Valtierrilla
Sign in to saveValtierrilla is a village in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, near the city of Salamanca, with a population of 13,200 in 2007. It is considered the world capital of the fruit-bearing cactus known as nopal (Opuntia ficus-indica).
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Valtierrilla
- Settlement.name
- Valtierrilla
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kiosco_de_valtierrilla.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kiosk Valtierrilla
- Settlement.image_map
- Guanajuato_en_México.svg
- Settlement.founder
- 1593 (Don Gaspar de Valdes)
- Settlement.area_note
- Ranked 32nd
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1,710
- Settlement.population_total
- 12,713
- Settlement.timezone1
- CST, (UTC-6)
- Settlement.timezone1_DST
- CDT
- Settlement.utc_offset1_DST
- -6
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 36881
- Settlement.area_code_type
- Area code
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Salamanca Municipality
- Elevation
- 1719
- Image
- Kiosco de valtierrilla.jpg
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- Commons category
- Valtierrilla
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- Geography
- Famous people
- Population
- History
- Pre-Hispanic times
- Colonial Era
- Independence
- Recent times
- Health and infrastructure
- Educational infrastructure
- Exponopal
- Sports
- Landmarks
- Politics and government
- References
Valtierrilla is a village in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, near the city of Salamanca, with a population of 13,200 in 2007. It is considered the world capital of the fruit-bearing cactus known as nopal (Opuntia ficus-indica).
Valtierrilla is a developing industrial area, with a population projected to increase to 20,000 by 2015 and is the largest populated place in the Salamanca town after Salamanca itself.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valtierrilla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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