Cintalapa

Cintalapa de Figueroa is the municipal head of the homonymous municipality as well as the district head of the 14th district of Chiapas; in Mexico.6 In the antiquity to Cintalapa it changed into recognized him with the name of Tlacuatzin, that means hill of the tlacuaches. Unfortunately, a virus broke out and all of the inhabitants who till then formed the network became ill. The founders decided to move the metropolis and moved it to a nearby valley called Cintalapa.

The first tradition that settled in the area became the Olmec, as attested by numerous archaeological stays. During the eleventh or 12th century AD the Toltecs settled within the location; later it turned into the Zoques who occupied the territory of the municipality. Between 1486 and 1488 the Aztecs arrive at some point of one of the expeditions of conquest of Ahuizotl. During colonial times, Cintalapa changed into a livestock village in keeping with the descriptions of Fray Bartolome de las Casas and Tomas Gage because it handed via Cintalapa; On July 17, 1926, he became granted the reputation of Villa; on February 3, 1931, the metropolis.