Soconusco, Chiapas. Transformaciones ambientales de origen antrópico

Abstract

Soconusco, in the coast of Chiapas, permanently occupied since the early days of sedentarism in America, has been a connector between Central and North America, offering advantages for the development of civilization.The civilizations took advantage of its richness and biological diversity to develop stable communities who invented agriculture. At the end of the 19th century, the mountainous zone of the area became the main producer of coffee in Chiapas, while the coastal plain was, in the 20th century, cotton, sugar cane, banana, mango, and currently palm oil, as well as cattle and sheep, generating changes in the original conditions of the landscape. In this paper we study some of these changes in a long-lasting look.