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Tlaxcoapan

Municipality and town in Hidalgo, Mexico

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20°05′43″N 99°13′12″W / 20.09528°N 99.22000°W / 20.09528; -99.22000Country

MexicoStateHidalgoMunicipal seatTlaxcoapanArea

• Municipality and town79.3 km² (30.6 sq mi)Population

(2010 census)

• Municipality and town26,758 • Density340/km² (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 km².

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 26,758.^[1] 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".^{[note 1]}^[2]^[3] 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^[4]

Demography

Populated places in Tlaxcoapan

Town	Population
Total
Tlaxcoapan
Doxei

Notes

^ The etymological origin of the name of a municipality can have

References

^ "Tlaxcoapan". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
^ Centro Estatal de Estudios Municipales del Estado de Hidalgo (1988). Los Municipios de Hidalgo. Colección Enciclopedia de los municipios de México. Secretaría de Gobernación.
^ "Tlaxcoapan". Municipios de Hidalgo. Gobierno del estado de Hidalgo. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
^ "Gran Diccionario del Náhuatl - Tlachcho".