Municipio Texcoco

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Texcoco
location
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Mexico
State México
Seat Texcoco de Mora
surface 435.6 km²
Residents 235,151 (2010)
density 539.9 inhabitants per km²
founding 1919
Website www.texcoco.gob.mx/
INEGI no. 15099
politics
Presidente municipal Delfina Gómez Álvarez
Texcoco main square
Texcoco main square

Coordinates: 19 ° 30 ′  N , 98 ° 54 ′  W

Texcoco is a municipality in the Mexican state of México . It belongs to the Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México , the metropolitan region around Mexico City . The seat of the municipality is Texcoco de Mora . The community had 235,151 inhabitants in 2010, its area is 435.6 km² .

Tetzcotzingo

In 2010, around 8% of Texcoco's population lived in extreme poverty. Attractions in the municipality include the archaeological sites of Tetzcotzingo and Huexotla .

geography

Texcoco is located in the east of the state of Mexico, about 15 km northeast of the administrative border of Mexico City. The highest point of the municipality is on Cerro Tlaloc at over 4100  m , the average height is around 2800  m . The western part of the municipality formed the now largely drained Texcoco Lake . Today forests cover about a quarter of the area of ​​the municipality, about 40% of the area is used for agriculture.

The municipality borders on the municipalities of Atenco , Chiconcuac , Chiautla , Papalotla , Tepetlaoxtoc , Ixtapaluca , Chicoloapan , Chimalhuacán , Nezahualcóyotl and Ecatepec de Morelos as well as the states of Tlaxcala and Puebla .

places

The municipality of Texcoco comprises 70 towns and cities with a total of 55,080 households according to the 2010 census. Four of the places have at least 10,000 inhabitants, another twelve at least 2,500. The largest places in the municipality are:

Place name Population (2010)
Texcoco de Mora 105.165
San Miguel Coatlinchán 022,619
Santa María Tulantongo 015,584
Villa Santiago Cuautlalpan 012,336
Montecillo 007,371
San Miguel Tlaixpan 007,064
San Joaquín Coapango 006,774
San Jerónimo Amanalco 006,519
San Bernardino 005,667
Santa Catarina del Monte 005,599
Tequexquináhuac 005,279
San Dieguito Xochimanca 005,239
Xocotlan 005,082

Nahuatl language

In the Texcoco highlands, Nahuatl is still spoken in four places - San Jerónimo Amanalco, Santa Catarina del Monte, Guadalupe Amanalco and Santa María Tecuanulco - but the language has been in decline since the 1960s. Initiatives of indigenous people ( Nahua ) in these places around the native Jesús Yohualli López, director of the Academia de Lenguas Mexicanas de la UNAM , in recent years aim to revitalize the Nahuatl, whereby the presence of the language and its speakers in the media ( Broadcast) and in education.

Web links

Commons : Texcoco  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Almendra Vázquez Bravo: Al rescate de una lengua. Enclavados en la Sierra Nevada, cerca de Texcoco, the children "Xochipilli" y la primaria "Kuaujtemok" no imparten inglés sino náhuatl, para preservar las culturas indígenas. El Universal, October 20, 2002.
  2. ↑ Ricardo Pérez Valencia: Evitarán la muerte del Nahuatl . Vértigo Político, October 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ Jay Sokolovsky (2010): A McDonald's Nightmare: Return to a Mexican Village .
  4. ↑ Short video about Nahuatl-Spanish schools in San Jeronimo Amanalco, Mexico