Tecozautla Municipality
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Tecozautla (Otomi: Masofo) is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 575.6 km2. The name derives from the Nahuatl words "tetl", meaning "stone"; "cozaqui", meaning "yellow thing"; and "tla", meaning "place of"; making the entire meaning of Tecozautla "place where yellow earth abounds".
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It is catalogued under topics including Municipalities of Hidalgo (state), Otomi settlements and Populated places in Hidalgo (state).
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tecozautla
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Road to Huitexcalco - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- A road to Huitexcalco
- Settlement.image_seal
- Tecozautla.jpg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico Hidalgo#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
- 84 Municipalities of Hidalgo
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tecozautla (municipality)
- Settlement.government_type
- 15px Independent
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal President
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Hidalgo
- Capital
- Tecozautla
- Area
- 525.06
- Elevation
- 1822.11
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Encyclopedic overview
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Tecozautla (Otomi: Masofo) is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 575.6 km2. The name derives from the Nahuatl words "tetl", meaning "stone"; "cozaqui", meaning "yellow thing"; and "tla", meaning "place of"; making the entire meaning of Tecozautla "place where yellow earth abounds".
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 31,609. In 2017 there were 2,415 inhabitants who spoke an indigenous language, primarily Mezquital Otomi. The town was declared a "Pueblo Mágico" in 2015.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tecozautla Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations