Zumpango

19.796944444444 - 99.099166666667Koordinaten: 19 ° 48 'N, 99 ° 6' W

Zumpango is a municipality in the Mexican state of México. It belongs to the Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México, the metropolitan region around Mexico City. The seat of the municipality is Zumpango de Ocampo. The community had in 2010 159.647 inhabitants, its surface area is 224.8 km ².

The name comes from the Nahuatl Zumpango: tzompantli means " skull wall," and co - means "place, location " Zumpango So something like " place of the skull wall."

Geography

Zumpango located in the north of the State of Mexico, about 55 kilometers north of Mexico City. Most of the Municipalities is used for agriculture.

The municipality borders the Municipalities Zumpango Tequixquiac, Hueypoxtla, Tecámac, Nextlalpan, Jaltenco, Teoloyucan, Coyotepec and Huehuetoca and to the municipality Tizayuca in the neighboring federal state of Hidalgo.

Population

Zumpango counted 159 647 inhabitants in 2010. Only about one percent of the population are speakers of an indigenous language Zumpangos.

Places

Zumpango includes 68 locations, of which five have more than 10,000 inhabitants and a further 13 have at least 1,500 inhabitants. The main towns are:

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