Ixtapaluca is a city and a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the eastern part of the

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. It lies between the

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and the western border of the state of

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 ...

. The name Ixtapaluca means "Where the salt gets wet". As of 2006, Izta included part of the world's largest mega-

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, along with Chalco and Neza. Mike Davis, ''Planet of Slums'', La Découverte, Paris, 2006 (), p. 31.

The city

At the census of 2005 the city had a population of 290,076. The parish of Ixtapaluca was founded in 1531 and had great prominence in the area. The municipal palace was built in 1973.

The municipality

As municipal seat, the town of Ixtpaluca has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: Acozac, Ampliación San Francisco, Cabaña de los Medina, Camino a Mina Milagro (El Potrero), Camino Mina Rosita, Cerro de la Abundancia, Coatepec, Colonia Julio Chávez López (UPREZ), Colonia Tetitla, Ejido el Capulín, Ejido San Francisco (Las Joyas), Ejidos de Xalpa (Camino de los Alcanfores), El Campamento (Las Cocinas) El Carmen, El Corazón, El Cuarenta, El Jaral (El Capulín), El Patronato del Maguey (Santa Rosa), El Pozo del Venado, El Treinta y Nueve (Dos Jagüeyes), El Treinta y Siete (Kilómetro Diecinueve), General Manuel Ávila Camacho, Huertas de Canutillo, Jorge Jiménez Cantú, La Cañada, La Cañada, La Espinita (Parque Industrial la Espinita), La Granja, La Guadalupana, La Mesa, Linderos de Ixtapaluca (El Tablón), Llano Grande (Rancho Viejo), Loma del Rayo (Chocolines Segunda Sección), Lomas de Coatepec, Los Cedros, Los Hornos, Los Lavaderos, Los Vergeles, Piedra Grande (Las Cabañas), Pueblo Nuevo (San Isidro Labrador), Puente del Tablón, Puente el Mezquite, Rancho el Guarda, Rancho Francisco Santillán (Atzizintla Tres), Rancho la Pastoría, Rancho la Peña, Rancho Loma Ancha, Rancho los Gavilanes, Rancho San Isidro, Rancho Venta Nueva, Rancho Verde,

Río Frío de Juárez Río Frío de Juárez, originally Río Frío (Cold River), a Mexican populated place, is located in the municipality of Ixtapaluca in the State of Mexico. Río Frío de Juárez is located at the highest point on the highway between Mexico City to ...

, Ricardo Calva, San Buenaventura,

San Francisco Acuautla San Francisco Acuautla is located in the eastern part of the Estado de Mexico to 4 kilometers from the county seat of Ixtapaluca; Coatepec bordered on the north, south to the suburbs of Ixtapaluca and Ranch San Andrés, east to the town Manuel Av ...

, San Jerónimo Cuatro Vientos, Santa Ana, Santa Bárbara, Tierras Comunales (Cerro de Ayotla), Villas de Escalerillas (Bellavista), and Zoquiapan. The municipality had a population of 429,033 in 2005. The area of the municipality is 315.10 km² (121.66 sq mi). The municipality is part of the Mexico City

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. It is an important suburb because many people that work in Mexico City live in Ixtapaluca, and it has developed recent commercial interest due to this. The first "fraccionamiento" or subdivision called San José de la Palma, Municipio de Ixtapaluca, was built in 1989. The municipality is bordered by Chalco,

Valle de Chalco Solidaridad Valle de Chalco, officially named Valle de Chalco Solidaridad, is a municipality located in the State of Mexico, Mexico, on the eastern outskirts of the metropolitan area of Mexico City. Formerly part of the municipality of Chalco, it was split o ...

, Chicoloapan,

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, Texcoco,

Tlalmanalco Tlalmanalco is a municipality located in the far south-eastern part of the State of Mexico. The municipal seat and second largest town in the municipality is the town of Tlalmanalco de Velázquez The name is from the Nahuatl language, meaning “f ...

, and the state of

. The area was first settled in 1286 by the

Mexica The Mexica (Nahuatl: , ;''Nahuatl Dictionary.'' (1990). Wired Humanities Project. University of Oregon. Retrieved August 29, 2012, frolink/ref> singular ) were a Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of ...

s. After the Spanish conquest, in 1543 Ixtapaluca was given to the control of Juan de Cuellar, who continued the indigenous practice of demanding tribute every 80 days from the people.

References

External links

Portal Oficial de Ixtapaluca
Official website {{Authority control Populated places in the State of Mexico