Lafragua Municipality is a Municipalities of Puebla, municipality in the Mexico, Mexican states of Mexico, state of Puebla. According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, National Statistics Institute (INEGI), it had a population of 10,551 inhabitants in the 2005 census. By the 2010 census it had dropped to 7,767 inhabitants, 761 of whom lived in Saltillo, the municipal seat.
2010 census tables: INEGI
Its total area is 128.85 km². The Saltillo name comes from the Nahuatl words Atlcholoa in atl, which means water, and Choloa, meaning drip. Therefore, means water that drips. The name Lafragua is in honor of José María Lafragua.
Its geographical coordinates are 19° 17′ 52” North, and 97° 17′ 54” West at Saltillo. Its average altitude is 2,860 m above sea level. The elevation at Saltillo is officially 2,829 meters (9,281.5 ft.), making it the third-highest municipal seat in Mexico (after Emiliano Zapata Municipality, Tlaxcala, Emiliano Zapata, Tlaxcala and El Porvenir, Chiapas).
Source: Statistics from INEGI
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110724165337/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/puebla/Mpios/21093a.htm
References
{{Puebla
Municipalities of Puebla