Fair of San Sebastián
Place: Comitán- Date: January 12-20
From 12 entries begin flowers in honor of the Roman martyr, St. Sebastian, your big day is 20. This fair was established since 1828 and on committees is associated with bullfighting.

Sentada de Niño
Place: Barrio de San Sebastián- Date: from January 12
In Comitán began the "entry of flowers" in honor of the Roman martyr. The saint is also subject to party in Las Margaritas and the Trinity.
The New Year's Day in some Tzotzil and Tzeltal communities are made takeovers of traditional authorities.

Fiesta del Señor de Esquipulas Place: Zinacantán- Date: January 3-15 Fiesta de San Sebastián Place: Teopisca- Date: January 19-22 Music and traditional dances Fiesta de San Ildefonso Place: Teopisca- Date: January 20-23 Music and traditional dances

Fiesta de San Sebastián
Place: Chiapa de Corzo- Date: January 15-23
From 15 January with the celebration of the Lord of Esquipulas, the city of Chiapa de Corzo holds a mixed integrating the best-known communal ritual and intense world of Chiapas: the Feast of Paracho "big celebration Chiapa" . The whole town participates in it, a top Mexico's traditional celebration, which culminates with the big meal consumed in the community. This festival is famous for the colorful parade of Paracho, the parade of floats that is led by the legendary figure representation of the benefactress Dona Maria de Angulo and the simulation of a naval battle with fireworks that takes dig at Grijalva River the night of Jan. 21. Special Masses are held and carried out traditional dances.

Fiesta del Señor de Esquipulas
Place: Xochiltepec, municipio de Tuzantán- Date: January 7-15
It worships the black Christ in Guatemala

Fiesta del Señor de Esquipulas
Place: Rayón- Fecha: January 12-15
It is the most venerated image of Central America

Sentada de Niño
Place: all state of Chiapas- Date: all month
The first month begins with the "Sense of Children" where she sings to the baby Jesus, and seated on a small chair, and gowns, sharing mistela and temperate or honey pancakes and traditional tamales.

El Señor de Esquipulas
Place: Villaflores- Date: January 15
The devotion is more important in Central Chiapas celebrations in several towns, with pilgrimages to the shrine in Guatemala, Chiapas leave too many.

Feria de San Caralampio
Place: Comitán - Date: all month
This is a celebration in which they hold parades, pilgrimages, offering flowers and pets, dances, fireworks and special masses to the unofficial patron saint of mezcal, a Greek martyr saints belonging to the Church of the East, whose devotion regional spread following an epidemic in the nineteenth century. The fair ends on February 28.

Carnaval
Place: Tila - Date: february or March

Traditional Dances like tigers against bullfighting
Place: Bachajón - Date: february or March

Traditional Dances
Place: Huixtán - Date: february or March
Traditional dance and music, dance of the tanchanques, characters painted white and masked dancers. In Comitan, all the month's holiday in the district of La Pila. Day 2 is the "entry of flowers" in honor of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Carnival: music and traditional dances
Place: Chenalhó, Larráinzar, Mitontic, Tenejapa, Pantelhó, Oxchuc, Zinacantán
Date: February or March
The communal rite reaches its climax during the kintajimultik, the Indian festival of Chiapas better known at home and abroad and it was held special masses, processions of masked men, also performed dances depicting ancient legends..

San Juan Chamula Party
Place: San Juan Chamula - Date: February or March
The Chamula carnival begins four days before Ash Wednesday
Place: Huixtán - Date: February or March
Dance of the tanchanques (characters painted on the face and body in white, some with leather masks)

Santa María Candelaria Party
Place: Tuxtla Chico - Date: January 23 - February 2
Fiesta Patronal

Celebración del Año Nuevo Chino Place: Tapachula Date: february Held on the lion dances and dragon Trade Fair February 20 Place: Huixtla Agricultural, cattle and crafts.

Virgen de la Candelaria
Place: Coapilla - Date: January 31- February 5
Music and traditional dances. With a largely female participation.
Place: San Fernando - Date: February 2
San Fernando celebrates a colorful carnival, a traditional holiday characters is the tiger, the giant Goliath and Muhammad, the monkey, dogs and variteros.

