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unusual facts about Juan del Grijalva, Chiapas



1995 Zapatista Crisis

Javier Elorriaga got captured on February 9, 1995, in a military garrison at Gabina Velázquez in Las Margaritas town and later taken to the Cerro Hueco prison in Tuxtla Gutiérrez Chiapas.

The country would be in a very dangerous spiral, which could lead to very serious situations because not only there is discomfort in Chiapas, but in many places in Mexico.

Amparanoia

A trip to Mexico late 2000 left its mark when she came into contact with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas.

Andrés de la Tovilla

He, along with Diego de Mazariegos, founded the City of “Villareal de Chiapa de los Españoles”, now San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, in 1528 as a regional base for the conquest of Guatemala.

Aviacsa

It operated its first flight on September 20, 1990, using one 89-seat British Aerospace 146 (BAe 146) regional aircraft between Mexico City and the cities of Tapachula, and Tuxtla Gutiérrez, both located in the state of Chiapas.

By the end of the year, the airline received a second BAe 146 and had initiated service from the two towns in Chiapas to Villahermosa, Mérida, Oaxaca, Chetumal, and Cancún.

Brent Berlin

In 1968, Berlin, Breedlove and Raven studied the botanical ethnography of the Tzeltal Maya people of Chiapas, Mexico.

Cándida Arias

Arias played in Chiapas, Mexico, with her National Senior Team, helping her team to win the 2010 Final Four Cup gold medal.

Caroline Gordon

She continued to write until crippled by a March 1, 1981, stroke in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, where she lived in her later years.

Ch'ol

Ch'ol people: an indigenous Maya people, from the Chiapas highlands of Mexico

Chiapa de Corzo

Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas - the modern township and municipality, central Chiapas, Mexico

Chiapas F.C.

On May 20, 2013 it was announced Chiapas Liga MX team Jaguares de Chiapas was sold and relocated to Querétaro, Mexico.

Chiapas Media Project

Native and non-native instructors from outside of Chiapas provide advanced production, post-production and computer training in the CMP Media Center in San Cristobal de las Casas.

Chimalapas territory conflict

Around the same time the governor of Chiapas, Juan Sabines Guerrero, publicly announced the creation of a new municipality in Chimalapas: Belisario Domínguez, which is now the basis of one of the most intense conflicts in the area.

Circolo Speleologico Romano

Since 1969 its research in Chiapas (southern Mexico) has been particularly relevant, where it has explored and surveyed more than 60 km of new caves.

Coffee borer beetle

In the late 1990s, the C. hyalinipennis native of North America was described as attacking the borer beetle in Chiapas, south of Mexico.

Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery

By 1859 he was based in Mexico, and in traveling from Chiapas to Mexico City he reported having been robbed of almost his entire fortune, estimated at $50,000.

Dahiana Burgos

She won the Most Valuable Player and Best Scorer awards, along with the gold medal playing in Chiapas, Mexico with her National Senior Team at the 2010 Final Four Cup.

Dr. Belisario Domínguez Municipality

It acquired its present name in 1935 in honour of Belisario Domínguez, a senator for Chiapas murdered during the Mexican Revolution.

Edgar Hernandez

Édgar Adolfo Hernández, Mexican pro footballer (GK) for team, Jaguares de Chiapas

Gary L. Howe

He has contributed much of his personal work to documenting and promoting Fair Trade coffee with images from Chiapas, Mexico, Bolivia and, most recently, Rwanda.

Global Press Institute

In 2006 she administered the first GPI training in Chiapas, Mexico, where five women were trained in the principles and practice of traditional investigative journalism.

Harris Whitbeck

Since joining CNN in 1991, Whitbeck has reported on worldwide events including the war in Iraq and its aftermath, the U.S. led war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the 2004 Haitian coup d'état, the rebellion in Chiapas, several papal visits to Latin America and the hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy in Lima.

