Tlaxcoapan
Tlaxcoapan | |
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Municipality and town | |
Coordinates: 20°05′43″N 99°13′12″W / 20.09528°N 99.22000°W | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Hidalgo |
Municipal seat | Tlaxcoapan |
Area | |
• Municipality and town | 79.3 km2 (30.6 sq mi) |
Population (2010 census) | |
• Municipality and town | 26,758 |
• Density | 340/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
[edit]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
[edit]Populated places in Tlaxcoapan
[edit]Town | Population |
Total | |
Tlaxcoapan | |
Doxei |
Notes
[edit]- ^ The etymological origin of the name of a municipality can have
References
[edit]- ^ "Tlaxcoapan, Hidalgo (Mehiko) Postal Code Listahan - Cybo". postal-code.cybo.com (in Tagalog). Retrieved 2024-10-06.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Tlaxcoapan". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
- ^ Centro Estatal de Estudios Municipales del Estado de Hidalgo (1988). Los Municipios de Hidalgo. Colección Enciclopedia de los municipios de México. Secretaría de Gobernación.
- ^ "Tlaxcoapan". Municipios de Hidalgo. Gobierno del estado de Hidalgo. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ "Gran Diccionario del Náhuatl - Tlachcho".