Tulcingo (municipality) is a town and

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 the

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Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...

in south-eastern

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. Tulcingo De Valle (in Náhuatl: tolli-tzintli-co, ‘tule-pequeño-lugar’ ‘in a small space’)’ is located within the municipal state of Puebla, in the central oriental of Mexico. To the north, Tulcingo is located close to Chila de la sal (“head ground salts of spices”); to the east, is Tecomatlan (“Pot made of Stone); towards the south is the state of Guerrero, and

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is in the west, in the municipality of

Albino Zertuche Albino Zertuche Municipality is a municipality in Puebla in south-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 Unit ...

. A part of the Mixtec Poblana, it forms part of the migrant population based in the United States.

Geography

The municipality occupies a zone of dry land, which is part of the province of ancient Mixtec land, in the

Sierra Madre del Sur The Sierra Madre del Sur is a mountain range in southern Mexico, extending from southern Michoacán east through Guerrero, to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in eastern Oaxaca. Geography The Sierra Madre del Sur joins with the Eje Volcánico Transv ...

mountains (“mother’s Farm of the South”). In between the valleys, there are important mounds with the Tecomate region. Tulcingo contains a permanent important water landmark, in the river Tecoloyan, a tributary of the River Atoyac, within the River Tlapeneco system. The rivers form a major part of the low plane Mixtec Poblana. During the hot seasons, the rivers commonly dry up. Because of the rivers, agriculture thrives in the Selva baja caduciofolia.

References

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