Chiapas

Chiapas (), offeecially Free an Sovereign State o Chiapas (), is ane o the 31 states that, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. It is dividit in 118 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Tuxtla Gutierrez. Ither important ceeties in Chiapas include San Cristóbal de las Casas, Comitán, an Tapachula. Locatit in Soothwastren Mexico, it is the soothmaist State o Mexico. It is bordered bi the states o Tabasco tae the north, Veracruz tae the northwast an Oaxaca tae the wast. Tae the east Chiapas borders Guatemala, an tae the sooth the Paceefic Ocean.

Chiapas is hame tae the auncient Mayan ruins o Palenque, Yaxchilán, Bonampak, an Chinkultic. It is hame tae ane o the lairgest indigenous populations in the kintra wi twal federally recognizit ethnicities an aw. Hintle o the state’s history is centred on the subjugation o thir fowks wi occasional rebellions. The last o thir rebellions wis the 1994 Zapatista uprisin, which succeedit in obtainin new richts for indigenous fowk but dividit hintle o the indigenous fowks o the state an aw.

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  Chiapas State Govrenment

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