Tlalmanalco
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 Tlalmanalco
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| Coordinates: 19°12′16″N 98°48′09″W / 19.20444°N 98.80250°WCoordinates: 19°12′16″N 98°48′09″W / 19.20444°N 98.80250°W | |
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 Mexico
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| State | State of Mexico |
| Founded | 1336 |
| Municipal Status | 1821 |
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| • Municipal President | Rubén Reyes Cardoso 2013-2015 |
| Elevation (of seat) | 2,400 m (7,900 ft) |
| Population (2010) Municipality | |
| • Municipality | 46,130 |
| • Seat | 14,664 |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| Postal code (of seat) | 56700 |
| Area code(s) | 597 |
| Website | (Spanish) / www.tlalmanalco.com/ |
Tlalmanalco is a town and municipality located in the far south-eastern part of the State of Mexico. The name is from the Nahuatl language, meaning “flat area.” The municipality’s seal shows flat land, with a pyramid on it, representing its pre-Hispanic history, surrounded by small mountains, which is how the area was represented in Aztec codices. The municipality is bordered by the municipalities of Chalco, Ixtapaluca, Cocotitlan, Temamatla, Tenango del Aire, Ayapango and Amecameca. It also shares a border with the neighboring state of Puebla. Much of the municipality borders the Iztaccihuatl-Popocatepetl National Park. For this reason, Iztaccihuatl volcano dominates the landscape. The town has been designated as a “Pueblo con Encanto” (Town with Charm) by the government of the State of Mexico.
According to archeological findings, there was a village stronghold in the area from about 3,100 to 600 B.C. The archeological zone is located just to the northwest of the main plaza of the town. Groups such as the Xochteca, Cocolca, Olmec-Xicallanca and Quiyahuizteca populated the area between the 10th and 13th centuries. However, these groups were later driven from here by the Toltecs and the Chichimecas. A subgroup of these two tribes, called the Nonohualcas, arrived to the area in the 13th century and formed a city-state in what is now Tlalmanalco in 1336. This city-state formed an alliance with ethnically-related populations such as those in Amaquemecan, Chimalhuacan and Tenango Tepopollan. This area was one of the last to be conquered by the Aztecs, but after 100 years of fighting, the alliance succumbed in 1465.
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