San Salvador Huixcolotla

San Salvador Huixcolotla is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of that may be best known as the birthplace of papel picado. San Salvador is of Spanish origin and translates to "Holy Savior" and Huixcolotla is Nahuatl for "place of the curved spines".
Wikipedia
  • Type: Locality with 12,100 residents
  • Description: municipality in the State of Puebla, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Huixcolotla”, “Huizcolotla”, and “San Salvador Huixcolotla Municipality”

San Salvador Huixcolotla

Latitude
18.92073° or 18° 55′ 15″ north
Longitude
-97.77166° or 97° 46′ 18″ west
Population
12,100
Elevation
2,044 metres (6,706 feet)
Open location code
76C4W6CH+78
Geo­Names ID
3517829
Wiki­data ID
Q6119693
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“San Salvador Huixcolotla” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “conceyu de San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Asturian: “San Salvador Huixcolotla (conceyu de Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “San Salvador Huixcolotla (Puebla, Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Basque: “San Salvador Huixcolotla (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Catalan: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Cebuano: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Dutch: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Esperanto: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • French: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Friulian: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Georgian: “სან-სალვადორ-უისკოლოტლა”
  • Italian: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Serbian: “Општина Сан Салвадор Уисколотла”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština San Salvador Huixcolotla, Puebla”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Spanish: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Swedish: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Uzbek: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Venetian: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
  • Vietnamese: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”

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