Chiapas | |||
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State | |||
Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas | |||
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Anthem: Himno a Chiapas | |||
State of Chiapas within Mexico |
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Coordinates: 16°25′N 92°25′W / 16.417°N 92.417°WCoordinates: 16°25′N 92°25′W / 16.417°N 92.417°W | |||
Country | Mexico | ||
Capital | Tuxtla Gutiérrez | ||
Largest City | Tuxtla Gutiérrez | ||
Municipalities | 118 | ||
Admission | September 14, 1824 | ||
Order | 19th | ||
Government | |||
• Governor | Manuel Velasco Coello | ||
• Senators |
Luis Armando Melgar Bravo Roberto Albores Gleason Zoé Robledo Arbulo |
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Area | |||
• Total | 73,311 km2 (28,306 sq mi) | ||
Ranked 10th | |||
Highest elevation | 4,080 m (13,390 ft) | ||
Population (2015) | |||
• Total | 5,217,908 | ||
• Rank | 7th | ||
• Density | 71/km2 (180/sq mi) | ||
• Density rank | 15th | ||
Demonym(s) | Chiapaneco (a) | ||
Time zone | CST (UTC-6) | ||
• Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) | ||
Postal code | 29 – 30 | ||
Area code | |||
ISO 3166 code | MX-CHP | ||
HDI | 0.667 Medium Ranked 32nd of 32 | ||
GDP | US$ 11,957,977.89 th | ||
Website | Government Web Site | ||
^ a. By the will of the people of Chiapas expressed by direct vote for incorporation into the Federation. |
^ a. By the will of the people of Chiapas expressed by direct vote for incorporation into the Federation.
Chiapas (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃjapas]), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the 31 states that, with the Federal District, make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 122 municipalities and its capital city is Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Other important population centers in Chiapas include Ocosingo, Tapachula, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Comitán and Arriaga. Located in Southwestern Mexico, it is the southernmost state, bordered by the states of Oaxaca to the west, Veracruz to the northwest and Tabasco to the north, and by the Petén, Quiché, Huehuetenango and San Marcos departments of Guatemala to the east and southeast. Chiapas has a coastline along the Pacific Ocean to the south.
In general, Chiapas has a humid, tropical climate. In the north, in the area bordering Tabasco, near Teapa, rainfall can average more than 3,000 mm (120 in) per year. In the past, natural vegetation at this region was lowland, tall perennial rainforest, but this vegetation has been destroyed almost completely to give way to agriculture and ranching. Rainfall decreases moving towards the Pacific Ocean, but it is still abundant enough to allow the farming of bananas and many other tropical crops near Tapachula. On the several parallel "sierras" or mountain ranges running along the center of Chiapas, climate can be quite temperate and foggy, allowing the development of cloud forests like those of the Reserva de la Biosfera el Triunfo, home to a handful of resplendent quetzals and horned guans.