Macuspana is a
city
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in
Macuspana Municipality
Macuspana Municipality is a municipality in Tabasco in south-eastern Mexico. Its seat is the city of Macuspana
Macuspana is a city in Macuspana Municipality in the south-central part of the state of Tabasco in southeastern Mexico. The city of M ...
in the south-central part of the
state
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Tabasco
Tabasco (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco), is one of the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa.
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in southeastern
Mexico
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. The city of Macuspana had a 2005 census population of 30,661 and is the fifth-largest city in the state. It is the municipal seat of the
municipality of Macuspana, which has an area of 2,551.7 km
2 (985.22 sq mi) and a population of 142,954, which includes numerous smaller communities. The largest of these communities is Benito Juárez (San Carlos).
It is the birthplace of
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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, the current Mexican President.
Geography
The geographical vicinity is also known as the Macuspana Basin.
Climate
Name
The etymology of Macuspana's name is uncertain. The ''Enciclopedia de los municipios de México'' offers three possible explanation
*From the
Nahuatl
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''Macui-chpana'', meaning "place of the five sweepings" or "place of the five cleansings".
*From the
Zoque ''Macu-pane'', meaning "place where the priest goes".
*A corruption of the given names ''Marcos'' and ''Juana'', presumably the founders of the settlement.
References
Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
''Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México''
Populated places in Tabasco
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