Zacoalco de Torres, formerly Zacoalco ( nah, Tzacoalco; "place of closed water"), is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an o ...

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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 ...

Jalisco Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...

. The municipality covers an area of 491.27 km². It is the primary production region of the ''equipal''-style wood and pigskin furniture. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 30,528. To the east lies the largest lake in Mexico, La Playita.

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*Equipales Imperial *Equipales de mi tierra *Equipales Los Díaz *Equipales Casillas *Equipales del Rey *Equipales el Nogal *Equipales Estrada *Equipales Magallanes *Equipales Toño Pila * Mi Bodega Aurrerá (Supermarket) (opened on July 16, 2013) * Coppel Canadá (Departament Store) (opened in September 2013) *

BBVA Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (), better known by its initialism BBVA, is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Bilbao, Spain. It is one of the largest financial institutions in the world, and is present ...

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Banorte Grupo Financiero Banorte, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as Banorte (''Banco Mercantil del Norte'') and as Ixe, is a Mexican banking and financial services holding company with headquarters in Monterrey and Mexico City. It is one of the four large ...

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Banco Azteca Banco Azteca is a Mexican bank chain which operates in Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and El Salvador. The company's products are consumer credit for goods, personal loans, small business loans, credit cards, mortgages and payroll syst ...

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Farmacias Guadalajara Farmacias Guadalajara is a Mexican drugstore chain, that was founded in 1942 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. In 1962 it began an expansion program, and currently has more than 1725 drugstores in 19 States. It is one of only 3 businesses from Jalisc ...

(Súper Pharmacy) (opened in autumn 2008) * Oxxo Zacoalco (Convenience Store) (opened on December 2, 2011) * Oxxo Catarina (Convenience Store) (opened in December 2011) * Oxxo Portal Arista (Convenience Store) (opened in April 2017) * El Bodegón (Furniture store) (opened on January 17, 2014) *Farmacia Zacoalco (local pharmacy) *Abarrotes Santana (local convenience store) (opened in 2012) *Súper Santa Catarina (local convenience store) (General Andrés Figueroa) *La Súper Tienda (home store) (Initially opened in August 1953, closed in September 2018 and re-opened in April 2019)

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