Tenosique

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Tenosique, officially Tenosique de Pino Suárez, is a town in the Tenosique Municipality in southeastern Tabasco, Mexico. It sits along the Usumacinta River. The town’s population was 34,946 in 2020, while the municipality had 62,310 people, making Tenosique the fourth-largest community in the state after Villahermosa, Cárdenas, and Comalcalco.

The name comes from Maya words meaning “House of Weavers” or “House of Thread Counters.” Tenosique was founded around 1000 BCE in the Preclassic Maya period and has been inhabited ever since. José María Pino Suárez, a vice president and national hero of the Mexican Revolution, was born here in 1869, and the town now bears his name.

Tenosique has a station on the Tren Maya railway, with routes connecting to other destinations such as Palenque and Cancún.