San Francisco Acuautla

San Francisco Acuautla is located in the eastern part of the Estado de Mexico to 4 kilometers from the county seat of Ixtapaluca; Coatepec bordered on the north, south to the suburbs of Ixtapaluca and Ranch San Andrés, east to the town Manuel Avila Camacho and the suburbs of Tlapacoya Ayotla and finally west to the Magdalena Atlicpa.

It is at 19" 20' latitude and 098" 51' longitude, its grounds are located at 2300 meters above sea level approximately, also belongs to the third quadrant in which Ixtapaluca splits.

It has three main tributaries:

The three go through the villages of the mountainous area across Ixtapaluca and end at the river La compañía.

Its climate is temperate humid; the temperature varies with the seasons, the average is 15 °C and maximum 39 °C extreme and extreme low of –8 °C below zero.

San Francisco wildlife was a wooded area, but the arrival of the development and exploitation of forests have led to the fauna of this region to extinction. The few wild species are deer (although there are few examples), rabbit, ferret, opossum, cacomistle, owl, a variety of snakes, lizards and spiders, also pets such as pigs, chickens, turkeys, rabbits, cows, horses, sheep, goats, quail, and ducks. Some of these animals are bred from pre-Hispanic and colonial times.

Within the community there are several fruit species as a fig tree, wild cherry, pear, apple, sapodilla, Granada, apricot, hawthorn, walnut and peach, also some herbs like camphor, eucalyptus, pitch pine, peppermint, feverfew, basil, arnica, orange, rue, dandelion, mugwort, rosemary, horehound, chamomile, peppermint, lemongrass, aloe, tepozán, datura, melissa, mullein, and chicalote; edible plants such as pigweed, Montagu, purslane, truck, alfalfa, nopal, ortiguilla, goatee, poor women and maguey (the latter was an industry in the community).

Agriculture is especially based on corn, beans, wheat, barley, tomatoes, squash, among other vegetables and marigold flower temporarily. Finally, note that the individual trees in the region are pirúl and huizache, whose importance goes back to pre-Hispanic times.

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