Huejutla de Reyes | |
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Municipality and town | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Huejutla de Reyes Location in Hidalgo | |
| Coordinates: 21°08′N 98°25′W / 21.133°N 98.417°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Hidalgo |
| Municipal seat | Huejutla de Reyes |
| Area | |
| • Total | 377.8 km2 (145.9 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 115,786 |
Huejutla de Reyes is a city and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The name comes from the Nahuatl huexotl ("willow") and tlan ("place"),[1] while "de Reyes" commemorates local cobbler Antonio Reyes Cabrera who died defending Huejutla from French invaders in 1866.[2]
The municipality covers an area of 377.8 km2 in the northeast of Hidalgo, in the Huasteca region, on the border with the state of Veracruz. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 115,786.[3] but only 36,305 live in the metropolitan area, whereas the remaining population live in various small communities. Around 73,200 people speak indigenous languages, primarily Huasteca Nahuatl.[4]
It has been called "the Heart of La Huasteca".[5]
- ^ "Municipio de Huejutla".
- ^ "Municipio de Huejutla".
- ^ "Huejutla de Reyes". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
- ^ Báez Cubero, Lourdes; Garret Ríos, Gabriela; Pérez González, David; Moreno Alcántara, Beatriz; Fierro Alonso, Ulises Julio; Hernández García, Milton Gabriel (2012). Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ed.). Los pueblos indígenas de Hidalgo: Atlas etnográfico (PDF) (Primera ed.). México, D.F; México. pp. 32–35. ISBN 978-607-484-357-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Huejutla, el corazón de la Huasteca hidalguense". Hidalgo Brilla (in Spanish). 4 December 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2023.