Molango (officially Molango de Escamilla ) is a town and one of the 84

municipalities of Hidalgo Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo is a Administrative divisions of Mexico#States, state in central Mexico divided into 84 municipalities of Mexico, municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, Hidalgo is the States of Mexico, 16th most populous st ...

, in central-eastern

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. The municipality covers an area of 246.7 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 10,385. Molango comes from the Word Molanco a nahuatl name that means place of the god mola a pre-Columbian deity that represents the surrounding mountains and was worshipped within the territory by Nahua and Otomi People's Who still live within this municipality to this day. The three languages spoken within molango are Spanish Nahuatl De La Huasteca Hidalguense and Otomí-Tepehua. The current mayor is Raul Lozano Cano.

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