Tamazunchale Municipality

Also known as Tamazunchale

Tamazunchale is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. In 2010 the area of the municipality was and the population was 96,820. The population of the town was 24,562.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Tamazunchale
Settlement.name: Tamazunchale
Settlement.settlement_type: Town & Municipality
Settlement.total_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Tamazunchale S.L.P.jpg
Settlement.image_seal: Tamazunchale seal.gif
Settlement.pushpin_map: Mexico San Luis Potosí#Mexico
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: above
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 260
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Mexico
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State

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Etymology
History
Cortes invasion
Independence from Spain
Modern times
References
External links

Tamazunchale is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. In 2010 the area of the municipality was and the population was 96,820. The population of the town was 24,562.

==Etymology== The name Tamazunchale (Tam-uxum-tzalle) comes from the Huastec language, and means "Place of the Government"; it was the Huastec capital around the 15th century.