Chiapas
Chiapas is a state in southern Mexico. It is a large state with remote archaeological sites deep in the jungle, national parks with sparkling mountain lakes, deep canyons, and spectacular waterfalls.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Palenque
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Located in Chiapas, the Mayan ruined city of Palenque stands out as one of the most beautiful and tourist-friendly of the Mayan cities.
Tuxtla Gutiérrez
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Tuxtla Gutiérrez, usually just called Tuxtla, is the capital of Chiapas, and a busy government, commercial and services-oriented city.
Destinations
Tapachula
Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez or simply Tapachula is a city of 320,000 people in Chiapas.Yaxchilan
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Yaxchilán is an archaeological site in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.
Bonampak
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Bonampak is a Mayan archaeological site in the southern state of Chiapas in Mexico.
Cañón del Sumidero
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Cañón del Sumidero is in Chiapas, just east of Tuxtla Gutierrez.
San Juan Chamula
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San Juan Chamula is a town in Chiapas. San Juan Chamula is the main town of the indigenous Chamula people who live in the area.
Izapa
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Izapa is one of the oldest Mayan sites in Mexico. It is located northeast of Tapachula in Chiapas, Mexico, near the Guatemala border.
Chiapa de Corzo
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Chiapa de Corzo is a small city in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas.
Catazajá
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Catazajá is a small and sleepy village of 17,000 people in Chiapas, Mexico close to Palenque.
Ocosingo
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Ocosingo is a city of 48,000 people in Chiapas. Ocosingo is also known as the "Gateway to the Lacandon Jungle", and has several archaeological sites.
Lagunas de Montebello National Park
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Lagunas de Montebello National Park is in Chiapas in the southern part of Mexico, near the border with Guatemala.
Boca del Cielo
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Boca del Cielo is one of two small beach towns at either end of the Laguna de Joya on the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico.
Chiapas
- Type: State with 5,540,000 residents
- Description: state of Mexico
- Neighbors: Oaxaca, Tabasco and Veracruz
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude of centre
16.5° or 16° 30' northLongitude of centre
-92.5° or 92° 30' westPopulation
5,540,000Elevation
1,365 metres (4,478 feet)Abbreviation
CHPAbbreviation
ChisOpenStreetMap ID
node 305626894OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3531011Wikidata ID
Q60123Chiapas Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Chiapas
- Arabic: Chiapas
- Arabic: تشياباس
- Arabic: ولاية تشياباس
- Aragonese: Chiapas
- Aragonese: Estato de Chiapas
- Armenian: Չիապաս
- Armenian: Չյապաս
- Asturian: Chiapas
- Aymara: Chiapas Istadu
- Basque: Chiapas
- Belarusian: Ч'япас
- Belarusian: Ч’япас
- Belarusian: штат Ч'япас
- Bengali: চিয়াপাস
- Bosnian: Chiapas
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- Bulgarian: Чиапас
- Catalan: Chiapas
- Catalan: Estat de Chiapas
- Cebuano: Estado de Chiapas
- Chechen: Чьяпас
- Cheyenne: Chiapas
- Chinese: Chiapas Chiu
- Chinese: 恰帕斯
- Chinese: 恰帕斯州
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- Esperanto: Ĉiapaso
- Esperanto: Ĉiapo
- Estonian: Chiapas
- Estonian: Chiapase osariik
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- French: Chiapas
- French: État de Chiapas
- Galician: Chiapas
- Galician: Estado de Chiapas
- Georgian: ჩიაპასი
- German: Chiapas
- Greek: Τσιάπας
- Gujarati: ચીઆપાસ
- Hebrew: צ'יאפס
- Hebrew: צ'יאפס בפנורמה הלאומית
- Hindi: चियापास
- Hungarian: Chiapas
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- Japanese: チアパス
- Japanese: チアパス州
- Japanese: チャパス州
- Kannada: ಚಿಯಾಪಾಸ್
- Korean: 치아파스
- Korean: 치아파스 주
- Korean: 치아파스주
- Kurdish: Chiapas
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- Latin: Chiapa
- Latin: Chiapae
- Latvian: Čjapasa
- Lithuanian: Čiapas
- Lithuanian: Čiapasas
- Lithuanian: Čiapaso valstija
- Macedonian: Чијапас
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- Malay: Chiapas
- Marathi: चियापास
- Marathi: च्यापास
- Mazanderani: چیاپاس
- Min Nan Chinese: Chiapas Chiu
- Northern Frisian: Chiapas (Bundesstoot)
- Northern Frisian: Chiapas
- Northern Sami: Chiapas
- Norwegian: Chiapas
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- Occitan (post 1500): Chiapas
- Ossetian: Чьяпас
- Pampanga: Chiapas
- Persian: چیاپاس
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- Portuguese: Chiapas
- Portuguese: Estado de Chiapas
- Quechua: Chiapas suyu
- Romanian: Chiapas
- Romansh: Chiapas
- Russian: Чиапас
- Russian: Чьяпас (Мексика)
- Russian: Чьяпас
- Russian: штат Чьяпас
- Sardinian: Chiapas
- Sardinian: Tziapas
- Scots: Chiapas
- Serbian: Chiapas
- Serbian: Estado de Chiapas
- Serbian: Држава Чиапас
- Serbian: Чиапас
- Serbian: Чијапас
- Serbo-Croatian: Chiapas
- Serbo-Croatian: Čijapas
- Serbo-Croatian: Čjapas
- Sinhala: චියපාස්
- Skolt Sami: Chiapas
- Slovak: Chiapas
- Spanish: Chiapas
- Spanish: Estado de Chiapas
- Swahili: Chiapas
- Swedish: Chiapas
- Tagalog: Chiapas
- Tajik: Чяпас
- Tamil: சியாபாஸ்
- Tatar: Чьяпас
- Telugu: చియాపస్
- Thai: Chiapas
- Thai: Chiapaz
- Thai: รัฐเชียปัส
- Turkish: Chiapas
- Ukrainian: Чьяпас
- Ukrainian: Чіапас
- Urdu: چیاپاس
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- Waray (Philippines): Chiapas
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- Western Panjabi: چیاپاز
- Wu Chinese: 恰帕斯州
- Yue Chinese: 恰帕斯州
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