Ciudad Cuauhtmoc, Chiapas

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Ciudad Cuauhtmoc
(Formerly Known as El Ocotal)
City
Ciudad Cuauhtmoc is located in Mexico
Ciudad Cuauhtmoc
Ciudad Cuauhtmoc
Coordinates: 1540'01?N 9200'15?WCoordinates: 1540'01?N 9200'15?W
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Municipality Frontera Comalapa
Founded November 18, 1943
Elevation 720 m (2,360 ft)
Population (2010)
Total 2,325
Postal code 30150
Area code(s) 963
Ciudad Cuauhtmoc is a town in the extreme southern Mexican state of Chiapas. It i
s part of the municipality of Frontera Comalapa and is situated on the Guatemala
-Mexico border opposite the city of La Mesilla, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. As of
2010, Ciudad Cuauhtmoc had a population of 2,325.[1]
The city's name was changed from El Ocotal to Ciudad Cuauhtmoc on November 18, 19
43, and serves as Mexico's southern terminus of the Pan-American Highway.[2]
The city is noted for being the final destination of Mexico's first Carrera Pana
mericana border-to-border road race in 1950.[3] Starting in Ciudad Juarez (situa
ted across the border from El Paso, Texas) in the northern Mexican state of Chih
uahua, the race lasted six days, spanned 2,096 miles (3,373 kilometers), and fin
ished its course in Ciudad Cuauhtmoc on the southern Mexican border with Guatemal
a.[4] The Carrera Panamericana ran for five consecutive years from 1950 to 1954
and was a celebration of Mexico's completion of its portion of the Pan-American
Highway.[5]
References
"Frontera Comalapa". Catlogo de Localidades. Secretara de Desarrollo Social (S
EDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
INAFED. "Frontera Comalapa". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mxico. Retriev
ed 2008-11-02.
50th Anniversary of the Carrera Panamericana http://www.classics.com/panam50
.html
50th Anniversary of the Carrera Panamericana http://www.classics.com/panam50
.html
50th Anniversary of the Carrera Panamericana http://www.classics.com/panam50
.html
Categories:
Populated places in Chiapas
GuatemalaMexico border crossings
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