Chilcuautla (

Otomi The Otomi (; ) are an Indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region. The Otomi are an Indigenous people of the Americas who inhabit a discontinuous territory in central Mexico. They are linguistically rel ...

: ʼMiza) is a town and one of the 84

municipalities of Hidalgo Hidalgo is a state in central Mexico divided into 84 municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican census, Hidalgo is the 16th most populous state with inhabitants and the 26th largest by land area spanning . Municipalities in Hidalgo are a ...

, in central-eastern

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. The municipality covers an area of 231.3 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 15,284. In 2017 there were 6,915 inhabitants who spoke an

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, primarily Mezquital Otomi.

Culture

The Hacienda Demiñho ruins is on the road that connects Tezontepec de Aldama with Tunititlán. It is semi-abandoned and in ruins. Some of the spaces are used to store fodder and as a barn by the people of the region. It has a great aesthetic value that can be seen in the main nave of the chapel and its bell tower with a conical body and a destroyed altar in the front wall.

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Municipalities of Hidalgo (state) Populated places in Hidalgo (state) {{Hidalgo-geo-stub

Culture

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