Tlaxcoapan

Tlaxcoapan
Municipality and town
Official seal of Tlaxcoapan
Tlaxcoapan is located in Mexico
Tlaxcoapan
Tlaxcoapan
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 20°05′43″N 99°13′12″W / 20.09528°N 99.22000°W / 20.09528; -99.22000
Country Mexico
StateHidalgo
Municipal seatTlaxcoapan
Area
 • Municipality and town
79.3 km2 (30.6 sq mi)
Population
 (2010 census)
 • Municipality and town
26,758
 • Density340/km2 (870/sq mi)
 • Metro
Tula de Allende

Tlaxcoapan is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 79.3 km².[1]

[2]As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 26,758.[3] It is now part of Tula de Allende built-up (or metro) area.

Toponymy

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The word Tlanalapa comes from the Nahuatl Tachtli 'ball game', atl 'water' and pan 'on'; so its meaning is "On or in the river of the ball game".[note 1][4][5] Another meaning could be that it decomposes into Tlachco (from tlachtli 'ball game' and the locative -co 'en') 'in the ball game' or literally 'ball game court'; atl 'water', and the locative suffix -pan 'over'; so[6]

Demography

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Populated places in Tlaxcoapan

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Town Population
Total
Tlaxcoapan
Doxei

Notes

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  1. ^ The etymological origin of the name of a municipality can have

References

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  1. ^ "Tlaxcoapan, Hidalgo (Mehiko) Postal Code Listahan - Cybo". postal-code.cybo.com (in Tagalog). Retrieved 2024-10-06.
  2. ^ Today Matsuo Bashō Cooks, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020-03-15, pp. 15–17, doi:10.2307/j.ctvzsmbqp.5, retrieved 2024-10-06
  3. ^ "Tlaxcoapan". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  4. ^ Centro Estatal de Estudios Municipales del Estado de Hidalgo (1988). Los Municipios de Hidalgo. Colección Enciclopedia de los municipios de México. Secretaría de Gobernación.
  5. ^ "Tlaxcoapan". Municipios de Hidalgo. Gobierno del estado de Hidalgo. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Gran Diccionario del Náhuatl - Tlachcho".