Zinacantán
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San Lorenzo Zinacantán () is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. 99.1% of its population is Tzotzil Maya, an indigenous people with linguistic and cultural ties to other highland Maya peoples.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Zinacantán
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and Municipality
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- Yutil jTeklum 2.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Partial view of Zinacantan with San Lorenzo (Saint Lawrence) Church in the middle
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- Mexico
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
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- Location in Mexico
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- Country
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- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Chiapas
- Settlement.leader_title
- Presidente municipal
- Settlement.leader_name
- Mariano Francisco Sanchez Hernandez
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 171.4
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 5,575
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- Toponymy
- Population
- Traditional charges and feasts
- History
- Geography
- Climate
- Demographics
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San Lorenzo Zinacantán () is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. 99.1% of its population is Tzotzil Maya, an indigenous people with linguistic and cultural ties to other highland Maya peoples.
==Toponymy== In accordance with anthropologist Robert Lauhgling, the region of Zinacantán was also known as ''"Ik'al Ojov" (Black Lord), but the name changed to "Sots'leb" (Place of Bats), in Tzotzil (a Mayan language), because a bat cave was located there, which was deified by the locals, leading them to give it this name. In their own language, the inhabitants of Zinacantán call themselves "Sots'leb," which means "bat people." The name "Zinacantán" comes from Nahuatl and translates as "place of bats." Cecilio Robelo, in his work «Toponimia Tarasco-Hispano-Nahoa» associates the translation «del bata» with the name Zinacanyotl.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zinacantán” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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