Tepeapulco

Tepeapulco
Municipality

Coat of arms
Tepeapulco

Location in Mexico

Coordinates: 19°47′08″N 98°33′06″W / 19.78556°N 98.55167°W / 19.78556; -98.55167Coordinates: 19°47′08″N 98°33′06″W / 19.78556°N 98.55167°W / 19.78556; -98.55167
Country  Mexico
State Hidalgo
Town 1527
Municipality 1824
Municipal seat City of Tepeapulco
Government
  Body Honorably City Hall of Tepeapulco
  Mayor or municipal president Alberto Franco (Institutional Revolutionary Party)
Area
  Total 239 km2 (92 sq mi)
Population (2005)
  Total 49,850
Postal code (C.P.) 43978
Area code(s) 791

Tepeapulco is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico.The municipality covers an area of 239 km².

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 49,850.[1]

During the Spanish colonial period it was part of the domain of the alcaldia mayor of Apa y Tepeapulco.[2] The parish of San Francisco Tepeapulco was established in 1527.

References

  1. "Tepeapulco". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  2. Peter Gerhard, Guide to the Historical Geography of New Spain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972) p. 53
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