San Cristobal de las Casas

San Cristobal de Las Casas is a Mexican town, seat of the executive powers of the homonymous municipality within the State of Chiapas, Mexico. It is the largest city center in the area of Los Altos de Chiapas and the third most populated inside the country, at the back of Tuxtla Gutierrez and Tapachula. The populace of the town consistent with the 2010 INEGI census became 185,917 human beings, this being extra than 90% of the full population of the municipality.

The metropolis is located inside the place of Los Altos de Chiapas and is positioned at an altitude of extra than 2,2 hundred meters above sea degree. The temperatures within the region tend to be temperate and feature very plentiful rains in summer season and sporadic in iciness. The mountains surrounding the metropolis are covered with coniferous forests and cloud forests. The Captain General and Lieutenant Governor Diego de Mazariegos y Porres founds the Villa Real de Chiapa of Spanish beginning on March 31, 1528, after defeating the Zoques of the northern mountains and the Chiapanecas, and will become the capital of the province of Chiapas.