Calimaya Municipality
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Calimaya is a town and municipality located just south of Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico in central Mexico. The settlement was probably established around 800 BCE, when the city of Teotenango was in existence. It remained an important town through the colonial period, part of the vast lands held by a family which came to be known as the Counts of Calimaya. The town is home to one of the oldest examples of an open chapel in the State of Mexico. Today, the municipality is still mostly agricultural but there has been a rapid construction of housing divisions, changing parts of it from
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Calimaya de Díaz González
- Settlement.name
- Calimaya
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town & Municipality
- Settlement.total_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- ClockTowerPlazaCalimaya.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Clock tower and plaza
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- State of Mexico
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal President
- Settlement.leader_name
- Irad Mercado Avila 2009-2012
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 800 CE
- Settlement.established_title2
- Municipal Status
- Settlement.established_date2
- 1824
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 103.11
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2010
- Settlement.population_footnotes
- Municipality
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- State of Mexico
- Capital
- Calimaya de Díaz González
- Area
- 103.11
- Elevation
- 2673
- Official website
- calimaya.gob.mx
- Image
- ClockTowerPlazaCalimaya.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- The town
- The municipality
- Zacango Zoo
- History
- Geography
- Climate
- Flora and fauna
- Culture
- References
Calimaya is a town and municipality located just south of Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico in central Mexico. The settlement was probably established around 800 BCE, when the city of Teotenango was in existence. It remained an important town through the colonial period, part of the vast lands held by a family which came to be known as the Counts of Calimaya. The town is home to one of the oldest examples of an open chapel in the State of Mexico. Today, the municipality is still mostly agricultural but there has been a rapid construction of housing divisions, changing parts of it from rural to suburban.
==The town== The town of Calimaya is located south of the city of Toluca in the Valley of Toluca. It is divided into five neighborhoods: Los Angeles, El Calvario, San Martin, Gualupita and San Juan. The town centers on a square called the Plaza de Kiosko which is flanked by the municipal palace, a set of arches that contains businesses and the Casa de Cultura. This “culture house” contains old documents and archeological pieces, as well as the municipal library, which was opened in 1986.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calimaya Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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