Inside what is now the Chiapas state, even before its integration into the Mexican territory, there had been movements of labor nature in which population headed for or through their towns to be mainly employed in activities of the primary sector.
Al interior de lo que hoy conforma la entidad chiapaneca, aun antes de su integración como territorio mexicano, ocurrían movimientos de carácter laboral de personas que se desplazaban hacia sus localidades o a través de ellas para emplearse principalmente en actividades del sector primario.