Altamirano, Chiapas

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Altamirano, Chiapas is a rural municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas known for its indigenous communities and cultural ties to the Tojolabal Maya people.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Altamirano (town) 2
Altamirano, Chiapas canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf municipality
borderedBy Chanal, Chiapas
Huixtán, Chiapas
Las Margaritas, Chiapas
Ocosingo, Chiapas
linked to: Ocosingo

Oxchuc, Chiapas
linked to: Oxchuc

Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas
country Mexico
ethnicGroup Tojolabal Maya
Tzeltal Maya
Tzotzil Maya
linked to: Tzotzil
governmentType municipal government
hasCapital Altamirano (town)
linked to: Altamirano, Chiapas
hasClimate tropical climate
hasCulturalAssociation Maya traditions
Tojolabal Maya culture
hasDemographicFeature high proportion of speakers of indigenous languages
hasEconomicActivity coffee cultivation
livestock raising
subsistence agriculture
hasEducationCharacteristic limited access to higher education
hasHealthCareCharacteristic limited health services
hasHistoricalEventAssociation Zapatista movement in Chiapas
hasHumanDevelopmentLevel low to medium
hasIndigenousGovernance traditional community assemblies
hasIndigenousLanguage Tojolabal
Tzeltal
linked to: Tzeltal language

Tzotzil
hasInfrastructureCharacteristic predominantly unpaved rural roads
hasMunicipalSeat Altamirano (town)
linked to: Altamirano, Chiapas
hasPopulationCharacteristic predominantly rural
significant indigenous population
hasPostalSystem Mexican postal service
hasReligiousPractice Catholicism
Evangelical Christianity
linked to: Evangelicalism

syncretic Maya-Catholic practices
hasRuralLocalities multiple indigenous communities
hasTopography mountainous and hilly terrain
legalSystem Mexican law
locatedIn Chiapas
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory State of Chiapas
locatedInGeographicalRegion southeastern Mexico
locatedInTimeZone Central Standard Time
linked to: Central Time Zone
locatedOnContinent North America
officialLanguage Spanish
partOf Los Altos region of Chiapas
municipalities of Chiapas
subdivisionType municipality of Chiapas
usesCurrency Mexican peso

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tojolabal spokenInMunicipality Altamirano, Chiapas
Altamirano, Chiapas hasCapital Altamirano (town)
linked to: Altamirano, Chiapas
Altamirano, Chiapas hasMunicipalSeat Altamirano (town)
linked to: Altamirano, Chiapas