Tabasco (State)
Tabasco | ||
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Capital | Villahermosa | |
surface | 24,738 km² (rank 24 ) | |
population | 2,238,603 (rank 20 ) | |
Population density | 90.5 inhabitants per km² (2010 census) |
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governor |
Adán Augusto López Hernández ( Morena ) (2019-2024 ) |
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Federal MPs |
Morena = 4 PES = 2 (6 federal constituencies) |
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Senators |
Morena = 2 PRD = 1 |
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ISO 3166-2 | MX-TAB | |
Postal abbreviation | Tab. | |
Website | www.tabasco.gob.mx |
Tabasco [ taˈβasko ], officially Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco ( Spanish Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco ), is a state of Mexico , immediately east of the isthmus of Tehuantepec on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico . Its capital is Villahermosa . The state has an area of 24,738 km² and a good 2.2 million inhabitants (2010). It borders Campeche to the east, Chiapas to the south and Veracruz to the west .
Tabasco is divided into 17 Municipios , which are grouped into two regions and five sub-regions.
The largest cities are Villahermosa (approx. 350,000 inh.), Heroica Cárdenas (approx. 100,000 in.), Comalcalco (approx. 40,000 in.), Macuspana (approx. 32,000 in.) And Tenosique de Pino Suárez (32,000 in.) .
nature and landscape
The state of Tabasco consists largely of flat alluvial land deposited by the Río Usumacinta and Río Grijalva over the course of decades. In the delta of the mouth of the two rivers are the Pantanos de Centla , which are recognized as a biosphere reserve . To the south of this there is a slight hilly landscape with heights of around 50 to 200 m ; the highest elevations of max. 900 m can be found in the extreme south along the border with Chiapas.
climate
Tabasco has a humid, subtropical climate with average annual temperatures of over 25 ° C. The annual amount of precipitation reaches up to 2750 mm; Most of the rain falls in the summer months - only the months of March and April are comparatively dry.
Population development
year | population |
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1950 | 362.716 |
1960 | 496.340 |
1970 | 768,327 |
1980 | 1,062,961 |
1990 | 1,501,744 |
1995 | 1,748,769 |
2000 | 1,891,829 |
2005 | 1,989,969 |
2010 | 2,238,603 |
2015 | 2,395,272 |
economy
As a purely agricultural country, Tabasco was one of the poorest states in Mexico for a long time, with a large proportion of livestock and grazing; and sugar cane was grown. Since the 1980s, oil production has been of major importance , which is largely operated offshore - ie on drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico - and has given Tabasco's economy an enormous boom. Prospecting in the Tabasco hinterland has revealed the presence of additional oil and gas reserves.
history
La Venta in the west of the state was from approx. 1200–600 BC. One of the most important centers of the Olmec culture, the artefacts found there are exhibited in Villahermosa in the Parque-Museo La Venta . The Maya also left ruin sites in Comalcalco in the east of the state and in Moral Reforma .
In Tabasco, the conquistador Hernán Cortés set foot on the American mainland for the first time in March 1519. Here the slave Malinche was handed over to him, who later served him well as an interpreter.
After the conquest by the Spaniards ( Conquista ) , Tabasco became part of the General Capitanate of Yucatán in the viceroyalty of New Spain in 1617 . A governor was in charge of administration and jurisdiction; the Real Audiencia of Mexico was in charge . With the independence of Mexico, the General Capitanate became a province in the Empire of Mexico .
From October to December 2007, Tabasco was exposed to massive flooding, which affected nearly half of the state's population.
Others
The region is named after the Tabasco sauce .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carmen Wurm: Doña Marina, la Malinche. A historical figure and its literary reception . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-96456-698-0 (accessed from De Gruyter Online), p. 19.
Coordinates: 17 ° 58 ′ N , 92 ° 35 ′ W