Tuxtla Gutierrez

Tuxtla Gutierrez is a Mexican city and municipality, capital and biggest city middle of the nation of Chiapas. It is the seat of the general public government of the kingdom of Chiapas5 and middle of the Tuxtla Metropolitan Zone, which has been described as the integration of the municipalities of Chiapa de Corzo, Berriozabal, San Fernando, Suchiapa, Ocozocoautla de Espinosa and Osumacinta. Its city increase and economic improvement have expanded from the executive decentralization of the government, the appearance of national and overseas capital that attracted investments to the city and the growth of economic aid to nation improvement.

On the slopes of Cerro Mactumatza the native zoques founded a village with the name of Coyatoc which means in Zoque place, house or land of rabbits. In 1486 and 1505, the Aztecs began a struggle and with a small army attacked the agreement, destroyed Coyatoc and named it Tuchtlan. During the Spanish colonialism, in the location, the metropolis of Tuxtla become an area of rest earlier than arriving at Chiapa de los Indios, it become additionally a point of convergence for the merchants who came from Oaxaca, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche and Guatemala.