Sultepec Municipality
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Sultepec is a municipality in the State of Mexico in Mexico. The municipal seat is Sultepec de Pedro Ascencio de Alquisiras. The municipality covers an area of .
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sultepec
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Saint John the Baptist Church, Sultepec, Mexico state, Mexico00.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.mapsize
- 200px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality in Mexico State
- 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
- Mexico (state)
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipal seat
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Sultepec de Pedro Ascencio de Alquisiras
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 552.52
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 24986
- Settlement.timezone
- Central Standard Time
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- State of Mexico
- Area
- 552.52
- Elevation
- 2396
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Sultepec is a municipality in the State of Mexico in Mexico. The municipal seat is Sultepec de Pedro Ascencio de Alquisiras. The municipality covers an area of .
The Spanish discovered silver lodes here in 1531, which started commercial silver mining in the area. Along with Amatepec the area became known as the "Provincia de la Plata". Johann Engel was one of the Germans to settle in the area in 1536, and introduced litharge as a flux in the smelting of the ore. Amalgamation was used on a large scale in 1556.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sultepec Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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