La Candelaria
Place: Cintalapa - Date: February 2
It is the principal feast of Cintalapa city is a thriving center of agricultural and livestock region. La Candelaria is also held in Tuxtla Gutierrez, with the "up" of the Virgin Copoya from the community Copoya the valley where the capital sits.

Carnival
Place: various - Date: variable
Start 4 days before Ash Wednesday is very important Ocozocoautla carnival, originally zoque involving masked characters called chores. Traditional dances are held. The carnival is based on a cohuinás organization, territorial space and the legacy of ancient lineage Zoques.

San José
Place: Comitán - Date: March 19
In Comitan recalled to San Jose in his church ..

El Calvario
Place: Comitán de Domínguez
On Calvary, in Comitan, the ninth begins nine days before the Friday of Sorrows. The festival also takes place on Calvary at the nearby Tzimol.

Fiestas del Señor de Tila
Place: Larráinzar - Date: Fifth Friday of Lent
Processions from neighboring communities

Spring and Peace Fair
Place: San Cristóbal de Las Casas
Easter Sunday begins at the end of Holy Week
The most important festival of the city, with different social and cultural events, folk dances, with marimba and marching bands. St. Kitts also has a party for each of their neighborhoods.

International Fair of Tapachula (FIT)
Place: Tapachula
Date: February 28 -March 6
Agricultural, cattle, industrial, commercial, craft, culture and art, rides, rodeos, dances, bullfights and lazy cocks.

Fiesta del Señor de las Tres Caídas
Place: Ciudad Hidalgo - Date: starts the first Friday of Lent
This celebration of international exchange takes place simultaneously in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, across the river Suchiate.

Semana Santa
Place: Puerto Arista- Date: variable
Traditional period of greatest affluence of regional tourism.

Fiesta del Señor de las Cinco Llagas
Place: Escuintla - Date: Fourth Friday of Lent
Representation of Moors and Christians, with the history of Floripa, the Christian who marries a Moor

Semana Santa
Place: all state of Chiapas- Date: variable
It is a day time saving, but also able to assist the many river beaches in the region ..

Spring and Peace Fair
Place: San Cristóbal de Las Casas - Date: Easter Sunday begins at the end of Holy Week
The most important festival of the city, with different social and cultural events, folk dances, with marimba and marching bands. Holy Week, which also can fall in March, has two forms of commemoration. A Way of the Cross are every evening at Calvary in the neighborhood Yalchivol and another, the swimming season in Uninajab or any other spa in the region.

Semana Santa
Place: Zinacantán - Date: February 28 – March 16
It processions and special masses. Of great importance is the Procession of Silence.

Semana Santa
Place: Santo Domingo, municipio de Unión Juárez
Living representation of the Via Crucis

Fiesta de San Marcos
Place: Acacoyagua - Date: April 22-25
Organized a traditional feast to celebrate the holy stewardship come from defunct Ocelocalco population.

Fiesta de San Pedro
Place: Tuxtla Chico
Date: April 22-29
Held in the neighborhood of Santiago. Dancing, food and traditional rituals like the "duck race". One of the more parties attached to the ancestral roots of the whole region Soconusco ..

International Marathon Swimming of Sumidero Canyon
Place: Parque Nacional Cañón del Sumidero
Date: april
Domestic and foreign swimmers participating in this marathon swimming to over 5, 8,10 and 15 km, depending on category, in the Grijalva River as a backdrop bearing the canyon walls ..

Feria de San Marcos
Place: Tuxtla Gutiérrez- Date: April 20-27
A popular fair dedicated to the patron of the capital. They emphasize traditional elements like the nocturnal processions carrying offerings called Somes, consisting of leaves and sweet fruits ..

Día de la Santa Cruz
Place: Comunidades tojolabales de Las Margaritas
Date: May 3
Also held in Tzimol and neighborhood comiteco Grande Cross. Feast of the Holy Cross.
Place: Zinacantán
Date: May 3
Decorated crosses are erected throughout the town.

