Tlanchinol
Tlanchinol | |
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Town and municipality | |
Statue of Miguel Hidalgo in Tlanchinol | |
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Seal | |
Tlanchinol Location in Mexico Tlanchinol Tlanchinol (Mexico) | |
| Coordinates: 20°59′20″N 98°39′43″W / 20.989°N 98.662°W | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Hidalgo |
| Municipality | Tlanchinol |
| Granted municipal status | 1869 |
| Government | |
| • Federal electoral district | Hidalgo's 1st |
| Area | |
• Total | 380.3 km2 (146.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 37,722 |
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| Time zone | UTC-6 (Zona Centro) |
| Website | tlanchinol.gob.mx |
Tlanchinol is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 380.3 square kilometres (146.8 sq mi). The town stands on Federal Highway 105 in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental.
The name comes from the Nahuatl Tlanchinolli ("burnt house") and icpac (locative of superposition); hence: "on the burnt house". An earlier form of the name was Tlanchinaltic.[1]
The municipality was created in 1869.[2] In the 2020 INEGI census, it reported a total population of 37,722, up from 33,694 in 2005.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Nomenclatura". Municipio de Tlanchinol. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ^ "Cronología de hechos históricos". Municipio de Tlanchinol. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ^ "Tlanchinol: Economy, employment, equity, quality of life, education, health and public safety". Data México. Secretaría de Economía. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ^ "Tlanchinol". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on 23 May 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2008.