Municipio Acambay

Acambay
Symbols
coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	México
Seat	Villa de Acambay de Ruíz Castañeda
surface	464.5 km²
Residents	60,918 (2010)
density	131.2 inhabitants per km²
Website	www.acambay.gob.mx
INEGI no.	15001
politics
Presidente municipal	Irineo Ruiz González
Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel

Coordinates: 19 ° 57 ′  N , 99 ° 50 ′  W

Acambay is a municipality in the Mexican state of México . It belongs to the Mexico City metropolitan area . The administrative seat of the municipality is Villa de Acambay de Ruíz Castañeda , while the largest place in the municipality is Pueblo Nuevo . The municipality had 60,918 inhabitants in 2010, its area is 464.47 km² .

The name

The name Acambay comes from Otomí : Ahka means God and b'aye means "mountain", thus roughly "place of the mountain of God".

geography

Acambay is located in the north of the state of México, 80 km northwest of Toluca de Lerdo .

The municipality borders the municipalities Timilpan , Aculco , Atlacomulco and Temascalcingo as well as the municipality Amealco de Bonfil in the neighboring state of Querétaro .

places

There are 102 localities in the municipality, seven of which have over 1,500 and a further 31 over 500 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

Place name	Population (2010)
Pueblo Nuevo	4,422
Villa de Acambay de Ruíz Castañeda	4,077
Detiña	2,453
Ganzda	2,433
San Francisco Shaxni	2.211
San Pedro de los Metates	2,048
Puentecillas	1,851
Tixmadeje Chiquito	1,377
La Caridad	1,340

Web links

Commons : Acambay de Ruiz Castañeda  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Acambay (Spanish)
• INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Acambay (Spanish; PDF)