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Tlaxcoapan
Municipality and town
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TlaxcoapanLocation in Mexico
Coordinates: 20°05′43″N 99°13′12″W / 20.09528°N 99.22000°W / 20.09528; -99.22000
Country	Mexico
State	Hidalgo
Municipal seat	Tlaxcoapan
Area
• Municipality and town	79.3 km (30.6 sq mi)
Population
• Municipality and town	26,758
• Density	340/km (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 km.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 26,758. It is now part of Tula de Allende built-up (or metro) area.

Toponymy

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". 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

Demography

Populated places in Tlaxcoapan

Notes

1. The etymological origin of the name of a municipality can have

References

1. "Tlaxcoapan, Hidalgo (Mehiko) Postal Code Listahan - Cybo". postal-code.cybo.com (in Tagalog). Retrieved 2024-10-06.
2. 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
3. "Tlaxcoapan". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
4. Centro Estatal de Estudios Municipales del Estado de Hidalgo (1988). Los Municipios de Hidalgo. Colección Enciclopedia de los municipios de México. Secretaría de Gobernación.
5. "Tlaxcoapan". Municipios de Hidalgo. Gobierno del estado de Hidalgo. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
6. "Gran Diccionario del Náhuatl - Tlachcho".

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