Tetecala
City and Municipality in Morelos, Mexico / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tetecala is a city in the Mexican state of Morelos.
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Tetecala | |
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City and Municipality | |
Tetecala de la Reforma | |
Coordinates: 18°43′N 99°23′W | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Morelos |
Founded | 1583[1] |
City | December 11, 1873 |
Municipal seat | May 17, 1930 |
Area | |
• Municipality | 53.26 km2 (20.56 sq mi) |
Elevation (of seat) | 994 m (3,261 ft) |
Population (2010) Municipality | |
• Municipality | 6,473[2] |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
Postal code (of seat) | 62620 |
Area code | 751 |
Website | Official site (in Spanish) |
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The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality, with which it shares a name. The toponym Tetecala comes from a Nahuatl name and means "place of stone houses".[3] The full name of the town is Tetecala de la Reforma because the Laws of the Reforma were signed there in the mid-19th century.[4]
The municipality reported 7,772 inhabitants in the 2015 census.[5]