Chalchicomula de Sesma Municipality is a

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Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...

in south-eastern

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. The seat is

Ciudad Serdán Ciudad Serdán (formerly St. Andres Chalchicomula) is the municipal seat of Chalchicomula de Sesma Municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla. Its geographical coordinates are 18° 59′ North, and 97° 27′ West. Its average altitude is 2,5 ...

Etymology

The name of the municipality is of Nahuatl origin and comes from the words ''chalchihuitl'', meaning "turquoise," and ''xomulli'', loosely translated as "hollow" or "nook".

References

Municipalities of Puebla {{Puebla-geo-stub