San Andrés Cholula Municipality
| San Andrés Cholula Municipality | ||
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 San Andrés Cholula Municipality
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| Coordinates: 19°03′N 98°18′W / 19.050°N 98.300°WCoordinates: 19°03′N 98°18′W / 19.050°N 98.300°W | ||
| Country |
 Mexico
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| State | Puebla | |
| Founded | 500-200 BCE | |
| Municipal Status | 1861 | |
| Government | ||
| • Municipal President | David Cuauli Jimenez | |
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| • Municipality | 61 km2 (24 sq mi) | |
| Elevation (of seat) | 2,150 m (7,050 ft) | |
| Population (2005) Municipality | ||
| • Municipality | 80,118 | |
| • Urban area | 35,206 | |
| Time zone | Central (US Central) (UTC-6) | |
| • Summer (DST) | Central (UTC-5) | |
San Andrés Cholula Municipality is a municipality in Puebla in south-eastern Mexico. It forms part of the Metropolitan area of Puebla, and as of 2011, it is the fastest-growing municipality that conforms the Metropolitan Area, partly because the presence of universities and the wealthiest neighborhoods (The "Angelópolis" Zone) are located on San Andres Cholula. Along with San Pedro Cholula and Santa Isabel Cholula, it conforms the most ancient still habitated city in the American continent, Cholula de Rivadabia.
San Andrés Cholula is one of two municipalities which made up the city of Cholula, Puebla, officially called the Distrito Cholula de Rivadavia. Culturally and socially, the two halves are one city, but the city's political division into two municipalities: San Andrés Cholula and San Pedro Cholula, has its roots in the pre Hispanic period. San Andrés encompasses the city and some more rural areas outside of it from the Great Pyramid on east. The center for the entire city of Cholula is considered to be in the municipality of San Pedro Cholula, where the large Plaza de la Concordancia and the monastery of San Gabriel are. As part of the same city, the two municipalities share a number of common features. Both are located on the flat plains of the Valley of Puebla, with Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl visible to the west. Like the city of Puebla, both sides have a straight street grid oriented to the cardinal directions. Most streets in the center are numbered with indications as to their location vis-à-vis the center, north, east, south or west. On the city periphery, street names lose this system. Both contain traditional Mexican markets and tianguis in which women can be found seated on the floor selling seeds, flowers, herbs and more. One food specialty is a cold drink made with chocolate and water, whipped until foamy served in wooden bowls with flowers painted on them. Other traditional foods here include Cholulteca soup, cecina with chili pepper strips and queso de canasta cheese, a type of edible larvae called cueclas, and "orejas de elefante" (elephant ears) which is an enormous tortilla with beans inside and salsa, cheese and cheese outside. Many Cholutecans still use their pre-Hispanic surnames, such as former town stewards Raymundo Tecanhuehue and Humberto Tolama Totozintle. This is because a number of the indigenous nobility was allowed certain privileges after the Conquest.
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