Zimapán ( Otomi: Mabo̱za) is a town and one of the 84

municipalities of Hidalgo Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo is a Administrative divisions of Mexico#States, state in central Mexico divided into 84 municipalities of Mexico, municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, Hidalgo is the States of Mexico, 16th most populous st ...

, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of . The name Zimapán derives from the

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words "cimatl", meaning "cimate" (a root used to ferment pulque) and "pan", meaning "inside or over"; which makes the meaning of Zimapán "over the cimate" or "in the cimate". As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 39,927. Zimapán has a regional hospital and seven health centers. It also has 32 Casas de Salud, or health houses.

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is located in the municipality, northeast of the town in the

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History

The land was place for Otomi and Quinamí indigenous people, which later received influence from Olmecs and Nahuas. In 1522, after the Conquista, Spanish colonalists founded the city of Zimapán. Augustinian friars built the first church of Zimapán in the XVIII Century and later they built another, which building ended in 1822.

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was discovered by first time here in 1801 by Andrés Manuel del Río. During the

Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...

, General Otilio Villegas won a battle for the "

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" in Zimapán. The city was declared a " Pueblo Mágico" in 2018.

References

Municipalities of Hidalgo (state) Populated places in Hidalgo (state) Otomi settlements Pueblos Mágicos {{Hidalgo-geo-stub