Altamirano, Chiapas

Altamirano (formerly, San Carlos, Villa Enríquez, and Enríquez) is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The municipality, covering an area of 1120 km2, has a population of 21,948. Its municipal seat is the town of Altamirano, Chiapas (population 6,155). In 1806, the population of San Antonio and San Vicente applied to the parish of Ocosingo, for the funds to build a new town and elected a place near Nacashlan, some 30 km south of Comitán, near the Tzaconejá River. In 1814, a visitor Manuel Gómez, founded a new settlement called Ashlumal into which many indigenous families moved into and the area became known as San Carlos. In 1848 by national decree, Comitán established a centre of commercialization in San Carlos and...