Atotonilco de Tula

Atotonilco de Tula
City and municipality
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 20°03′N99°11′W / 20.050°N 99.183°W / 20.050; -99.183
Country	Mexico
State	Hidalgo
Municipality	Atotonilco de Tula
Government
• Federal electoral district	Hidalgo's 5th
Area
• City and municipality	31 km2 (12 sq mi)
Population  (2010 census)
• City and municipality	31,078
•  Metro	Tula de Allende
Time zone	UTC-6 (Zona Centro)
Website	atotonilcodetula.gob.mx

Atotonilco de Tula is a city that serves as the municipal seat for one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo. It is located in the southwestern part of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. The municipality lies at a southern pass leading out of the Mezquital Valley, approximately 86 kilometers north of Mexico City and about 180 km northeast of the state capital, Pachuca de Soto.

The name comes from Nahuatl and means "place of hot springs"; in the otomi language, it is called Padehe. The municipality covers an area of 31 km² (12 sq mi). As of the 2010 census, it had a total population of 31,078. ^[1] It is now part of the Tula de Allende built-up (or metropolitan) area.

Geography

It is located between the parallels 99° 27’ 51” and 99° 07’ 32” west longitude, and 20° 05’ 35” and 18° 55’ 22” north latitude. Atotonilco borders. It covers a total surface area of 192.7 km² (74.4 sq mi) at an altitude of 6,634 ft. In the year 2010 census by INEGI, it reported a population of 17,055. ^[2]

The town of Atotonilco de Tula, the municipal seat, has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: Vito, Boxfi, and Progreso. ^[3] The total municipality extends 96.37 and borders with the municipalities of Tepeji del Río, Tula de Allende, Atitalaquia, Ajacuba and the state of México (Huehuetoca, Tequixquiac and Apaxco).

The municipal seat is in a small, elongated valley but most of the municipality is inside of the Mezquital Valley.^{[ citation needed ]} The highest mountain the Picacho in the Sierra Tezontlalpa, it rises 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) above sea level, ^[4] on the border between the municipalities of San Agustín Tlaxiaca and Atitalaquia.

Flora & fauna

Atotonilco de Tula municipality is a rural territory of Central Mexican Plateau, here there is a diversity in plants and animals of semi-desertic climate (Mezquital Valley).

The native animals are cacomistle, skunk, gopher, bobcat, falcon, Virginia opossum, rabbit, Mexican gray squirrel, turkey, colibri, turkey vulture, northern mockingbird, rattlesnake, pine snake, xincoyote, red warbler, rufous-crowned sparrow, lesser roadrunner, great horned owl, frog, toad, red ant, bee, and others.

Demography

Populated places in Atotonilco

Town	Population
Total
Atotonilco de Tula
Vito
Progreso
El Refugio
Conejos

See also

• 2021 Tula River floods

References

1. "Atotonilco de Tula". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on November 29, 2006. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
2. Atotonilco de Tula municipality Archived 2016-06-17 at the Wayback Machine SEDESOL, Catálogo de localidades.
3. INEGI. "Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática". Archived from the original on 2007-03-28. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
4. "Medio Físico – Ayuntamiento de Tequixquiac". www.tequixquiac.gob.mx. Archived from the original on 2016-11-29. Retrieved 2016-06-05.