Leg 121 MMCE - Cuidad del Carmen (Mexico) to MMTG - Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico)
MMCE - Airport Info
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ICAO code: MMCE
Airport name: Cuidad del Carmen Airport
Location: Cuidad del Carmen
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Time zone: UTC-
Lighted runways : Yes
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Runway surface : Asphalt
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Cuidad del Carmen Info
Ciudad del Carmen is located 209 km from Campeche City in the State of Campeche by the Federal Highway 180 in Mexico and is known as La Perla del Golfo (the Pearl of the Gulf).
In Ciudad del Carmen you can visit interesting places such as:
The Parish of the Virgen del Carmen, built in the XVIII century
The Temple of Jesus de Nazareno, built in the XIX century
The National Palace
The Zaragoza Park
At La Red restaurant you can board the ferry and take a tour around the Terminos Lagoon, (during this tour you can admire the dolphins). The departure schedules from Ciudad del Carmen to Zacatal are from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm; and from Zacatal to Ciudad del Carmen are from 7:00 am to 7:pm.
In Ciudad del Carmen the crafts are made with fish scales in form of flowers and lamps, among many other.
The main festivities which are celebrated on the island are the Feast of the Virgen del Carmen from July 10th to 31st and the Fair of the Guanal from August 16th to 30th, with processions, fire-works and a carnival.
MMTG - Airport Info
ICAO code: MMTG
Airport name: Francisco Sarabia Airport
Location: Tuxtla Gutiérrez
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Time zone: UTC-
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: '
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Tuxtla Gutiérrez Info
Tuxtla Gutiérrez is the capital city of the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the local public administration, of the local authorities, and of the delegations of the federal government in the state. It covers more than 40% of the municipal territory, and continues to grow.
The Zoques founded a village in present day Tuxtla Gutiérrez in approximately 1240, calling it Coyatocmó, ("place of the rabbits' house" in Zoque). In the late 14th century, the Aztecs gave it the name of Tochtlán. In the colonial era, the Spanish called it Tusta and it was a mere rest village before continuing to Chiapa de los Indios (nowadays called the Chiapa de Corzo).
In the late 18th century, the Zoques provoked a rebellion in Tusta in which they killed the mayor, the Spanish governor, and their Zoque governor, and also looted and burned various residences, because their mayor, Don Manuel Maesterra y Atocha, had abused his power against them and the Real Audiencia de Guatemala had done very little about it in spite of the complaints.
On 20 February 1762, the town was officially named San Marcos Tuxtla.
On 19 June 1768, Chiapas was divided into two major municipalities: Tuxtla, which had jurisdiction in the Zoque and Chiapa areas, and Ciudad Real — now San Cristóbal de las Casas — which had jurisdiction in the rest of the province. In 1790, the municipalities of Ciudad Real and Tusta along with the province of Soconusco made up the Intendencia de Chiapas, the capital of which was located in Ciudad Real, with subdelegates in Tuxtla, Comitán, and Soconusco.
On 29 October 1813, Tuxtla was given town status. On 27 July 1829 it became a city by decree of the Chiapas state Congress.
In 1833, Governor Joaquín Miguel Gutiérrez moved the seat of state power to Tuxtla. It was returned to San Cristóbal on 31 May 1848 by Governor Nicolás Ruiz Maldonado, who, on the same day, changed the name of the city to Tuxtla Gutiérrez in honor of Joaquín Gutiérrez. In 1858, there was an armed uprising in favor of the Plan de Ayutla which returned powers to Tuxtla for a year, after which they returned to San Cristóbal. In 1892, Governor Emilio Rabasa, moved these powers for the third and final time to Tuxtla.
In 1911, inhabitants of San Cristóbal, in alliance with the Chamulas, staged an armed uprising against Tuxtla to reclaim its former status as state capital, but the attempt failed.
In the 1940s, the construction of the Pan-American Highway facilitated communication with Mexico City as well as internal relations and commerce. Consequently, Tuxtla prospered politically and economically. In the 1950s a drainage system was installed, concrete roads were paved, various schools were constructed, and the Chiapas penitentiary was situated in Cerro Hueco (since relocated).
In the 1960s, there were approximately 45,000 people living in Tuxtla. The main roads were expanded, and growth began beyond the city proper. The first private residential housing estates and the first government-funded residential neighbourhoods for urban workers began to appear. The majority of the working class was dedicated to agriculture, teaching, and commerce, with the majority of foreign investment in the latter. Since the 1970s, the city of Tuxtla has grown much more. Because of the creation of the Chicoasén hydroelectric power plant, many workers established themselves in the city and after some years the majority of them remained as permanent residents.
The population of this city has grown at a dizzying pace starting from the increase of the administrative decentralization of Mexico and the increase of development aid to Chiapas, basically exploding following the armed uprising of the Zapatista guerrillas in the northeast part of the state—particularly, the EZLN.