Municipio Xalatlaco

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Xalatlaco
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State México
Seat Xalatlaco
surface 117.1 km²
Residents 26,865 (2010)
density 229.4 inhabitants per km²
founding 1872
Website www.xalatlaco.gob.mx/
INEGI no. 15043
politics
Presidente municipal Fernando Ferreyra Olivares

Coordinates: 19 ° 10 ′  N , 99 ° 23 ′  W

Xalatlaco is a municipality in the Mexican state of México . The community had 26,865 inhabitants in 2010, its area is 117.1  km² .

The administrative seat and largest of the 19 towns in the municipality is Xalatlaco of the same name . Other places with at least 1000 inhabitants are Mezapa la Fábrica , El Águila , San Juan Tomasquillo Herradura , Techichili and Morelos .

geography

Xalatlaco is located in the east of the western part of the state of México between 2600  m and 3800  m altitude in a region of the high valley of Mexico characterized by craters of inactive volcanoes , about 32 km southeast of Toluca de Lerdo . About 40% of the community area is used for agriculture or is forested.

The municipality Xalatlaco borders the municipalities Tianguistenco and Ocoyoacac as well as the state of Morelos and the federal district of Mexico City .

literature

  • Ramiro Alfonso Gómez Arzapalo Dorantes: Mayordomos, santos y rituales en Xalatlaco, Estado de México. Reproduction of the cultural in the context of the popular religiosity . Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Mexico City 2004.

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