Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

Last modified: 2003-01-11 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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  Quoted by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán October 9, 2001

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Tapachula municipality, whose capital is Tapachula de Córdova y Ordoñez that is not a coastal city, has under its jurisdiction, in the Pacific Ocean, the most important Chiapas port: Puerto Madero, formerly called San Benito Soconusco.
San Benito Soconusco, founded even before Tapachula, has been the region's most important coastal trading port ever since. In 1813, Spanish Government allowed in 1813 San Benito and Tonalá (La Puerta - Puerto Arista) trading with other New Spain's, Guatemala's and Peru's ports, although the commercial activity reached from Oaxaca, California to Asia exporting most of the "cacao" produced over the region. After independence (1821) San Banito, jointly with the