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Chiapas is the southernmost state in Mexico, and it borders the states of Oaxaca to the west, Veracruz to the northwest, and Tabasco to the north, [10] and the Petén, Quiché, Huehuetenango, and San Marcos departments of Guatemala to the east and southeast. Chiapas has a significant coastline on the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.
Map of Mexico with Chiapas highlighted. Chiapas is a state in Southeast Mexico.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it has the eighth largest population of all states with 5,543,828 inhabitants and the 10th largest by land area spanning 73,560.47 square kilometres (28,401.86 sq mi).
The Chiapas conflict (Spanish: Conflicto de Chiapas) consisted of the 1994 Zapatista uprising, the 1995 Zapatista crisis, and the subsequent tension between the Mexican state, the indigenous peoples and subsistence farmers of Chiapas from the 1990s to the 2010s.
The Congress is the governmental deliberative body of Chiapas, which is equal to, and independent of, the executive. At present it is composed of an assembly of 40 deputies, 24 of whom are elected on a first-past-the-post basis, one for each district in which the entity is divided.
It was declared the provisional capital of Chiapas by forces loyal to Victoriano Huerta in 1924. [10] [12] The first air route to the city was established in 1929, connecting it with Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Mexico City. [10] Tapachula became a diocese separate from Chiapas in 1957 covering the entire Chiapas coast area. [9]
The Chiapas Highlands are in the central part of the state of Chiapas. They are part of the Central American highlands, which run from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico to central Nicaragua. [1] The Chiapas Highlands comprise a limestone mass with extrusive volcanic rocks at the highest peaks, covering over 11,000 km 2.
Federal electoral districts of Chiapas since 2022 Chiapas under the 2017–2022 districting scheme 2005–2017 fourth district shaded blue. The fourth federal electoral district of Chiapas (Distrito electoral federal 04 de Chiapas) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 13 such districts in the state of ...
The Spanish conquest of Chiapas [nb 1] was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Mesoamerican polities in the territory that is now incorporated into the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.