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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 villascán
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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] 4:7[Non-official proportions]
[Defacto flag]
[One or more variants under the same basic design]
by António Martins, October 06, 2001.
See: Coat of arms of white bakground: unofficial flags


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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: Cañón (Canyon) del Sumidero, Sierra (mountains) del Soconusco; and archeological ruins: Palenque, Bonampak, Copanaguastla, Yaxchilán, Chinkultic, Tuxtla Chico, Toniná, Izapa, Hun Chavin, among many others. Mostly of its population is made up by indigenous people: Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolabal, Chol, Lacandón, 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 Gutiérrez (Pop.: 434,143 [2000])
Statehood: February 5, 1917
Arms adopted: Unknown date.

INEGI and SEP
Reported by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 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] 4:7[Non-official proportions]
[State flag]
[One or more variants under the same basic design]
by António 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