Tlanchinol Municipality

Also known as Tlanchinol

Tlanchinol is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of . The town stands on Federal Highway 105 in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental.

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Settlement.name: Tlanchinol
Settlement.settlement_type: Town and municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Hidalgo en Tlanchinol.JPG
Settlement.imagesize: 300px
Settlement.image_caption: Statue of Miguel Hidalgo in Tlanchinol
Settlement.image_seal: Escudo de armas de Tlanchinol.gif
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

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The name comes from the Nahuatl Tlanchinolli ("burnt house") and icpac (locative of superposition); hence: "on the burnt house". An earlier form of the name was Tlanchinaltic.