Hurricane Stan

The Ministry of the Interior declared states of emergency in the worst hit municipalities of five states: Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz.

Isabel Bacardit

She meets Ofelia Medina and makes contact with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, where she becomes strongly influenced by elements of indigenous symbolism and spirituality.

Jaguares de Chiapas Reserves

Jaguares de Tapachula or Jaguares de Chiapas Filial was the feeder team of Mexican football club Chiapas.

Juan del Grijalva, Chiapas

It is part of the Municipality of Ostuacán and is located in the north end of the state on the banks of the Grijalva River, between the Peñitas Dam and the Malpaso Dam.

Karla Echenique

Playing in Chiapas, Mexico with her National Senior Team she won the 2010 Final Four Cup gold medal.

Leo Zelada

He passed the Andes, the Amazons, the Darien, the Caribbeans and Chiapas, and finally he arrived to Los Angeles, United States of America.

Loredana Cannata

Additionally, Cannata is president of "Sesto Sole" (6th Sun), an Italian charity organization that provides health related help to the indigenous population of the Chiapas.

Magnolia poasana

All specimens of M. poasana prior to 1972 were collected from Costa Rica, but since then samples have been collected in Chiapas, Mexico; in 1982 samples were also collected in Panama.

Mimosa tenuiflora

Mimosa hostilis (Jurema, Tepezcohuite) is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas).

New World Agriculture and Ecology Group

Cuba and Chiapas, Mexico are locations of other NWAEG projects, exemplifying the group's informal focus on Latin America.

Niverka Marte

As a setter, she helped the National Senior Team playing in Chiapas, Mexico, to win the 2010 Final Four Cup gold medal.

Ocelotes de la UNACH

The club was founded in 2002 when there were no professional football clubs in the state.The club plays in the town of Tapachula, Chiapas were they represent the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas

Omar Flores

Omar Alejandro Flores Serrano (born 6 May 1979 in Acapulco) is a Mexican professional football defender who currently plays for Chiapas in the Mexican Primera División.

Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía

On June 9, Carlos Loret de Mola, a reporter for the newspaper El Universal, published an article about a “secret” document delivered by an official from the current government of Chiapas to the residency of Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

Pacal

K'inich Janaab' Pakal, also known as Pacal the Great - 7th-century ruler of the pre-Columbian Maya site of Palenque, in what is now Chiapas, Mexico

Peter Orner

He has also worked as human rights observer in Chiapas, Mexico, a cab driver in Iowa City, and for the sewer department in Highland Park, Illinois where once he worked side by side with Chicago-based journalist and author of College: The Best Five Years of Your Life, Alex Gordon.

Regional Museum of Anthropology and History of Chiapas

It was originally painted in 1963 by Leonora Carrington for the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City but it was moved to Chiapas to its permanent home here.

Sierra del Lacandón

It is situated in the north-west of the department of El Petén and the south-east of Chiapas.

Toniná

Tonina (or Toniná in Spanish orthography) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site and ruined city of the Maya civilization located in what is now the Mexican state of Chiapas, some 13 km (8.1 mi) east of the town of Ocosingo.

Twelfth Federal Electoral District of Chiapas

The Twelfth District of Chiapas is located in the extreme south of the state and comprises the municipalities of Frontera Hidalgo, Metapa, Suchiate, Tuxtla Chico and three-quarters of the municipality of Tapachula

Vanceboro international bridge bombing

He found work at another plantation in Salto de Agua, Chiapas, but before he could leave he received a card telling him to return to Germany.

Women in the EZLN

The EZLN made its first appearance on the national and international scene with the seizing of San Cristóbal de las Casas as well as six other towns in Chiapas on January 1, 1994, which coincided with Mexico entering into the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Zenón Martínez García

He created at least eighteen different basic sets, from the most traditional to Mexicanized versions in Chiapan, Huichol or Aztec dress or with the addition of charros, campesinos and more.


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