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Encyclopedia Britannica



TABASCO

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 323 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TABASCO , a state of
Mexico
 , bounded N. by the Gulf of
Mexico
 , E. by the state of
Campeche
  and Guatemala, S. by Guatemala and
Chiapas
 , and W. by
Vera
  Cruz. Area 10,072 sq. m. Pop. (1900) 159,834. The surface is generally low and flat, largely covered with lagoons, watercourses and swamps. In the S. and S.E. there is an area belonging to the rough higher formation of
Chiapas
 . Dense forests cover the whole region, and there are valuable fine woods and dye-woods. There are several large lagoons on the
coast
 , two of which are called Sant' Ana and Tupilco bays. Two large rivers, the Grijalva and Usumacinta, traverse its territory. The Grijalva, also called Tabasco, the upper course of which is known as the Chiapas, has its most distant sources in western Guatemala and flows N.W. across Chiapas to the frontier of Oaxaca, thence N. to the frontier of Tabasco, and thence N.E. to the
coast
 ; it is navigable for 93 M. The Usumacinta likewise has its sources in western Guatemala. It forms the boundary between Guatemala and Chiapas until the frontier of Tabasco is reached, where its N.W. course turns to the N. and then N.W. to a junction with the Grijalvathe two rivers having a common outlet. The Usumacinta, including its head streams, is about 5oo m.
long
 ; excluding them about 330 M.
long
 ; for about 270 M. it is navigable, for about 18o m. for large steamers. There are no railways and no good roads, and these rivers and the navigable channels of the Cuxcuchopa, Soledad, Cocohital, Tular, and Tortuguero, are the
principal
 
practical
  thoroughfares in the state. The
capital
  is San Juan Bautista (pop., 1900, 10,548), formerly called Villa Hermosa, on the Grijalva river, about 7o m. above its mouth. The next most important town is Frontera (pop., 1895, 6794), a port 3 M. within the mouth of the Grijalva.


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