Chenalhó

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Chenalhó is a municipality in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, known as a traditional center of Tzotzil Maya culture and community life.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chenalhó canonical 3
Chenalhó (town) 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf municipality
administrativeDivisionOf Chiapas
administrativeLevel municipality-level division in Mexico
belongsToCulturalArea Mesoamerica
capital Chenalhó (town)
linked to: Chenalhó
climate temperate highland climate
country Mexico
countrySubdivisionCode MX-CHP
culturalHeritage Maya customs
Tzotzil traditions
culturalRegion Maya Highlands
linked to: Guatemala Highlands
demographicCharacteristic predominantly indigenous population
elevationCharacteristic highland
ethnicGroup Tzotzil Maya
linked to: Tzotzil
geographicFeature mountainous terrain
governingBody municipal council of Chenalhó
hasIndigenousLanguageMajority Tzotzil
hasIndigenousMajority yes
hasMunicipalGovernment ayuntamiento de Chenalhó
hasMunicipalSeat Chenalhó (town)
linked to: Chenalhó
hasOfficialLanguage Spanish
hasPostalCountry Mexico
knownFor Tzotzil Maya culture
indigenous community life
languageSpoken Spanish
Tzotzil
locatedIn Chiapas
Chiapas Highlands
Los Altos de Chiapas
locatedInTimeZone Central Standard Time
linked to: Central Time Zone
locatedOnContinent North America
partOf state of Chiapas
linked to: State of Chiapas
populationCharacteristic rural
region Los Altos region of Chiapas
religion Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism

Protestantism
indigenous Maya beliefs
settlementType municipality
subdivisionName Mexico
subdivisionName1 Chiapas
subdivisionType country
subdivisionType1 state
traditionalEconomicActivity coffee cultivation
maize cultivation
subsistence agriculture
uses Mexican peso
utcOffset −06:00
utcOffsetDst −05:00

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Referenced by (5)

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

Tzotzil people majorSettlement Chenalhó
Tzotzil spokenInMunicipality Chenalhó
Chenalhó capital Chenalhó (town)
linked to: Chenalhó
Chenalhó hasMunicipalSeat Chenalhó (town)
linked to: Chenalhó
Los Altos de Chiapas contains Chenalhó