The Chiapas Highlands, also known as the Central Highlands of Chiapas or Chiapas Plateau (Spanish: Los Altos de Chiapas), is a geographic, sociocultural and administrative region located in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.
The ChiapasHighlands, also known as the Central Highlands of Chiapas or Chiapas Plateau (Spanish: Los Altos de Chiapas), is a geographic, sociocultural...
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...
Chiapas (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃjapas] ; Tzotzil and Tzeltal: Chyapas [ˈtʃʰjapʰas]), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Spanish:...
Mexican state of Chiapas. The region is physically diverse, featuring a number of highland areas, including the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and the Montañas...
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...
The Guatemalan Highlands is an upland region in southern Guatemala, lying between the Sierra Madre de Chiapas to the south and the Petén lowlands to the...
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...
states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz in southern Mexico. It inhabits cloud forests in the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca and ChiapasHighlands between...
is spoken today. The earliest proposal which identified the Chiapas-Guatemalan highlands as the likely "cradle" of Mayan languages was published by the...
the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre de Oaxaca ranges, the ChiapasHighlands of southeastern Mexico, and scattered locations on the Mexican Plateau...
of highlands and depressions, including the Chiapas Depression, which separates the Sierra Madre from the Chiapas Plateau, the Guatemalan Highlands, and...
of waterfalls found on the Xanil River in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. They are located in the Municipality of Tumbalá, 69 kilometres (43 mi)...
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...
municipios de Chiapas" [Mobilized more than 40 thousand zapatistas in 5 municipalities of Chiapas] (in Spanish). No. 10194. Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico: La...
population left behind after the Huastec people's migration north from the Chiapashighlands region, or alternatively represented a return of a Huastec subgroup...
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...
The Tzeltal are a Maya people of Mexico, who chiefly reside in the highlands of Chiapas. The Tzeltal language belongs to the Tzeltalan subgroup of Maya languages...
Salix bonplandiana (Bonpland willow), (Spanish: ahuejote, sauce, ahujote, and huejote), is a perennial species of willow tree native to southern and southwest...
including the nominate subspecies. T. p. alpinus Rossman, 1963 – ChiapasHighlands ribbon snake T. p. diabolicus Rossman, 1963 – arid land ribbon snake...
northeastern slopes of the ChiapasHighlands. The Chiapas montane forests lie on the northern and northeastern slopes of the Chiapashighlands, between the lowland...
modern inhabitants of Chiapas by that name) controlled territory along the tributaries of the Usumacinta River spanning eastern Chiapas and southwestern Petén...
stretches from Chiapas, Mexico, into Guatemala. The heart of this rainforest is located in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas near the border...
Quercus acutifolia, many synonyms including Quercus conspersa, is a species of oak tree. It is native to central and southern Mexico and northern Central...
endemic to the ChiapasHighlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Magnolia faustinomirandae is found only in the municipality of Jitotol, Chiapas. Its known extent...
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