Pisaflores

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Pisaflores
Municipality and town
Pisaflores
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 21°11′36″N 99°0′18″W / 21.19333°N 99.00500°W / 21.19333; -99.00500Coordinates: 21°11′36″N 99°0′18″W / 21.19333°N 99.00500°W / 21.19333; -99.00500
Country  Mexico
State Hidalgo
Municipal seat Pisaflores
Area
 • Total 159.3 km2 (61.5 sq mi)
Population (2005)
 • Total 17,214

Pisaflores is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Pisaflores (municipality). The municipality covers an area of 159.3 km².

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 17,214.[1]

Pisaflores also has Tepehuas who are Eastern Orthodox Christians (Sandstrom 2005).

References

  1. ↑ "Pisaflores". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved December 27, 2008. 
  • Sandstrom, Alan R., and Enrique Hugo García Valencia. 2005. Native peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Hidalgo (state) State of Hidalgo
Pachuca (capital)
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