Xochitlán Todos Santos (municipality) is one of the 217 town and municipalities of the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...

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 ...

. It was founded in 1895.

Name

Xochitlán, name composed of the Nahua words, "xochitl", flower, and "tlan", together. The full name means "among the flowers".

Demography

According to the last census by INEGI in 2010, the municipality has a total population of 6,049 inhabitants, which gives it an approximate population density of 37 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Economy

The primary industry is agriculture, since the inhabitants dedicate themselves mostly to the sowing of

corn Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...

bean A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes th ...

alfalfa Alfalfa () (''Medicago sativa''), also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as w ...

and

sorghum ''Sorghum'' () is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the grass family (Poaceae). Some of these species are grown as cereals for human consumption and some in pastures for animals. One species is grown for grain, while many othe ...

. In second place we find livestock, a greater number of ranchers are dedicated to raising cattle or cattle and pigs. Unlike a minority that is dedicated to raising sheep, goats, horses, poultry and

beekeeping Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made beehives. Honey bees in the genus '' Apis'' are the most-commonly-kept species but other honey-producing bees such as ''Melipona'' stingless bees are also kept. ...

History

Xochitlán Todos Santos was founded by Olmec Xicalanca groups that settled there in pre-Hispanic times, dominated by

Tepeaca Tepeaca Municipality is a municipality in Puebla in southeastern Mexico. Tepeaca is located 35 km (21.75 mi) from Puebla City and is the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Its name comes from a Spanish variant of "Tepe ...

, a tributary of Mexico. It belonged to the old district of Tecamachalco and in 1895 a free municipality was established. There is a parish dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption dated from the 17th century. Located here is the Chapel of the Hacienda de San Jerónimo Álfaro founded by the Jesuits dedicated to Santa Rosalía. At the main entrance there is an underground tunnel to Tecamachalco, which was last used during the Mexican Revolution.

Geography

The municipality is located roughly above sea level and covers an area of . To the north, it borders the municipalities of

Tochtepec Tochtepec is a town and its surrounding 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 subord ...

and Tecamachalco, to the west is Huitziltepec and

Molcaxac Molcaxac (municipality) is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of 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 border ...

, to the south are the municipalities of Juan N. Mendez and Tepexi de Rodríguez, and to the east are Yehualtepec and the municipality of Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez. Xochitlán is connected by 3 highways: Xochitlán-Tecamachalco, Xochitlán-Tlacoptec de Benito Juárez and Xochitlán-Dolores Hidalgo. As for collective transportation, the municipality has Route 19 bound for

Tlacotepec Tlacotepec is a city and seat of the municipality of General Heliodoro Castillo, in the state of Guerrero, south-western Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North ...

and Tecamachalco.

Climate

The climate is temperate sub-humid with rains in the summer; with average annual temperature between , precipitation of the driest month being less than ; percentage of winter precipitation with respect to the annual is less than 5. Temperature of the coldest month falls between .

Hydrography

The municipality is traversed by a series of irrigation canals that cross it in a northeast–southeast direction, through the south lateral canal. These are used for agriculture. They are administered by the " Emiliano Zapata" irrigation module, their main task is to verify that the farmers comply with the quotas to be able to use the necessary water for their crops, as well as the periodic maintenance of the canals. The streams bathe the municipality and have served to establish small boards (Jagüeyes) among them are located in the region: "Jagüey Chiquito", "Jagüey El Arroyo", "Jagüey Los Santiagos", "Jagüey Plan Juárez" and "Jagüey Los Moros". ". For the supply of drinking water, the municipality has its own wells, as well as the "Cuesta del Toro" dam.

References

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