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Chiapas, Mexico
Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas / Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas
Last modified: 2003-08-09 by juan manuel gabino villasc�n
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Note: Chiapas has no official flag, but one in white charged with the coat of arms is broadly used:
![[Chiapas unofficial white flag]](../images/m/mx-chi!w.gif)
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4:7![[Non-official proportions]](../misc/_~~.gif){kind=small} ![[Defacto flag]](../misc/fis_defa.gif){kind=small} ![[One or more variants under the same basic design]](../misc/fis_vari.gif){kind=small}
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| by Ant�nio Martins, October 06, 2001. | |
| See: Coat of arms of white bakground: unofficial flags |
See:
- Mexico: Indigenous and Guerrilla warfare movements
- Mexican states
- Clickable map of mexican states
- Mexico
- Official web page of Chiapas
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villasc�n October 9, 2001
Presentation of Chiapas:
| Official name: | Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas / Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas |
| Short-form names: | Estado de Chiapas / State of Chiapas; Chiapas. |
| Location: | Chiapas is the southern most Mexican state. It is
one of the richest in Mexico due its natural resources: forest, mining,
rivers, fishering. etc. Chiapas is featured because its wonderful landscapes:
Ca��n (Canyon) del Sumidero, Sierra (mountains) del Soconusco; and
archeological ruins: Palenque, Bonampak, Copanaguastla, Yaxchil�n,
Chinkultic, Tuxtla Chico, Tonin�, Izapa, Hun Chavin, among many others.
Mostly of its population is made up by indigenous people: Tzeltal, Tzotzil,
Tojolabal, Chol, Lacand�n, Itza, amd Mame, among many others. Chiapas lays the Pacific Ocean (SW), and borders the states of Tabasco (N), Veracruz-Llave (NW), and Oaxaca (W); and Guatemala (SE) |
| Area: | 73,724 km2 |
| Municipalities: | 119 |
| Population: | 3'920,892 inhabitants (2000) |
| Capital: | Tuxtla Guti�rrez (Pop.: 434,143 [2000]) |
| Statehood: | February 5, 1917 |
| Arms adopted: | Unknown date. |
INEGI and SEP
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villasc�n, March 23, 2002.
Coat of arms of Chiapas
The coat of arms consists of a an "iberian" shield (round
pointed with parallel sides and flat top), gules (sky), a mountain
landscape showing a river canyon; on the sinister side of it, a lion or
facing dexter, rampant against a palm tree; on the the dexter side, another
lion of the same, rampant against something (what?) also or. Ducal (?)
crown or, with red gems.
António Martins, 22 Jun 1999
Chiapas government flag
![[Chiapas unofficial horizontal tricolor flag]](../images/m/mx-chi!h.gif)
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4:7![[State flag]](../misc/xoxxxx.gif){kind=small}
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| by Ant�nio Martins, October 06, 2001. |
Some time ago the Chiapas governor gave his opening
speech on a theatre ornamented with horizontally stripped
green - white - red banners charged with the state coat
of arms.
Luís Havas, 22 Jun 1999