Singuilucan Municipality

Also known as Singuilucan

Singuilucan is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of . As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 13,143.

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Settlement.name: Singuilucan
Settlement.settlement_type: Town and municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Iglesia de Singuilucan.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 300px
Settlement.image_caption: Former convent in Singuilucan
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

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Singuilucan is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of . As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 13,143.

The name of Singuilucan has been erroneously given as "lugar de lodo o de mucho lodo" (place of silt or too much mud), which in Nahuatl would be Zoquilocan. But the pre-Columbian glyph for this town clearly shows a hill with quelites (quilitl means green herbs, tzintli in Nahuatl) growing at its base. It also shows a blade of a knife, alluding to the obsidian blade industry of Teotihuacan, which was based in this area, as well as there is nearby "El Cerro de las Navajas" ("hill of the knives").