Municipio Acolman

Acolman
Symbols
coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	México
Seat	Acolman de Nezahualcóyotl
surface	84.1 km²
Residents	136,558 (2010)
density	1,623.6 inhabitants per km²
Website	www.acolman.gob.mx/
INEGI no.	15002
politics
Presidente municipal	Vicente Anaya Aguilar
Acolman Municipal Palace

Coordinates: 19 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  N , 98 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  W.

Acolman is a municipality in the Mexican state of México . It belongs to the Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México , the metropolitan area around Mexico City . The seat of the municipality is Acolman de Nezahualcóyotl , with over 100,000 inhabitants, however, by far the largest place in the municipality is Tepexpan . The municipality had 123,024 inhabitants in 2010, its area is 84.1 km² .

The name Acolman comes from Nahuatl : acolli means water, and -maitl means "hand", thus roughly "place of the hand". The former Augustinian monastery is considered to be the origin of the Las posadas Christmas tradition .

geography

Acolman Church

Acolman is located in the north of the state of Mexico, 52 km northeast of Mexico City.

The municipality borders on the municipalities Tecámac , Teotihuacan , Tepetlaoxtoc , Chiautla , Tezoyuca , Atenco and Ecatepec de Morelos .

Web links

Commons : Acolman Municipality  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

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