HISTORY OF CHIAPAS.

CHIAPAS officially called the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas is one of the thirty-two
states that make up the United Mexican States. It is divided into 124 municipalities and its
capital and most populated city is Tuxtla Gutierrez. Other important cities in the state
include Tapachula, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Comitán and Arriaga.
It is in the southwestern region of the country, bordered to the north by Tabasco, to the
east and southeast by the Guatemalan departments of Petén, Quiché, Huehuetenango and
San Marcos, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, to the west by Oaxaca and to the northwest
by Veracruz. With 5,217,908 inhabitants in 2015, it is the sixth most populated state, behind
the State of Mexico, Veracruz, Jalisco, Puebla and Guanajuato. It was founded on
September 14, 1824.
Important Mesoamerican cultures developed in the state during the pre-Columbian era.
Among them the Olmec, Mayan and Chiapaneca. Therefore, has several archaeological sites
of Mayan ruins and important tourist attractions such as the archaeological zone of
Palenque, Yaxchilán, Bonampak, Chinkultic and Toniná.7
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, widespread social inequality caused
by political disinterest, economic instability, and abuses of power against indigenous
peoples and rural communities was produced and strengthened, causing a latent conflict
until the last quarter of the twentieth century, which erupted in 1994 with the Zapatista
uprising led by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a conflict that remains unresolved
to this day.

HISTORY OF PALENQUE.
The city of Palenque was founded in 1567 by the Dominican friar Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada.
In the new locality, Fray Pedro Lorenzo integrated families of the Chol ethnic group, who
were living in a dispersed way in the Lacandon jungle.
Almost two hundred years passed from the foundation of the "modern" town of Otolún or
Palenque until 1740, when the priest Antonio Solís discovered the archaeological zone of
Palenque.
Sixty years later, on October 29, 1813, Palenque was declared Villa by decree issued by the
Cortes de Cádiz. On December 19, 1972, the then constitutional governor of the state of
Chiapas, Manuel Velasco Suárez, granted it the category of city.
The archaeological zone of Palenque was a great city of Mayan culture during the classical
period; its size is estimated at 7 km from east to west, which has not yet been fully explored.
Besides that it has the largest jungle in Mexico: "The Lacandon Jungle".
HISTORY OF CHIAPA DE CORZO.
Chiapa de Corzo is a small Mexican city located in the center of the state of Chiapas, in
southeastern Mexico. It is located 15 km from the center of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. It is the first
city established in the state and the first capital, and has a Parisian style in the squares of
its historic center.
It is the head of the municipality of Chiapa de Corzo, which is located in the Central
Depression of Chiapas. It is bordered on the north by Soyaló and Osumacinta, on the west
by Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Suchiapa and Villaflores, on the east by Zinacantán, Ixtapa and Acala,
and on the south by Villa Corzo.

HISTORY OF SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS.

San Cristóbal de Las Casas is a Mexican city, headquarters of the administrative powers of
the municipality of the same name in the State of Chiapas (Mexico). It is the largest urban
center in the region of Los Altos de Chiapas and the third most populated in the state,
behind Tuxtla Gutierrez and Tapachula.
The population of the city according to the 2010 INEGI census was 185,917 people, this
being more than 90% of the total population of the municipality. The city is located in the
region of Los Altos de Chiapas [appointment required] and is at an altitude of more than
2,200 meters above sea level. Temperatures in the region are usually temperate, with
abundant rainfall in summer and sporadic rainfall in winter. The mountains surrounding the
city are covered with coniferous forests and cloud forests.
The city was founded by the Spanish conquistador Diego de Mazariegos and a group of
settlers of diverse origins (Spaniards, Mexicas, Tlaxcaltecas and Mayas)[required
appointment] in 1528 with the name of Real City of the Spaniards, in lands that they
obtained after defeating victoriously the Tzotziles.