Chiautla, State Of Mexico
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Chiautla is a settlement in the
State of Mexico The State of Mexico, officially just Mexico, is one of the 32 federal entities of the United Mexican States. Colloquially known as Edomex (from , the abbreviation of , and ), to distinguish it from the name of the whole country, it is the mo ...
in Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding small
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
of the same name. It is located in the north-east of the state. In the 2020 Census, the municipality reported a population of 30,045, up 14.7% from the 2010 figure. The sources disagree on its surface area, with figures of between 20.13km² and 30.32km² being given. The settlement was founded by
Toltec The Toltec culture () was a Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture that ruled a state centered in Tula (Mesoamerican site), Tula, Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo, Mexico, during the Epiclassic and the early Post-Classic period of Mesoam ...
Chichimeca Chichimeca () is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajío region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the same meaning as the Roman term "barbarian" tha ...
settlers in the 12th century AD.


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Ayuntamiento de Chiautla
Municipalities of the State of Mexico Populated places in the State of Mexico {{México-geo-stub