Cuautitlán

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title: "Cuautitlán" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cuautitlán", "mexico-city-metropolitan-area", "populated-places-in-the-state-of-mexico", "nahua-settlements", "municipalities-of-the-state-of-mexico"] topic_path: "geography/mexico" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuautitlán" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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name	Cuautitlán
native_name
settlement_type	Town & Municipality
total_type	Municipality
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image_caption	Ubicación de Cuautitlán
dot_x
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subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	State of Mexico
leader_title	Municipal President
leader_name	Aldo Ledezma Reyna (2022–2024)
leader_title1
established_title	Founded
established_title2	Municipal Status
established_date2	1861
unit_pref
area_total_km2	40.9
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2020
population_footnotes
population_total	178,847
population_density_km2	4,376.8
population_blank1_title	Seat
population_blank1	97,686
timezone	CST
utc_offset	-6
coordinates
elevation_point	of seat
elevation_m	2250
postal_code_type	Postal code (of seat)
postal_code	54800
area_code	55
blank1_name	Demonym
blank1_info	Cuautitlense
website	http://www.cuautitlan.gob.mx
footnotes	Also sometimes called Cuautitlán de Romero Rubio after a former administrative division, to better differentiate it from Cuautitlán Izcalli.
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Cuautitlán (, Otomi: Nza), is a municipality in the State of Mexico, just north of the northern tip of the Federal District (Distrito Federal) within the Greater Mexico City urban area. The city of Cuautitlán is the municipal seat and makes up most of the municipality. The name comes from Nahuatl and means 'between the trees.'

City and municipal seat

In the Mexican national census of 2020, the municipality recorded an overall population of 178,847. The great majority of these inhabitants — some 117,995 people — resided in the urban confines of the city of Cuautitlán itself.

History

Cuautitlán as an urban center began in the mid-14th century, though its general area had long been settled before that. It was settled by Chichimec, who worshipping Mixcoatl and Itzpapalotl and had hostile relations with Xaltocan and the Tepanec. It later received refugees from Colhuacan and Xaltocan, who introduced a Toltec culture including the festival of Izcalli and the cult of Toci, 9 Monkey and Xochiquetzal. It was under Azcapotzalco before being conquered by the Triple Alliance, whereafter it became a province under the domain of Tlacopan, divided into four further sub-provinces. The language in Cuautitlan was Nahuatl.

After the Conquest, Cuautitlán was evangelized by the Franciscans. They constructed San Buenaventura monastery and established the brotherhood of the Purísima Concepción de Nuestra Señora de Cuautitlán. Saint Juan Diego (1474–1548) reputedly lived there with his wife Maria Lucia up to the time of her death in 1529. They lived there in a one-roomed mud house thatched with corn stalks. The house still survives in a good state of preservation. Cuautitlán gained city status in 1968.

It is the birthplace of painter and sculptor Luis Nishizawa (1918–2014).

The municipality

As municipal seat, Cuautitlán has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: Colonia Venecia, Ejido de Santa Bárbara, Ex-hacienda la Corregidora (La Corregidora), Fracción San Roque (El Prieto), Granja San Isidro, Hacienda San Mateo, La Chinampa, La Laguna, La Trinidad, Machero, Rancho Puente la Cruz, San Mateo Ixtacalco, Santa María Huecatitla, and Xaltipa (Jaltipa).

The municipality has an area of 40.9 km2 (15.8 sq mi).

Notable people

Chimalxochitl II - Queen consort of the Cuautitlan Kingdom

Luis Nishizawa - Painter and sculptor

References

References

1. (2021). "Panorama sociodemográfico de México, 2020". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI).
2. "Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mexico Estado de Mexico Cuautitlán".
3. (1979). "The Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization".
4. (2015). "Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 10 And 11: Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica". University of Texas Press.
5. (1996). "Political Organization of the Central Provinces". Aztec Imperial Strategies.
6. (1993). "A guide to the historical geography of New Spain". University of Oklahoma Press.

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