Frontera Comalapa


Frontera Comalapa is a town and one of the 119 municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 717.90 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 67,012, up from 52,168 as of 2005.
As of 2010, the city of Frontera Comalapa had a population of 18,704. Other than the city of Frontera Comalapa, the municipality had 291 localities, the largest of which were: Paso Hondo, classified as urban, and Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Verapaz, Doctor Rodulfo Figueroa , Nueva Independencia , Sabinalito, Joaquín Miguel Gutiérrez , San Caralampio, Agua Zarca, Nueva Libertad, El Triunfo de las Tres Maravillas, Monte Redondo, Guadalupe Grijalva, Sinaloa, and El Portal, classified as rural.

History

In March 2012, authorities discovered the remains of at least 167 people in a cave at a ranch in Frontera Comalapa. A subsequent investigation revealed the remains date back to the pre-Columbian era, between 700 and 1200. There were no obvious signs of violence, and officials believe the cave was previously used as a cemetery. A number of clay works were also recovered.