Zacatlán Municipality
| Zacatlán Municipality | |
|---|---|
| Municipality | |
| Country |
 Mexico
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| State | Puebla |
| Time zone | Central Standard Time (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | Central Daylight Time (UTC-5) |
Zacatlán Municipality is a municipality in Puebla in south-eastern Mexico.
The city of Zacatlán is the seat of government for itself and other communities, forming a municipality which covers 512.82km2. This municipality borders the municipalities of Chiconcuautla, Huauchinango, Aquixtla, Chignahuapan, Ahuacatlán, Tepetzintla, Tetela de Ocampo and Ahuazotepec with the state of Hidalgo to the west. The municipal government is formed by a municipal president, an officer called a síndico, and eight representatives called regidors. It has commissions related to governing, taxes, health, education, industry and commerce, public works, environment and agriculture.
The population of the municipality has grown from 62,788 in 1995 to 76,296 in 2010. About ninety percent of the population is Catholic with the rest Protestant or Evangelist. The main indigenous ethnicities in the area are Nahua and Totonac, with 7,450 people who spoke an indigenous language as of 2005. Most of the indigenous population lives outside of the city of Zacatlán, especially in San Miguel Tenango. Nahuatl is the dominant indigenous language, locally called Mehcanohtlahtol. It is estimated that there are nearly 17,000 Nahuatl speakers in Zacatlán and the neighboring municipalities of Ahuacatlán and Tepetzintla. The Nahuatl dialect spoken here is closest to that spoken in Zacapoaxtla and Huauchinango.
Traditional dress for women includes short sleeved blouses with embroidery around the neck (tlahmach cmaisahtli), a white poncho called a quezquémetl, also embroidered and a black skirt or wrap with stripes (ilpicatl), which is often accompanies by large numbers of necklaces, ribbons in the hair, blue huarache sandals, large earrings and sometimes with a wrap for carrying small children. For men, it consists of pants and shirt of undyed cotton, a hat of palm fronds, huaraches and a black or brown wool overcoat. Variations in the clothing style and embroidery generally indicates the wearers’ origin.
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