Jaltocán Municipality
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Jaltocán is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 48.8 km2. The origin of its name comes from the word Xaltocan, of origin Nahuatl, which translates to "Place where it is sown in sand"
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Jaltocán
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Azultik.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Carnival in Jaltocán, 2019
- Settlement.mapsize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico Hidalgo#Mexico
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hidalgo
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Jaltocan
- Settlement.leader_title1
- Federal electoral district
- Settlement.leader_name1
- Hidalgo's 1st
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 48.8
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Hidalgo
- Capital
- Jaltocan
- Area
- 38.39
- Elevation
- 156
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Jaltocán is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 48.8 km2. The origin of its name comes from the word Xaltocan, of origin Nahuatl, which translates to "Place where it is sown in sand"
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 10,265. In 2017 there were 9,468 inhabitants who spoke an indigenous language, primarily Huasteca Nahuatl.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jaltocán Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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