Chiapas (state)

Chiapas
State
Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Himno a Chiapas
State of Chiapas within Mexico
Coordinates: 16°25′N 92°25′W / 16.417°N 92.417°W / 16.417; -92.417Coordinates: 16°25′N 92°25′W / 16.417°N 92.417°W / 16.417; -92.417
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
• Deputies	Federal Deputies • Lourdes Adriana López Moreno • Pedro Gómez Gómez • Amilcar Augusto Villafuerte Trujillo • Harvey Gutiérrez Álvarez • Luis Gómez Gómez • Williams Oswaldo Ochoa Gallegos • Francisco Grajales Palacios • Oscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar • María del Rosario de Fátima Pariente Gavito • Héctor Narcia Álvarez • Hugo Mauricio Pérez Anzueto • Antonio de Jesús Díaz Athié
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	Area codes • 916 • 917 • 918 • 919 • 932 • 934 • 961 • 962 • 963 • 964 • 965 • 966 • 967 • 968 • 992 • 994
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. ^ b. The state's GDP was 153,062,117 thousand of pesos in 2008, amount corresponding to 11,957,977.89 thousand of dollars, being a dollar worth 12.80 pesos (value of June 3, 2010).

^ 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.

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