Singuilucan
| Singuilucan | |
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| — Municipality an toun — | |
  Singuilucan
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| Coordinates: 19°58′3″N 98°31′4.08″W / 19.9675°N 98.5178°W | |
| Kintra |  Mexico |
| State | Hidalgo |
| Municipal seat | Singuilucan |
| Aurie | |
| - Tot | 334.1 km2 (129 sq mi) |
| Indwallers (2005) | |
| - Tot | 13,143 |
Singuilucan is a toun an ane o the 84 municipalities o Hidalgo, in central-eastren Mexico. The municipality covers an aurie o 334.1 km². As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o 13,143.[1]
The name o Singuilucan haes been erroneously given as "lugar de lodo o de mucho lodo" (place o silt or too hintle mud), which in Nahuatl wad be Zoquilocan. But the pre-Columbie glyph for this toun clearly shows a hill wi quelites (quilitl means green herbs, tzintli in Nahuatl) growin at its base. It shows a blade o a knife an aw, alludin tae the obsidian blade industry o Teotihuacan, which wis based in this aurie, as well as thare is nearbi "El Cerro de las Navajas" ("hill o the knives").
So the correct translation o Singuilucan is tzinquilocan, "the place at the base o the muntain o quelites".[2]
References [edit]
- ↑ Singuilucan. Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Retrieved on 27 Dizember 2008. .
- ↑ singuilucansinguilucan.hidalgo.gob.mx
