Tlaxcoapan
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. 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
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".