Tlaxcoapan is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 79.3 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 26,758. It is now part of Tula de Allende built-up (or metro) area.

Toponymy

The word Tlanalapa comes from the Nahuatl Tachtli 'ball game', atl 'water' and pan 'on'; so its meaning is "On or in the river of the ball game". Another meaning could be that it decomposes into Tlachco (from tlachtli 'ball game' and the locative -co 'en') 'in the ball game' or literally 'ball game court'; atl 'water', and the locative suffix -pan 'over'; so

Demography

Populated places in Tlaxcoapan