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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TABASCO , a See also:

state of See also:Mexico, bounded N. by the Gulf of Mexico, E. by the state of See also:Campeche and See also:Guatemala, S. by Guatemala and See also:Chiapas, and W. by See also:Vera Cruz. See also:Area 10,072 sq. m. Pop. (1900) 159,834. The See also:surface is generally See also:low and See also:flat, largely covered with lagoons, watercourses and swamps. In the S. and S.E. there is an area belonging to the rough higher formation of Chiapas. Dense forests See also:cover the whole region, and there are valuable See also:fine See also:woods and dye-woods. There are several large lagoons on the See also:coast, two of which are called Sant' See also:Ana and Tupilco bays. Two large See also:rivers, the Grijalva and Usumacinta, See also:traverse its territory. The Grijalva, also called Tabasco, the upper course of which is known as the Chiapas, has its most distant See also:sources in western Guatemala and flows N.W. across Chiapas to the frontier of See also:Oaxaca, thence N. to the frontier of Tabasco, and thence N.E. to the coast; it is navigable for 93 M. The Usumacinta likewise has its sources in western Guatemala. It forms the boundary between Guatemala and Chiapas until the frontier of Tabasco is reached, where its N.W. course turns to the N. and then N.W. to a junction with the Grijalva—the two rivers having a See also:common outlet.

The Usumacinta, including its See also:

head streams, is about 5oo m. See also:long; excluding them about 330 M. long; for about 270 M. it is navigable, for about 18o m. for large steamers. There are no See also:railways and no See also:good roads, and these rivers and the navigable channels of the Cuxcuchopa, Soledad, Cocohital, Tular, and Tortuguero, are the See also:principal See also:practical thoroughfares in the state. The See also:capital is See also:San Juan Bautista (pop., 1900, 10,548), formerly called See also:Villa Hermosa, on the Grijalva See also:river, about 7o m. above its mouth. The next most important See also:town is Frontera (pop., 1895, 6794), a See also:port 3 M. within the mouth of the Grijalva.

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