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Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Chiapas

Chiapas is a state in the southeast of Mexico. Chiapas is bordered by the states of Tabasco to the north, Veracruz to the northwest, and Oaxaca to the west. To the east Chiapas borders Guatemala, and to the south the Pacific Ocean. Chiapas has an area of 73,887 km² (28,528 square miles). The 2003 population estimate was 4,224,800 people. The state capital city is Tuxtla Gutiérrez; other cities and towns in Chiapas include San Cristóbal de las Casas, Comitán, and Tapachula. Chiapas is also home to the ancient Maya ruins of Palenque ...

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Chiapas: Encyclopedia II - Chiapas - History of Chiapas In Pre-Columbian times Chiapas was part of the heartland of the Maya civilization. Chiapas was conquered by Spain in the early 16th century, and became part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, administered as part of the "Kingdom of Guatemala" (what is now Central America), administered from Antigua Guatemala. When Central America achieved its independence from Mexico in 1823, western Chiapas was annexed to Mexico. More of current day Chiapas was transferred after the disintegration of the Central American Federation in 1842, and the remainder of the current state taken from Guatemala i ...

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Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Yaxchilan

Yaxchilan (also sometimes historically referred to by the names Menché and City Lorillard in honor of Pierre Lorillard who contributed to defray the expense of an expedition into the Maya zone) is an ancient Maya city located on the Usumacinta River in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The ancient name for the city may have been Izancanac. Yaxchilan means Green Stones in Maya. Yaxchilan - Ancient Yaxchilan. detail of a carved lintel
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Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Cempasúchil

The Mexican marigold is a species of the genus Tagetes native to Mexico and Central America. In Mexico, this plant is found in the states of San Luis Potosí, Chiapas, State of México, Puebla, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala and Veracruz. This plant reaches heights of between 50 and 100 cm. Its flower, the cempasúchil is also called the Flower of the Dead in Mexico ("Flor de Muertos") and is used in the Día de los Muertos celebration, every November 2nd. Since prehispanic times, this plant has had medicinal purposes and it is thought to cure stomach ache, parasites, diarrhea, liver illnesses, v ...

Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Central America

Commonly, Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. Some geographers classify Central America as a large isthmus, and in this geographic sense it sometimes includes the portion of Mexico east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, namely the Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo. However, Central America is much more commonly understood to co ...

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Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Veracruz

The state of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave is one of the 31 states that compose Mexico (does not include the Mexican Federal District). It is located in the east central part of the country, between 17°10' and 22°38' North and between 93°55' and 98°38' West. It has a mainland area of 72,815 km² and includes several islands in the Gulf of Mexico totalling another 58 km². Veracruz borders the states of Tamaulipas to the north, Oaxaca and Chiapas to the south, Tabasco to the southeast, Puebla, Hidalgo, and San Luis Potosi t ...

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Veracruz - Municipalities

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Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Bonampak

Bonampak is an ancient Maya site in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, about 30km (20 miles) south of the larger site of Yaxchilan and the border with Guatemala. It is small Maya site, which was a dependency of Yaxchilan. All of the structures seem to have been built in the period from about 580 to 800. Bonampak was rediscovered in 1946 by photographer Giles Healy, who was led to it by the nomadic Lacandon Maya who still visited the site to pray in the ancient temples. Bonampak contains several medium-sized temples around a plaza, along with a few well carved stelae, but is ...

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Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bartolomé de Las Casas, O.P. (1484 – July 17, 1566) was a 16th century Spanish priest, and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World, he was galvanized by witnessing the brutal torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. He became famous for his advocacy of the rights of Native Americans, whose cultures especially in the Caribbean he describes with care. His first hand interpretations of Taíno cultures as feudal have been criticized 500 years later by Marx-influenced historians ...

Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Usumacinta River

The Usumacinta River in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala, formed by the junction of the Pasión River, which arises in the Sierra de Santa Cruz (in Guatemala) and the Salinas River, also known as the Chixoy, or the Negro, which descends from the Sierra Madre de Guatemala, defines part of the border between the Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala. It then continues its northwesterly course, meandering through the Mexican state of Tabasco to the Gulf of Mexico. This river is the northwestern boundary line between Guatemala and Mexico. It is also the only visible natural ...

Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Chinkultic

Chinkultic is a moderate-size archeological ruin in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico, some 56km from the small modern city of Comitán. The Pre-Columbian city was built by the Maya civilization. The city flourished in the Maya Classic Era, from about the 3rd through the 9th century. Most of the sculpture was produced in the last 300 years of this era, with heiroglphic inscriptions dating from 591 to 897. Post-Classic-Era occupation of the site continued until the 13th century, after which it was abandoned. The site has some step-pyramids and some 200 smaller buildings, most in undisturbed ruin. Chinkultic has ...

Chiapas: Encyclopedia - 1994

1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. 1994 - Events. January 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 1 - Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins war in Chiapas, Mexico January 1 - Bantustans join South Africa January 6 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival ...

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Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Zapatista Army of National Liberation

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is an armed revolutionary group based in Chiapas, one of the poorest states of Mexico. Their social base is mostly indigenous but they have supporters in urban areas as well as an international web of support. Their most visible leader by far is Subcommander Marcos. Some consider the Zapatista movement the first post-modern revolution: an armed yet non-violent revolutionary group that incorporates modern technologi ...

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Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Zarahemla

According to the Book of Mormon, the Land of Zarahemla (popularly attributed to Biblical Hebrew זֶרַע־חֶמְלָה Zéraʻ-ḥemlāh "seed of compassion") was the Nephite capital for many years, and it was discovered by Mosiah sometime between 323 and 130 B.C. Its original inhabitants were Jews who went out from Jerusalem at the time of Zedekiah, the la ...

Chiapas: Encyclopedia - Maya civilization

Archaeological evidence shows the Maya had started to build ceremonial architecture by approximately 1000 BCE. There is some disagreement about the boundaries which differentiate the physical and cultural extent of the early Maya and their neighboring Pre-Classic Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Olmec culture of the Tabasco lowlands and the Mixe-Zoque– and Zapotec–speaking peoples of Chiapas and southern Oaxaca. Many of the earliest significant inscriptions and buildings appeared in thi ...

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Maya civilization - Writing and literacy

Maya civilization - Reference

Chiapas: Encyclopedia - 1824 Constitution of Mexico

The 1824 Constitution was the first full constitution adopted by the Mexican Republic. Enacted on 4 October 1824, following the overthrow of the short-lived Mexican Empire of Iturbide, the constitution stated that the new republic was to be styled the "United Mexican States" and was to be a representative federal republic of the people, with Roman Catholicism as the state religion. Congress was bicameral, with a Chamber of Deputies (one deputy per 80,000 inhabitants) and a Senate (two senators per state). A president and ...

Chiapas: Encyclopedia II - Himno a Chiapas - Lyrics

¡Compatriotas, que Chiapas levante una oliva de paz inmortal, y marchando con paso gigante a la gloria camine triunfal! Chorus Countrymen, may Chiapas raise an olive of immortal peace, and marching with giant steps to the glory and walk triumphant! Estrofa I Cesen ya de la angustia y las penas los momentos de triste sufrir; que retomen las horas serenas que prometen feliz porvenir. Que se olvide la odiosa venganza; que termine por siempre el rencor; que una sea nuestra hermosa esperanza ...

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