San Cristóbal, (1) capital of Chiapas state in Mexico, has a handsome capitol, a cathedral, a secondary school, and 8500 inhabitants.—(2) A town of Venezuela, in the state of Los Andes, with streets straight, but much cut up by small ravines; an important trade (especially in coffee), mainly in the hands of Germans and Danes; deposits of coal beside the town, and near by copper-mines and petroleum wells. Pop. 5000.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 137
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