Hueypoxtla Municipality
Hueypoxtla is a municipality located in the Zumpango Region, the northeastern part of the state of Mexico in Mexico. The municipality is located at a northern pass leading out of the Valley of Mexico and Mezquital Valley. The name comes from Nahuatl meaning "place of great merchants". Geography. It is located between the parallels 99° 27’ 51” and 99° 37’ 32” west longitude, and 18° 41’ 35” and 18° 55’ 22” north latitude. Hueypoxtla borders Zumpango. It covers a total surface area of 201.54 km at an altitude of 6,634 ft. In the year  2005 census by INEGI, it reported a population of 39,864. The town of Hueypoxtla, a municipal seat, has governing jurisdiction over the following communities or towns: Santa María Ajolopan, San Francisco Zacacalco, Tinguistongo, Guadalupe Nopala, Emiliano Zapata and Casa Blanca. The municipality borders with the municipalities of Apaxco, Tequixquiac, Zumpango and the state of Hidalgo (Tizayuca, Tolcayuca, San Agustín Tlaxiaca and Ajacuba). Other Río Salado of Hueypoxtla river connect with Gran Canal. The municipal seat is in a small, elongated valley but most of the municipality is a transitions from the Valley of Mexico to the Mezquital Valley. The highest  mountain the Picacho in the Sierra Tezontlalpa, it rises above sea level, on the border between the municipalities of Hueypoxtla and Apaxco. Flora and fauna. Hueypoxtla is big municipality but only there is a part of Sierra de Tetzontlalpan a mountain region with oak, yucca, huizache, mesquite and pirul, mainly has got semi-desert plains named "Lomas de España" (Spain plains) with Zumpango municipality. The plants are fruit trees as capulin, white zapote, avocado, tejocote, and cactus as prickly pears, chollas, and others. Spanish people, in colonial period, planted here olive trees, pomegranates, figs and vineyards by soil acidity. The  animals are cacomistle, skunk, opossum, bobcat, coyote, rabbit, hare, the birds are turkey vulture, falcon, eagle, quail, owl, roadrunner, crow and various kinds of insects and reptiles. History. In Hueypoxtla, fossils of plants and animal species from the Cretaceous have been found. While there is no evidence in this municipality about human groups, the proximity with Tequixquiac municipality, the place where the sacrum bone was found, leads one to think that humans inhabited this region. Around 1219 the altepetl of Hueypoxtla was founded by Chichimecas under places named Iztatzacuala by Huitzitl, a chichimeca man. When arrived here, nahuas and otomis , founded Teotlalpan; it's possible that this region has been called Teotlalpan by the existence of lime areas, a material used for the building of "teocallis", devoted houses built for religious activities. Communication and transport. The Arco Norte, is a main highway that cross by Hueypoxtla, connect with Atlacomulco to San Martín Texmelucan; Santa María Ajoloapan is payment access to the highway. Economy. The economy is principally farming, cattle raising and small businesses, concentrating on the production of corn, beans and fruit. Tourists are attracted by its climate and some notable churches, as well as some ecotourism attractions. It has  an unexplored archeological zone.