Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chiapas

Ciudad Cuauhtémoc is a city in the extreme southern Mexican state of Chiapas. It is part of the municipality of Frontera Comalapa and is situated on the Guatemala-Mexico border opposite the city of La Mesilla, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. The city's name was changed from El Ocotal to Ciudad Cuauhtémoc on November 18, 1943, and serves as Mexico's southern terminus of the Pan-American Highway. The city is noted for being the final destination of Mexico's first Carrera Panamericana border-to-border road race in 1950. Starting in Ciudad Juarez (situated across the border from El Paso, Texas) in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, the race lasted six days, spanned 2,096 miles (3,373 kilometers), and finished its course in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc...