Tapachula, Chiapas

Tapachula is located in the coastal state in the region called Soconusco, near the border with the country of Guatemala. A 446 Km from the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez, and only 22 km from the border bridge Talisman.
Tapachula is the head of one of the largest municipalities in the state; this city is situated near the foot of the volcano Tacana. With features provincial and modernity, the city itself, suggests architecture of mansions and European features, while maintaining a good part of vernacular elements in housing otate, adobe or cane, with thatched roofs or clay tiles. This city is 120m above the sea and has a current population of 271.141 inhabitants, situated in the region Soconusco, this city is one of the most significant economically as it is located just at the gateway to Central and in the narrow plain of the Pacific. Formerly in the pre-Hispanic times was inhabited by people of their own culture and yet almost unknown establishing one of the ceremonial centres unique to the rest of the state Izapa.
Description
Tapachula is a city with its own personality due its hot and humid weather, the landscape that surrounds it and the lush vegetation, but largely to its traditional architecture, both of its great public buildings like the houses surrounding the first box this beautiful city.
The most striking example of beauty and splendour of St. Augustine Church, the old City Hall Culture House today and Park Hill topped by the modern town hall, near the park we can realize the economic activity of many families at the time 60's reflected in the huge houses and homes for the Art-Deco style, the building and the house's lunchbox Verdun setting an example of the social life of yesteryear in this pearl of Soconusco.

Historic Monuments
Parish of St. Augustine. This maintains its architectural simplicity and large wooden roof with clay tiles, the most important element is its facade, neo-classical influence, its Ionic pilasters flanking arches, detail that relates to the distant church of Teopisca.
Casa de la Cultura. This building denotes the prosperity achieved in the city, is one of the architectural heritages of the twentieth century and opened in 1929. To build it influenced several of the constants that relate to the domestic architecture of the city, such as Art-Deco style, which was widely publicized throughout Mexico, this style was born in Europe. Nationalism Tapachultec resumed is his quest to highlight Mexican culture figures that flank the main facade of the same, such as Oaxacan frets, Aztec warriors, the stylized snakes and the use of national and state crowns.
Park M. Hidalgo. This is one of the favourite places of Tapachultec here thousands of stories are told, loves and so many things in life, that's why the park is the main function of both leisure and give shelter to all who visit and sits down to admire the warmth of its people and where better feel better, the pulse of city and border trade. Surrounding the City Hall, the Portal Perez and Outdoor Theatre, is where concerts are given daily marimba, which give a lively touch to the area.
Municipal Cemetery. One of the finest funerary art, is precisely in this city, as their tombs and chapels express the high economic activity and yet the ethnic, so that we can find tombstones with names of German or Chinese characters. The best examples date from the last years of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
Gastronomy
Speaking of food Chiapas as such, would generalize too much, as Chiapas State being so diverse in terms of its climate and its people, cuisine changes from region to region. That's why the kitchen is part of Tapachula in the primordial experience that gives this city Soconusco Pearl.
Do not forget that Tapachula is a city with economic activity and attractive to visitors from all over the world, for that reason we can find a wide variety of dishes of international stature due to the cultural diversity of these may be mentioned example of Italian cuisine, Chinese, Thai, Cantonese, Japanese and vegetarian classic.
Crafts
In itself, the city of Tapachula not offer a craft that distinguishes itself from other municipalities, this due to the strong influence of foreign cultures that settled in this region where they live, most of crafts that you can find are from far east as China and Japan.
Nightlife
The entertainment and nightlife in this city is an element or characteristic of Tapachultec and visitors have to say that here you will find a variety of bars and clubs for different tastes, ranging from sophisticated to trova music discs salsa, reggae and techno music.
How to get there
Tapachula is considered central point geographically located south of the state as a place of intersection of major roads in the region, to reach this city if one part of the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez should take the Panamerican highway that leads to the town of Arriaga and then we take the coastal road to finish at a approximate distance of 5 hr. If you prefer otherwise scroll the Committee should take part of the Pan American Highway to get to Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, then continue on Highway 211 until reaching the junction of Huixtla, to continue on the coastal road 200, in approximately 4 hours.
Festivities
The International Tapachula Fair. Is considered one of the largest in the State and the Country, held during the month of February, there are exhibitions and livestock farming in other countries and the participation of national artists.
San Agustin Fair. Held in the city of Tapachula of 20 to 30 August, the celebration is to honour the patron saint of the city, with pilgrimages to the various neighbourhoods.
Accommodation
For every visitor that enters the pearl of Soconusco, Tapachula offers different lodging alternatives, ranging from $ 10 to $ 200 USD, so genuine always combining the beauty and charm, simplicity and luxury, adventure and passion, all to result in a unique and unforgettable experience, caring for the nice environment where good taste prevails.