Mascota Municipality
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Mascota is a town and municipality in Jalisco, in central-western Mexico, part of the Costa-Sierra Occidental Region. The municipality covers an area of 1,843 km2. The name Mascota comes from the root "Amaxacotlán", which means "place of deer and colubrids".
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mascota, Jalisco
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo_de_el_Municipio_de_Mascota_Jalisco.gif
- Settlement.image_map
- File:Mascota.png
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Mexico
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jalisco
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Dra. Sarah Castillon Ochoa
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Km
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1843
- Settlement.area_blank1_title
- Town
- Settlement.area_blank1_km2
- 3.36
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020 census
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Official name
- Mascota
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Jalisco
- Capital
- Mascota
- Population
- 14451
- Area
- 1591
- Elevation
- 2295
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Official website
- www.mascota.gob.mx
- Image
- Mascota valle.JPG
- Dialing code
- 388
- Licence plate code
- 14
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- Commons category
- Mascota Municipality
- native label
- Mascota
- inception
- 1824-03-27
- postal code
- 46900–46955
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Climate
- References
Mascota is a town and municipality in Jalisco, in central-western Mexico, part of the Costa-Sierra Occidental Region. The municipality covers an area of 1,843 km2. The name Mascota comes from the root "Amaxacotlán", which means "place of deer and colubrids".
The municipality has smaller villages such as Tecuani and La Plata, both a couple miles away. Mascota is surrounded by roads and pine-covered mountains and is a usual stop on the road to Talpa De Allende or Puerto Vallarta.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mascota Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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