Tenochtitlán, Veracruz
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Tenochtitlán is a municipality (municipio) in the Mexican State of Veracruz
, southeastern Mexico
, and the name of the main township which serves as the seat of the municipal government. It is located in the foothills of the Sierra Madre
, with the township lying at an altitude of approximately 900 m (2953ft) above mean sea level
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In the year 2000 census, the municipality reported a total population of slightly over 5600 people.
The same census also revealed that the municipality had no hotels, no restaurants, no cafeterias, no bars, and no discothèques or night-clubs. http://www.tenochtitlan.gob.mx/secciones.php?seccion=turismo&cx=163
The town and the municipality are both named after Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire
prior to the Spanish conquest.
Veracruz
Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave , is one of the 31 states that, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided in 212 municipalities and its capital city is...
, southeastern Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, and the name of the main township which serves as the seat of the municipal government. It is located in the foothills of the Sierra Madre
Sierra Madre Oriental
The Sierra Madre Oriental is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico.-Setting:Spanning the Sierra Madre Oriental runs from Coahuila south through Nuevo León, southwest Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, and Hidalgo to northern Puebla, where it joins with the east-west running Eje Volcánico...
, with the township lying at an altitude of approximately 900 m (2953ft) above mean sea level
Above mean sea level
The term above mean sea level refers to the elevation or altitude of any object, relative to the average sea level datum. AMSL is used extensively in radio by engineers to determine the coverage area a station will be able to reach...
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In the year 2000 census, the municipality reported a total population of slightly over 5600 people.
The same census also revealed that the municipality had no hotels, no restaurants, no cafeterias, no bars, and no discothèques or night-clubs. http://www.tenochtitlan.gob.mx/secciones.php?seccion=turismo&cx=163
The town and the municipality are both named after Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire
Aztec
The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.Aztec is the...
prior to the Spanish conquest.