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    The Chiapas Highlands, also known as the Central Highlands of Chiapas or Chiapas Plateau (Spanish: Los Altos de Chiapas), is a geographic, sociocultural...
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    to the south is the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and in central Chiapas are the Montañas Centrales (Central Highlands). They are separated by the Depresion...
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    Chiapas (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃjapas] ; Nahuatl Chiapan), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de...
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    Highlands region of the Mexican state of Chiapas. It was the capital of the state until 1892, and is still considered the cultural capital of Chiapas...
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  • 2021 Pantelhó mass kidnapping (category Chiapas)
    Pantelhó, Chiapas Highlands Pantelhó, Chiapas Highlands (Chiapas) The name 2021 Pantelhó mass kidnapping refers to events that occurred on 26 July 2021...
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  • Mexican state of Chiapas. The region is physically diverse, featuring a number of highland areas, including the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and the Montañas...
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    River valley of the Chiapas highlands, Chiapa de Corzo lies some 15 km (9.3 mi) to the east of the state capital, Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Chiapa has been occupied...
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    Comitán (redirect from Comitan, Chiapas)
    Mexican state of Chiapas. It is the seat of government of the municipality of the same name. It is located in the east-central part of Chiapas, near the border...
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    Tzotzil (category Chiapas Highlands)
    The Tzotzil are an Indigenous Maya people of the central highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. As of 2000, they numbered about 298,000. The municipalities with...
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    The Guatemalan Highlands is an upland region in southern Guatemala which lies between the Sierra Madre de Chiapas to the south and the Petén lowlands to...
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    highlands of Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas. The topography, climate, and soil fertility of the highlands can vary dramatically. In central and western...
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  • Francisco Núñez de la Vega, Bishop of Chiapas. According to Francisco Javier Clavijero: F. Núñez de la Vega, bishop of Chiapa, says, in the preface to his Synodal...
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    northeastern slopes of the Chiapas Highlands. The Chiapas montane forests lie on the northern and northeastern slopes of the Chiapas highlands, between the lowland...
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    is spoken today. The earliest proposal which identified the Chiapas-Guatemalan highlands as the likely "cradle" of Mayan languages was published by the...
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    of highlands and depressions, including the Chiapas Depression, which separates the Sierra Madre from the Chiapas Plateau, the Guatemalan Highlands, and...
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    central Chiapas Depression, which lies between the Chiapas Highlands on the north and the Sierra Madre de Chiapas to the south. The Chiapas Depression...
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    Quercus acutifolia (category Flora of the Chiapas Highlands)
    Quercus acutifolia, many synonyms including Quercus conspersa, is a species of oak tree. It is native to central and southern Mexico and northern Central...
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    Disocactus ackermannii (category Flora of the Chiapas Highlands)
    states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz in southern Mexico. It inhabits cloud forests in the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca and Chiapas Highlands between...
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    1942 Mexico. Western ribbon snake, Thamnophis proximus (Say, 1823) Chiapas Highlands ribbon snake, T. p. alpinus Rossman, 1963 Arid land ribbon snake,...
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  • Chʼol people (category Chiapas)
    an Indigenous people of Mexico, mainly in the northern Chiapas highlands in the state of Chiapas. As one of the Maya peoples, their indigenous language...
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    Quercus polymorpha (category Flora of the Chiapas Highlands)
    the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre de Oaxaca ranges, the Chiapas Highlands of southeastern Mexico, and scattered locations on the Mexican Plateau...
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    Taxus globosa (category Flora of the Chiapas Highlands)
    Taxus globosa, the Mexican yew, is an evergreen shrub and one of the eight species of yew. The Mexican yew is a rare species, only known to be found in...
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  • population left behind after the Huastec people's migration north from the Chiapas highlands region, or alternatively represented a return of a Huastec subgroup...
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    competed with one another. Toniná, in the Chiapas highlands, and Kaminaljuyú in the central Guatemala highlands, were important southern highland Maya centers...
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  • modern inhabitants of Chiapas by that name) controlled territory along the tributaries of the Usumacinta River spanning eastern Chiapas and southwestern Petén...
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    Quercus insignis (category Flora of the Chiapas Highlands)
    Belt above Xalapa in Veracruz, and the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and Chiapas Highlands in Chiapas. In Central America, its range includes the Maya Mountains...
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    Quercus skinneri (category Flora of the Chiapas Highlands)
    coastal Sierra de los Tuxtlas of Veracruz and the Chiapas Highlands and Sierra Madre de Chiapas of Chiapas, and scattered sites in the eastern Sierra Madre...
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    Salix bonplandiana (category Flora of the Chiapas Highlands)
    Salix bonplandiana (Bonpland willow), (Spanish: ahuejote, sauce, ahujote, and huejote), is a perennial species of willow tree native to southern and southwest...
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    Arqueológico Los Horcones (PALH): La presencia teotihuacana el la Costa de Chiapas" (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología...
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    municipios de Chiapas" [Mobilized more than 40 thousand zapatistas in 5 municipalities of Chiapas] (in Spanish). No. 10194. Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico: La...
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