3-497: Ciudad Cuauhtémoc is a town in the extreme southern Mexican state of Chiapas . It is part of the municipality of Frontera Comalapa and is situated on the Guatemala-Mexico border opposite the city of La Mesilla , Huehuetenango , Guatemala . As of 2010, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc had a population of 2,325. The city's name was changed from El Ocotal to Ciudad Cuauhtémoc on November 18, 1943, and serves as Mexico's southern terminus of
6-578: The Pan-American Highway . The city is noted for being the final destination of Mexico's first Carrera Panamericana border-to-border road race in 1950. Starting in Ciudad Juárez (situated across the border from El Paso , Texas ) in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua , the race lasted six days, spanned 2,096 miles (3,373 kilometers), and finished its course in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc on
9-528: The southern Mexican border with Guatemala. The Carrera Panamericana ran for five consecutive years from 1950 to 1954 and was a celebration of Mexico's completion of its portion of the Pan-American Highway . Mexican state The states are the first-level administrative divisions of Mexico and are officially named the United Mexican States . There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and
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