Fiesta de San Isidro Labrador
Place: Huixtán - Date: May 13-17

Fiesta de Santa Rita
Date: May 17-22
Popular Party

Fiesta de la Santa Cruz
Place: Tuxtla Gutiérrez- Date: May 3
In Tehran, a suburb of the capital, the pilgrims arrive at the temple loading cattail leaves, repeating the ritual of ancestral origin

San Antonio
Place: Comunidades tojolabales - Date: June 13

Día del Padre Eterno
Place: La Trinitaria - Date: June 13

Santos Pedro y Pablo
Place: Tzimol - Date: June

Feria de San Antonio de Padua
Place: Simojovel - Date: June 5-13

Feria de San Juan Bautista
Place: Chenalhó- Date: June 27-30

Corpus Christi
Place: Chiapa de Corzo - Date: variable
It is during the dance of Catalan. This dance. Documented since the colonial period, comes from the prehispanic and representing Quetzalcoatl, who has, either on his shoulders, back or waist, the head of a plumed serpent. And holding a machete to fight the Jaguars, that is a struggle between heaven and the underworld. The music for this dance is interpreted with "drum and whistle" and has been explained as part of a long-standing ritual that invokes the gods and the rain ...

Fiesta de San Pedro
Place: Mapastepec - Date: June 28-29
Feria patronal.

Fiesta del Señor Santiago
Place: Yajalón - Date: June 20-25

Feria de San Cristóbal Mártir
Place: San Cristóbal de Las Casas - Date: July 17-25
It celebrates the patron saint of the city, whose iconographic attribute, a palm tree appears in the state seal.

Festival Internacional de la Culturas y las Artes Rosario Castellanos
Place: Comitán de Domínguez -
Tribute to one of the leading exponents of literature Chiapas. Sample music, theater, dance, literature and visual arts with artists from Chiapas state in Mexico and elsewhere overseas.

Fiesta de la Virgen del Carmen
Place: Chalhihuitán and San Cristóbal de Las Casas
Date: July 16

Fiesta de Santiago Apóstol
Place: Cacahoatán
Date: July 16-26

Santo Domingo
Place: Comitán - Date: August 1-10
Evangelization held in Chiapas by the Dominicans have at this event one of its current consequences, for Santo Domingo is the patron of Comitan.

Fiesta de Santo Domingo de Guzmán
Place: Palenque - Date: August 1-15

Fiesta patronal de San Jacinto
Place: Ocosingo - Date: August 5-17

Fiesta Cívica
Place: variable - Date: August 28
Civic festival recalling the proclamation of independence of Chiapas ..

Fiesta de San Lorenzo
Place: Zinacantán - Date: August 11-18
Music and traditional dances

Fiesta de San Agustín
Place: Teopisca - Date: August 23 – September 1º

Fiesta patronal de Santo Domingo
Place: Escuintla- Date: August 20-30
Representation of Moors and Christians.

Fiesta Patronal de San Agustín
Place: Tapachula - Date: August 4

Fiesta de San Bartolome
Place: Villa Comaltitlán - Date: August 24
Representation of Moors and Christians..

Santo Domingo
Place: Tuxtla Gutiérrez - Date: August 1-10
Representation of Moors and Christians. The evangelization carried out by the Dominicans have at this event one of its current consequences.

Feria de la Virgen de la Asunción
Place: Ocozocoautla de Espinoza- Date: August 10-15
Includes "bumped from the virgin," a big party in the farm country of San Luis where the pilgrims.

Feria de San Roque
Place: Tuxtla Gutiérrez - Date: August 16-25
One of the more traditional block parties in Tuxtla Gutierrez, with craft stalls, candy and rides ..

Fiesta de San Jerónimo
Place: Bachajón - Date: September 28-30
As elsewhere in the country, the holidays revolve around the patriotic days, with the addition of Chiapas on the 14th, when one recalls the Federation of Chiapas in Mexico in 1824.

