Tzompantepec Municipality
Sign in to saveTzompantepec is a town and its surrounding municipality located in the eastern portion of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. It is located in the Central Mexican Plateau, almost entirely on the slopes of the La Malinche Volcano. The area was the earliest to be inhabited in Tlaxcala and it was also the site of the defeat of the Tlaxcallans in the early part of the Spanish Conquest. The municipality is mostly farmland but urban sprawl has limited both natural vegetation and wildlife.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tzompantepec
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- DivinoSalvadorTzompantepec12.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Divino Salvador Church
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico Tlaxcala#Mexico
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tlaxcala
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Capital
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal president
- Settlement.leader_name
- Lorena Vazquez Zarate
- Settlement.established_title
- Municipality founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1822
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 38.357
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 14,611 (municipality) 1,869 (seat)
- Settlement.timezone
- Central
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Tlaxcala
- Capital
- Tzompantepec
- Area
- 38.357
- Elevation
- 2460
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Official website
- www.tzompantepec.gob.mx
- Image
- DivinoSalvadorTzompantepec12.JPG
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- Tzompantepec Municipality
- inception
- 1822-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- The town
- The municipality
- Socioeconomics
- History
- Geography
- Hydrography
- Climate
- Flora and fauna
- References
Tzompantepec is a town and its surrounding municipality located in the eastern portion of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. It is located in the Central Mexican Plateau, almost entirely on the slopes of the La Malinche Volcano. The area was the earliest to be inhabited in Tlaxcala and it was also the site of the defeat of the Tlaxcallans in the early part of the Spanish Conquest. The municipality is mostly farmland but urban sprawl has limited both natural vegetation and wildlife.
==The town== The town of Tzompantepec is located in eastern Tlaxcala, 5.5km southwest of Xaloztoc, 9km southeast of Apizaco, and 25km east of the city of Tlaxcala on Highway 119. Although it is the seat of municipality of the same name, it has only about one fifth of the population of the largest community, San Andrés Ahuashuatepec.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tzompantepec Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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