San Gregorio Atzompa is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

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Puebla Puebla, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is Puebla City. Part of east-centr ...

in south-eastern

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Towns

Chipilo de Francisco Javier Mina

Chipilo de Francisco Javier Mina, known as Chipilo, is a small city located 12 kilometers south of the city of

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. It is located 2150 meters above sea level. Its official name honors the memory of

Francisco Javier Mina Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Meaning of the name Francisco In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comm ...

. The name for people originally from Chipilo is chipileño/chipileña. Most of the inhabitants of Chipilo speak chipileño, a variant of véneto.

Demography

According to the results of the 2020 Population and Housing Census carried out by the

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,The total population of San Gregorio Atzompa amounts to 9,671 people; of which 48.4% are men and 51.6% are women. The municipality includes a total of six towns in its territory. The main ones, considering their population o
Censo de 2020

Politics

List of Municipal Presidents * (2005 - 2008): RITO JORGE MENDEZ GOMEZ * (2008 - 2011): JOSE GUADALUPE TEAPILA RAMOS * (2011 - 2014): MARCOS CUAHUEY MARTINEZ * (2014 - 2018): HORACIO TLAHUEL ABRAJAN * (2018 - 2021): José Avelino Mario Merlo Zanella * (2021 - 2024): José Avelino Mario Merlo Zanella

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Chipilo Chipilo, officially known as Chipilo de Francisco Javier Mina, is a small city in the state of Puebla, Mexico. It is located south of the state capital Puebla, Puebla, at a height of above sea level. The name itself derives from Náhuatl, meani ...

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