Amatenango del Valle

Amatenango del Valle is a small Mexican town that is positioned within the middle of the Mexican nation of Chiapas, it's miles the municipal head of the municipality of the same name, inside the administrative location II Altos.6 The name of Amatenango manner, in Nahuatl Fort or fortification of amates. The municipality is positioned within the Central Highlands of Chiapas, with most of the land being semi flat. It limits to the north with the municipality of Huixtan, to the south with Villa las Rosas and Venustiano Carranza, to the west with Teopisca and to the east with Chanal and Comitan de Dominguez.

It turned into founded by way of a set of Tzeltales, who firstly fashioned the metropolis, settled within the municipality at some stage in the conventional duration of the pre Columbian technology. In 1486 it turned into invaded by means of the Aztec troops commanded with the aid of Tiltototl, however have been rejected via the locals. After the conquest of the Chiapas in 1528 it is cited as a locality belonging to Teopisca. The Spanish missionaries settled within the region named San Francisco de Amatenango. The inhabitants of the municipality participated actively within the indigenous uprising of 1712 or the Caste War in Chiapas.