Chiapa de Corzo Attractions 
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About 18km/11mi east of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, on the Carretera Panaméricana, is the little town of Chiapa de Corzo (415 m (1362 ft); population 40,000). Even from the main road-junction a one-storey restored pyramid can be seen, inside which a tomb has been discovered.
The excavations undertaken by the New World Archaeological Foundation have demonstrated that the area around Chiapa del Corzo, like that around Izapa, was one of the oldest pre-Columbian sites in Meso-America. The ceramics which have been found here suggest that the region was settled from 1400 bc until a.d. 950, in other words from early formative times up to the Classic period.
The excavations undertaken by the New World Archaeological Foundation have demonstrated that the area around Chiapa del Corzo, like that around Izapa, was one of the oldest pre-Columbian sites in Meso-America. The ceramics which have been found here suggest that the region was settled from 1400 bc until a.d. 950, in other words from early formative times up to the Classic period.
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