Xicotepec Municipality
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Xicotepec (in Nahuatl: xico; tepetl, 'jicote or bumblebee; hill' 'Hill of jicotes'') is one of the 217 municipalities that make up the Mexican state of Puebla in central-eastern Mexico. It is located within the Sierra Norte de Puebla and belongs to the first region of the state. Its head is the city of Xicotepec de Juárez, which has been recognized by the Mexico's Secretary of Tourism as one of the 121 pueblos mágicos (magical towns) in the country since 2012.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Xicotepec
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Xicotepec.jpg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Escudox.png
- Settlement.blank_emblem_size
- 180px
- Settlement.image_map
- Xicotepec en Puebla.svg
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- Location of the municipality in Puebla
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- above
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- Location in Mexico
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Puebla
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Laura Guadalupe Vargas Vargas (2018-2021)
- Settlement.area_blank1_title
- Xicotepec
- Settlement.population_blank1
- 41455
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Town
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Puebla
- Capital
- Xicotepec de Juárez
- Population
- 81455
- Elevation
- 796
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Official website
- www.xicotepecpue.gob.mx
- Image
- Vista de Xicotepec de Juárez.jpg
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- Xicotepec Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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- Geography
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Xicotepec (in Nahuatl: xico; tepetl, 'jicote or bumblebee; hill' 'Hill of jicotes'') is one of the 217 municipalities that make up the Mexican state of Puebla in central-eastern Mexico. It is located within the Sierra Norte de Puebla and belongs to the first region of the state. Its head is the city of Xicotepec de Juárez, which has been recognized by the Mexico's Secretary of Tourism as one of the 121 pueblos mágicos (magical towns) in the country since 2012.
== History == It is said that the first expeditionaries of this place were the Olmecs, who found on these lands a depression that seemed adequate to raise their ceremonial center; torrential rains, its special topography, the confluence of two rivers and dense vegetation made it the ideal place to live.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xicotepec Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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