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Chiapas is a state in the southeast of Mexico. Chiapas is bordered by the states of Tabasco to the north, VeracruzMexican states : Veracruz is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. This article is about the state. For the city, see Veracruz. ESTADO DE VERACRUZ Other Mexican States Capital Xalapa Other major cities Veracruz Coatzacoalcos Area71,699 km² Ranked 11th to the northwest, and OaxacaMexican states Oaxaca is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. This article is about the state. For the city, see: Oaxaca''. ESTADO DE OAXACA Other Mexican States Capital Oaxaca Other major cities Salina Cruz Area93,952 km² Ranked 5th Population(2000 to the west. To the east Chiapas borders GuatemalaFor the city, see Guatemala City. The Republic of Guatemala is a country in Central America, in the south of the continent of North America, bordering both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, Belize to the north, and to the south the Pacific OceanFor other meanings of pacific see pacific (disambiguation). The Pacific Ocean (from the Spanish Pacifico meaning peaceful is the world's largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179. 7 million km² (69. 4 mill.

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The state capital city is Tuxtla Gutiérrez; other cities and towns in Chiapas include San Cristóbal de las Casas, ComitánComitan (formally: Comitan de Dominguez is a small city in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is the seat of government of the municipality of the same name. It is located near the border with Guatemala at 16. In 2003 the estimated population was 75,600 peo, and Tapachula. Chiapas is also home to the ancient Maya ruins of Palenque, Yaxchilan, Bonampak, Chinkultic, and Tonina.

Many of the people in Chiapas are poor, rural small farmers. About one third of the population are of full or predominantly Maya descent, and in rural areas many do not speak Spanish. The state suffers from the highest rate of malnutrition in Mexico, estimated to affect over 40% of the population.

1 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 sized after the disintegration of the Central American Federation in 1842, and the remainder of the current state taken from Guatemala in the early 1880s by President Porfirio Díaz.

Chiapas remained one of the parts of Mexico least affected by change, with the descendants of the Spanish continuing to exercise much control over the native indians through such institutions as debt peonage, despite attempts by the central Mexican government to abolish such practices.

In 1868 there was an armed native rebellion, led by the Tzotil Maya, that almost succeeded in taking San Cristóbal, then the state capital, before it was suppressed by the Mexican army.

Some people in Chiapas felt that their poor and largely agricultural area had been largely ignored by the Mexican government for a long time. One of the chief complaints was that many Indian farmers were required to pay absentee landlords, despite the fact that since the 1920s the Mexican government had been promising the peasants ownership of the land they had farmed and lived on for generations. Such dissatisfaction led to the rise of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Zapatistas, or EZLN), which began an armed rebellion against the Mexican government in 1994. The Zapatistas were only marginally successful militarily, but they and their appointed spokesperson, Subcomandante Marcos, succeeded in attracting sympathy both in Mexico and overseas.

2 Municipalities

See: Municipalities of Chiapas

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