Chontalpa

Chontalpa is a place in the Mexican nation of Tabasco, which includes 4 municipalities within the northwest of the nation. Although the call refers to the country’s Chontal Maya populace, cutting-edge Chontalpa is a subregion of the Grijalva Region, and shaped with financial issues in thoughts. A large percent of the nation’s Chontal Maya populace does live here, with the municipality of Nacajuca having the biggest attention of indigenous, with the subsequent biggest attention observed just east of the place in the Villahermosa vicinity.

The subregion’s economic system is based on agriculture, especially farm animals manufacturing in addition to oil drilling, that have been at odds with every different due to severe degradation of the surroundings for the reason that mid twentieth century. Chontalpa is likewise domestic to Tabasco’s two predominant archeological websites, La Venta and Comalcalco, along side numerous smaller websites. The Chontalpa is formally a subregion of the Grijalva, that's described as lands in Tabasco reliant at the Grijalva River and associated surface water. It includes the municipalities of Huimanguillo, Cardenas, Comalcalco and Paraiso, with its capital as the city of Comalcalco.