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Ocotlán (from the Nahuatl ocotl ("pine tree"), meaning "place of pines") is a city in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, located in the centre of that state within the conurbation of the state capital, Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl.
It is on the northeast end of Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest lake. As of 2010, the city had a population of 92,967. [ 7 ] The municipality of Ocotlán, which has an area of 247.7 km 2 (95.64 sq mi), as of 2020 had a population of 184,603 inhabitants, of which 50.9% were women and 49.1% were men.
The name Ocotlan is from Nahuatl and means "among the ocote trees" with the appendage "de Morelos" added in honor of José María Morelos y Pavón.During the colonial period the area was known as Santo Domingo Ocotlán due to the Dominican friars who created a monastery here dedicated to Saint Dominic.
The Central Valleys (Spanish: Valles Centrales) of Oaxaca, also simply known as the Oaxaca Valley, is a geographic region located within the modern-day state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. In an administrative context, it has been defined as comprising the districts of Etla , Centro , Zaachila , Zimatlán , Ocotlán , Tlacolula and Ejutla . [ 1 ]
The Río Grande de Santiago, or Santiago River, [3] is a river in western Mexico. It flows westwards from Lake Chapala via Ocotlán through the states of Jalisco and Nayarit to empty into the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the longest rivers in Mexico, measuring up 433 km (269 mi) long.
There are 781 houses, most of them are privately owned. 96 percent of people take advantage of street lighting, 70 percent of the cities water, and 10 percent take advantage of the sewer and garbage pickup service. The paved roads connect the town with San Dionisio Ocotlan and San Pedro Apóstol. The media channels are local although people can ...
After firing up Google’s map software to plan a camping trip in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, he told CBC, he found the curve of what turned out to be a roughly nine-mile-diameter pit near a ...
Lake Chapala (Spanish: Lago de Chapala, ⓘ) has been Mexico's largest freshwater lake since the desiccation of Lake Texcoco in the early 17th century. [ 2 ] It borders both the states of Jalisco and Michoacán , being located within the municipalities of Ocotlán , Chapala , Jocotepec , Poncitlán , and Jamay , in Jalisco , and in Venustiano ...