Santo Tomás de los Plátanos
| Santo Tomás de los Plátanos | |
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| Municipality and town | |
 Santo Tomás de los Plátanos
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| Coordinates: 19°10′54″N 100°15′32″W / 19.18167°N 100.25889°WCoordinates: 19°10′54″N 100°15′32″W / 19.18167°N 100.25889°W | |
| Country |
 Mexico
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| State | Mexico State |
| Founded | unknown |
| Municipal status | 1870 |
| Government | |
| • Municipal President | Basilio Avila Loza (2006-2009) |
| Elevation | 1,380 m (4,530 ft) |
| Population (2005)Municipality | |
| • Total | 8,888 |
| • Seat | 2,823 |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| Postal code | 51100 |
Santo Tomás de los Plátanos also known as Nuevo Santo Tomás de los Plátanos is a town and governmental seat of the municipality of Santo Tomás, located in the center-west of Mexico State, in Mexico. It is approximately 185 km from Mexico City, and 107 km from Toluca.
The Náhuatl name for the area was Caltepec, but as early as 1631, records referred to the village here as Santo Tomás, which the municipality is still called. Don Vasco de Quiroga added "de los Plátanos" to the name of the village because of all the banana plantations nearby, but the name was not official until 1975. Few records exist from the colonial period, but the area was under the jurisdiction of San Martín Otzoloapan in the 19th century.
The current town of Santo Tomás de los Platanos (Saint Thomas of the bananas) was not the original seat of the municipality of Santo Tomás. The original Santo Tomás was flooded due to a hydroelectric dam that was built in 1945. This dam and its hydroelectric plant are of great economic importance to the region. Curiously, the church tower of the old town can still be seen rising above the water of the reservoir. The current Santo Tomas has a central garden surrounded by trees and a church.
The population of the town as of 2005 was 2,823 people.
As municipal seat, Santo Tomás de los Plátanos has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: San José Barbechos (Los Barbechos), Cieneguillas, La Laguna, El Ocotal, Potrero de Abajo (Colonia Guadalupe), Potrero de Arriba (La Ceiba), Ojo de Agua, Rincón Grande, Salitre de Cal (El Zapote), Salitre Terreros, San Miguel San de Mialma, San Pedro el Chico, San Pedro el Grande, San Pedro Ixtapantongo (Ixtapantongo), Santa Bárbara, Poblado de Santo Tomás (El Puerto San Isidro), Tacuitapan, Pueblo Viejo, Rincón Vivero (El Maracaná), El Llano, Las Canoas, El Jocoyol (San José el Jocoyol), El Salitre Bramador, El Aguacate, El Anono, Potrero de Abajo (Granadillo), El Sifón, Las Fincas, El Pedregal, Rincón Chico, Los Nogales, El Aguacate, El Plan, and Frontón Vivero.
It has a territorial extension of 110.91 square kilometers, and the population total for the municipality in 2005 was 8,888. It borders with the municipalities of Ixtapan del Oro, Valle de Bravo and Otzoloapan, as well as the state of Michoacán to the west.
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