Copoya

Copoya is a Delegation belonging to the municipality of Tuxtla Gutierrez, capital of the State of Chiapas, Mexico. Copoya manner region complete moon or in which the moon shines within the Zoque language, it's miles a town of pre-Hispanic starting place with a population of 4,500 inhabitants in 1990 and in 2000 6,655 inhabitants. It is placed south of Tuxtla Gutierrez, on one facet of Cerro de Mactumactza, at the Suchiapa Plateau, at an altitude of 840 meters above sea level.

In 1892 the metropolis of Copoya was formally founded. In 1915, the political management of the branch of Tuxtla becomes abolished and loose municipalities had been created in its location. The unfastened municipality of Tuxtla become born, whose first municipal president changed into Don Noe Vazquez Rincon, with the delegations of Teran and Copoya. At the cease of 2003 the first Catholic priest changed into named, because the copoyeros had never familiar the religious area of Tuxtla Gutierrez, since its foundation by using the Mercedarians in 1536; or the Dominicans in 1539 and the Franciscans between 1540 and 1541.