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Jaltocan 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 48.8 km². The origin of its name comes from the word Xaltocan, of origin
Náhuatl Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller ...
, which translates to "Place where it is sown in sand" As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 10,265. In 2017 there were 9,468 inhabitants who spoke an
indigenous language An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples. This language is from a linguistically distinct community that originated in the area. Indigenous languages are not neces ...
, primarily
Huasteca Nahuatl Huasteca Nahuatl is a Nahuan language spoken by over a million people in the region of La Huasteca in Mexico, centered in the states of Hidalgo (Eastern) and San Luis Potosí (Western). ''Ethnologue'' divides Huasteca Nahuatl into three languag ...
.


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Municipalities of Hidalgo (state) Populated places in Hidalgo (state) Nahua settlements {{Hidalgo-geo-stub