Tenosique

Tenosique is a town situated in Tenosique Municipality in the southeastern corner of the province of Tabasco, in Mexico. Its official name is Tenosique de Pino Suarez. The town had a 2005 evaluation population of 31,392 inhabitants the fourth-biggest network in the state after Villahermosa, Cardenas, and Comalcalco, while the district had a population of 55,601.

Tenosique's historical background: from the Maya words "Tana" or house and "tsiic" weaving or tallying strings, which leaves us with "casa de los hilanderos " or "Place of Weavers or string counters". Tenosique was established c. 1000 B.C. in the Preclassic Maya Period as indicated by Magnolia Paz Nexo in her book Tenosique Prehispanico y Colonial altered by the Government of Tabasco. From that point forward Tenosique has been involved uninterruptedly, VP and national legend of the Revolution, Jose Maria Pino Suarez was conceived in Tenosique in 1869, and the town currently bears his name.