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City & municipal seat in Zacatecas, Mexico From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mazapil is a locality in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. It serves as the municipal seat of the eponymous Mazapil Municipality.
Mazapil | |
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Coordinates: 24°38′18″N 101°33′19″W | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Zacatecas |
Municipality | Mazapil |
Founded | 1568 |
Elevation | 2,268 m (7,441 ft) |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 1,262 |
Area code | 842 |
Mazapil's name derives from the Nahuatl place name Mazatlpilli, itself derived from mazatl "deer" and pilli "small".[2]
The original inhabitants of the Mazapil valley were nomadic Chichimeca peoples known to the Spaniards as Guachichiles. Francisco de Ibarra reached the area in 1554. In 1562, Pedro de Ahumada y Samano reported finding the valley inhabited by 6000 native warriors armed with bows and arrows. Silver mines were first established in the valley in the late 1560s.[3]
Mazapil became the seat of its namesake municipality, which was one of Zacatecas's eleven original subdivisions (then known as partidos) when the state's constitution was enacted in 1825.[4]
Mazapil is one of the 175 localities in Mazapil Municipality,[1] and it is the only one that is classified as urban. Located in the northeast corner of the municipality, it recorded a population of 1,262 in the 2020 census,[5] up from 794 inhabitants in the 2010 Census.[6]
The main economic activities in Mazapil are mining and agriculture.[2]
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