Ocotlán (from the

Nahuatl Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have small ...

''ocotl'' ("pine tree"), meaning "place of pines") is a city in the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate en ...

Tlaxcala Tlaxcala (; , ; from nah, Tlaxcallān ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is ...

, located in the centre of that state within the conurbation of the

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, Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl. The , dedicated to the Virgin of Ocotlán, a 1541

Marian apparition A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance by Mary, the mother of Jesus, or a series of related such appearances during a period of time. In the Catholic Church, in order for a reported appearance to be classified as a Marian a ...

, is a site of Roman Catholic pilgrimage. In the 2005 INEGI census, Ocotlán reported a population of 22,082, making it the largest settlement in the

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: more populous even than the state capital, which reported 15,777. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER)
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Nuestra Señora de Ocotlán
''(México Desconocido)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Ocotlan, Tlaxcala Populated places in Tlaxcala