Calpan Municipality is 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
Puebla in south-eastern
Mexico
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.
History
Calpan was a
Nahuatl-speaking community prior to the Spanish incursion. During the era of
New Spain it was Corregidor of
Atrisco.
[Peter Gerhard, ''Guide to the Historical Geography of New Spain'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972) p. 55-56.]
References
Municipalities of Puebla
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