Totolapan
City and Municipality in Morelos, Mexico / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Totolapan is a municipality in the north of the Mexican state of Morelos, surrounded by the State of Mexico to the north; to the south with Tlayacapan and Atlatlahucan; to the east and southeast with Atlatlahucan; and to the west with Tlalnepantla.[2]
Totolapan | |
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City and Municipality | |
Coordinates: 18°59′13″N 98°55′11″W | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Morelos |
Founded | Between 1150 and 1350[1] |
Municipal Status | May 17, 1930 |
Government | |
• Municipal President | Sergio Omar Livera Chavarria |
Area | |
• Municipality | 67,798 km2 (26,177 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1,901 m (6,237 ft) |
Population (2010) Municipality | |
• Municipality | 10,790[1] |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
Postal code | 62830 – 62835 |
Area code | 735 |
Website | Official website (in Spanish) |
The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality, with which it shares a name. The municipality reported 11,992 inhabitants in the year 2015 census.[3]
The toponym Totolapan comes from a Nahuatl name and means "birds on water". The full name is Totolapan de Montes de Oca. Fernando de Montes de Oca was a cadet who died at the Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican–American War in 1849.[citation needed]