Xaltocan, Tlaxcala
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This article is about modern-day municipality in the state of Tlaxcala. For pre-Columbian city-state and island in the Valley of Mexico, see Xaltocan.
Xaltocan (also known as Jaltocan or Jaltocán)[1] is in Xaltocan Municipality in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. The name can mean either of two things in the Nahuatl language: either 'sandy ground of spiders' or 'where sand sowing'.[2] Xaltocan is also the name of the municipal seat.