Jaltocan
Municipality and town
Jaltocan is located in Mexico
Jaltocan
Jaltocan
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 21°08′00″N 98°32′18″W / 21.13333°N 98.53833°W / 21.13333; -98.53833
Country Mexico
StateHidalgo
Municipal seatJaltocan
Area
  Total48.8 km2 (18.8 sq mi)
Population
 (2005)
  Total10,265

Jaltocan is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 48.8 km². The origin of its name comes from the word Xaltocan, of origin Náhuatl, which translates to "Place where it is sown in sand"

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 10,265.[1] In 2017 there were 9,468 inhabitants who spoke an indigenous language,[2] primarily Huasteca Nahuatl.[3]

References

  1. "Jaltocan". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  2. "Información Estadística Básica: Carpeta Municipal Jaltocan" (PDF). Sistema Integral de Información del Estado de Hidalgo. Secretaria de Planeación Desarrollo Regional Regional y Metropolitano. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  3. Báez Cubero, Lourdes; Garret Ríos, Gabriela; Pérez González, David; Moreno Alcántara, Beatriz; Fierro Alonso, Ulises Julio; Hernández García, Milton Gabriel (2012). Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ed.). Los pueblos indígenas de Hidalgo: Atlas etnográfico (PDF) (Primera ed.). México, D.F; México. pp. 32–35. ISBN 978-607-484-357-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2019-05-14.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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