Cholula de Rivadabia

Cholula San Pedro Cholula/San Andrés Cholula
City and District
Distrito Cholula de Rivadavia
View of Pyramid and church
Cholula Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 19°03′48″N 98°18′23″W / 19.06333°N 98.30639°W / 19.06333; -98.30639Coordinates: 19°03′48″N 98°18′23″W / 19.06333°N 98.30639°W / 19.06333; -98.30639
Country	Mexico
State	Puebla
Founded	roughly 500 BCE
Municipal Status	1860s
Government
• Municipal Presidents	José Juan Espinosa (San Pedro) and Leoncio Paisano (San Andrés)
Area
• Total	111.03 km2 (42.87 sq mi)
Elevation (of seat)	2,150 m (7,050 ft)
Population (2005) San Pedro and San Andrés Municipalities
• Total	193,554
• City	118,170
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
Postal code (of seat)	72810
Area code(s)	222
Website	(in Spanish) / San Andrés and SanPedro

Cholula (Spanish   ) is a city and district located in the center west of the state of Puebla, next to the city of Puebla de Zaragoza, in central Mexico. Cholula is best known for its Great Pyramid, with the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios sanctuary on top and its numerous churches. The city and district are divided into two, San Pedro Cholula and San Andrés Cholula, which together are officially called the Distrito Cholula de Rivadavia. Surrounding the city proper is a number of more rural communities which belong to the municipalities of San Andrés and San Pedro. The city itself is divided into eighteen neighborhoods or barrios, each with a patron saint. This division has pre-Hispanic origins as does the division into two municipalities. The city is unified by a complicated system of shared religious responsibilities, called cargas, which function mostly to support a very busy calendar of saints' days and other festivals which occur in one part or another almost all year round. The most important of these festivals is that dedicated to the Virgin of the Remedies, the patron of the city in its entirety, which occurs at the beginning of September.

The city of Cholula is located just west of the state capital of Puebla and is part of its metropolitan area. The city is divided into two municipalities, called San Pedro Cholula and San Andrés Cholula, which also include a number of smaller communities that surround the city proper. The main plaza of the city is located in the municipality of San Pedro Cholula, but the Great Pyramid, located only a few blocks away, is located in San Andrés Cholula. Of the two sub-divisions, San Andrés is more residential and has the higher indigenous population. The city as a whole is officially called the Distrito Cholula de Rivadavia. It was created in 1895 and named in honor of Bernardino de Rivadavia.