Jalpa de Méndez Municipality is a municipality in Tabasco in south-eastern Mexico.The seat is at Jalpa de Méndez. The municipality of Jalpa de Méndez makes up part of the Grijalva River region of the state and the Chontalpa sub-region. It borders the municipalities of Paraíso, Centla, Cunduacán, Nacajuca and Comalcalco. There are 64 active communities in the municipality, with a population of 83,356 in 2010, up from 72,969 in 2005, with a count of 19,630 residences in 2010. It is considered to be one of the Chontal Maya areas of the state of Tabasco, but only 396 people speak an indigenous language, and about half of those speak Zapotec.The munici...
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