Cholula de Rivadavia
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municipal seat of San Pedro Cholula, State of Puebla, Mexico
Key facts
- Country
- Mexico
- State
- Puebla
- Founded
- roughly 500 BCE
- Municipal status
- 1860s
- Municipal presidents
- José Juan Espinosa (San Pedro) and Leoncio Paisano (San Andrés)
- Total
- 111.03 km (42.87 sq mi)
- Elevation of seat
- 2,150 m (7,050 ft)
- Density
- 2,640/km (6,830/sq mi)
- Urban
- 149,256
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (US Central) )
- Demonym
- Choluteco
- Website
- (in Spanish) San Andrés and San Pedro
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Cholula ( Spanish: [tʃoˈlula] , officially Cholula de Rivadavia; Mezquital Otomi: Mä'ragi), is a city and district located in the metropolitan area of Puebla, Mexico. Cholula is best known for its Great Pyramid, with the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios sanctuary on top, as well as its numerous churches.
The city and district of Cholula are divided into two: San Pedro Cholula and San Andrés Cholula. Surrounding the city proper are a number of more rural communities which belong to the municipalities of San Andrés and San Pedro. The city itself is divided into eighteen neighborhoods or barrios, each with a patron saint.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cholula de Rivadavia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.