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El Tuito
Town in Jalisco, Mexico / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
El Tuito (spelling: "el tweet-oh") is a Mexican agricultural town situated South of the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas in the Region Costa-Sierra Occidental[2] of the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is the administrative and municipal seat of the municipality of Cabo Corrientes.
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El Tuito | |
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![]() Location of the municipality of Cabo Corrientes within the state of Jalisco | |
Coordinates: 20°19′11″N 105°19′38″W | |
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Municipality | Cabo Corrientes |
Founded | 16th Century |
Founded as | El Tuito |
Government | |
• Municipal president of Cabo Corrientes | Miguel Ángel Silva Ramírez[1] (PVEM ![]() |
Elevation | 600 m (1,969 ft) |
Population (2019 (locality)) | |
• Total | 3,211 |
• Municipality | 9,034 |
• Demonym | Tuitense |
Time zone | UTC−6 (Central (US Central)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (Central) |
Postal code | 48400 |
Area code | +52 322 |
Website | Cabo Corrientes Municipality official government site |
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El Tuito name means "small valley" or "place of beauty". The meaning of the word Tuito comes from the Nahuatl words "Teotl": god, Tiul, Tuitlán: which can mean: "place of [a] god" or "divine place" or "place of beauty".