Fiesta de la Virgen de la Merced
Place: Teopisca - Date: September 13-24
Black or mask dance, costumed as devils or dead.

Feria del 16 de septiembre
Place: Arriaga Fecha: September 12-18
Regional Fair

Fiesta de San Miguel Arcángel
Place: Tuzantán - Date: September 20-29
Traditional feast offering and visit San Francisco's image with an image of the nearby Huixtla.

Fiestas Patrias
Place: all state- Date: September 13-16
In Chiapas last more that is added the conclusion of Day 14, when one remembers the federation to Mexico in 1842.

Festival Cervantino Barroco
Place: San Cristóbal de Las Casas
Date: October and November
Some of the events that occur are brought Cervantes Festival in Guanajuato. The various art forms develop in atriums, temples and plazas. These sites featured plays, exhibitions, dance, poetry, among other activities. All the historical center of town becomes a cultural space for both local talent and the international.

Fiesta de Santa Teresita
Place: Comitán, barrio de la Cruz Grande - Date: October 3

Aniversario Luctuoso de Don Belisario Domínguez
Place: variable - Date: October 7
It marks the death of Mexico's civil hero, pride of Comitan.

Adoración del Niño Fundador
Place: variable - Date: October 21
It is far more to adore the Child Founder at his home in San Sebastian. The Virgin of the Rosary is celebrated in the district Yalchilvol in Comitan Every Sunday of the month there is horse race in La Trinitaria.

Feria de San Francisco
Place: Tonalá - Date: Septiembre 24- October 8
Fiesta patronal.

Carrera Panamericana
Place: Tuxtla Gutiérrez - Date: October 15-30
Starts in Tuxtla Gutierrez and exposure of the cars is done on the premises of the fair is held a parade of the cars involved. The race ends in the city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.

Día de todos los santos y Día de Muertos
Place: all state - Date: November 1-2
Offerings are placed in tombs to honor the faithful departed, they prepare special dishes as part of the offerings, altars are decorated with candles and flowers, beside which the family spend the day accompanying their dead and pray for their souls.

Festival Maya –Zoque
Place: Larráinzar - Date: November 28-30
The greatest manifestation of indigenous arts. The headquarters location varies each year and not always in the highlands region ..

Feria Comercial de la Revolución
Place: Mapastepec - Date: November 16-20

Fiesta de Tuzantán
Place: November 16-20
It celebrates as the erection of Tuzantán free municipality ..

Festival de la Cultura y las Artes de Fray Matías de Córdova
Place: Tapachula - Date: variable
Various artistic

Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe
Place: all state - Date: December 12
This day celebrates the patron saint of Mexico, with special masses, serenades to the Virgin, pilgrims arriving in the capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez, the church of Guadalupe, from around the state ..

Fiesta de Santo Tomás
Place: Oxchuc - Date: December 19-21
The people brought offerings, incense, candles, liquor and crop seeds to the church to be blessed. Day 19 is the mooring of flowers and palms for the procession ..

Feria de la Concepción
Place: Bochil - Date: December 8

Fiesta de Santa Lucía
Place: Amatenango del Valle - Date: December

Navidad
Place: Zinacantán - Date: December 19-21
Music and traditional dances, bull dance mat.

Feria Chiapas
Place: Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Date: November 15-30 - December 15-30
It is the leading trade fair in the capital and one of the highlights of the region southeast of Mexico. It takes place on their premises.

Fiesta de la virgen de la Concepción
Place: Mazatán- Date: November 30 - December 8
These days they celebrate the "raids" where boys dressed as devils try to kiss the girls to convict the marriage. Mazatán Sanctuary is one of the greatest centers of Catholic worship in the Soconusco.

Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe
Place: Tapachula - Date: December 12
In the temple known as "Little Village".

Fiesta de Santa Lucía
Lugar: Villa Comaltitlán - Fecha: 13 de diciembre
Representación de moros y cristianos.

Feria de la Nochebuena
Place: Tonalá- Date: Diciembre 20-31
Popular Party

TACANÁ VOLCANO
Guarding the Southern Border