Las Margaritas is a city, and the surrounding
municipality
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of the same name, in the
Mexican state of
Chiapas. The municipal seat is located some 25 km to the northeast of
Comitán de Domínguez, while the municipality extends to the east as far as the
border with Guatemala. Part of the
Lagunas de Montebello National Park
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is in the municipality's territory.
Demographics
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 111,484,
As of 2010, the city of Las Margaritas had a population of 20,786.
[ Other than the city of Las Margaritas, the municipality had 486 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Plan de Ayala (3,164), classified as urban, and Veinte de Noviembre (2,207), Jalisco (1,915), Yasha (1,862), Chiapas (1,808), Nuevo San Juan Chamula (El Pacayal) (1,684), Bajucú (1,665), ]Francisco I. Madero
Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and statesman, who became the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in a coup d'etat in February 1 ...
(1,626), Justo Sierra (San Francisco) (1,386), El Edén (1,283), Saltillo (1,222), El Vergel (1,177), Rafael Ramírez (1,075), Veracruz
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(1,062), Lomantán (1,034), and El Progreso
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Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport of San Pedro Sula is located west of the city. To the eas ...
(1,007), classified as rural.[
]
History
The municipality was created and the settlement given the status of a ''pueblo'' (village) on 9 December 1871, by Governor
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José Pantaleón Domínguez. On 24 March 1981, under Governor Juan Sabines Gutiérrez, the municipal seat was given city ''(ciudad)'' status.
In January 1994 it was one of the cities seized by the Zapatista National Liberation Army
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (, EZLN), often referred to as the Zapatistas (Mexican ), is a far-left political and militant group that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.
Since ...
(EZLN) during their uprising. The village of La Realidad, headquarters of the EZLN military command, is located in the municipality.
Geography
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*1,521 metres above sea level
*Postal code: 30187
*LADA area code: 963
Media
*XEVFS
XEVFS-AM (''La Voz de la Frontera Sur'' – "The Voice of the Southern Border") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Tojolabal, Mam, Tseltal, Tsotsil and Popti (otherwise known as Jakaltek) from Las Margar ...
, a government-run indigenous
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*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
*Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band
*Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...
community radio
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station.
References
Las Margaritas
''(Enciclopedia de los municipios de México)''
External links
Las Margaritas
{{Authority control
Municipalities of Chiapas