Tenosique is a town located in
Tenosique Municipality in the southeastern corner of the
state
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**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
of
Tabasco
Tabasco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco, is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Tabasco, 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa.
It i ...
, in
Mexico
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. Its official name is Tenosique de Pino Suárez. The town had a 2020 census population of 34,946 inhabitants (the fourth-largest community in the state after
Villahermosa,
Cárdenas, and
Comalcalco
Comalcalco is a city located in Comalcalco Municipality about 45 miles (60 km) northwest of Villahermosa in the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Tabasco. Near the city is the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, Maya archaeological s ...
), while the municipality had a population of 62,310.
Etymology
From the
Maya
Maya may refer to:
Ethnic groups
* Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America
** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples
** Mayan languages, the languages of the Maya peoples
* Maya (East Africa), a p ...
words "Tana" or house and "tsiic" weaving or counting threads. Which leaves us with "casa de los hilanderos " or "House of Weavers or thread counters".
History
Tenosique was founded c. 1000 B.C. in the
Preclassic Maya Period (according to Magnolia Paz Nexo in her book ''Tenosique Prehispánico y Colonial'' edited by the Government of Tabasco). Since then Tenosique has been occupied uninterruptedly. Vice President and national hero of the Revolution,
José María Pino Suárez was born in Tenosique in 1869, and the town now bears his name.
Geography
Tenosique is on the
Usumacinta River
The Usumacinta River (; named after the howler monkey) is a river in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala. It is formed by the junction of the Pasión River, which arises in the Sierra de Santa Cruz (in Guatemala) and the Salinas ...
, downstream from where the river emerges from the
Cañón del Usumacinta onto the plains of Tabasco.
Climate
Transportation
Tenosique is also the site of a railway station on the
Tren Maya.
Notes
References
Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
TabascoEnciclopedia de los Municipios de México
External links
Ayuntamiento de TenosiqueOfficial website
Populated places in Tabasco
Usumacinta River
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