San Salvador Huixcolotla
San Salvador Huixcolotla is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla 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".San Salvador Huixcolotla
- Type: Town with 12,100 residents
- Category: locality
- Location: Puebla, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
18.9219° or 18° 55′ 19″ northLongitude
-97.7708° or 97° 46′ 15″ westPopulation
12,100Elevation
2,045 metres (6,709 feet)Open location code
76C4W6CH+QMOpenStreetMap ID
node 448081532OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
8583190
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“San Salvador Huixcolotla” goes by many names.
- French: “San Salvador Huixcolotla”
- German: “Municipio San Salvador Huixcolotla”
- Spanish: “Municipio de San Salvador Huixcolotla”
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