Naucalpan

Also known as Naucalpan de Juarez Municipality, Naucalpan Municipality, Naucalpan de Juárez, Naucalpan de Juarez

Naucalpan, officially Naucalpan de Juárez, is one of 125 Municipalities of Mexico State, and is located just northwest of Mexico City. The municipal seat is the city of Naucalpan de Juárez, which extends into the neighboring municipality of Huixquilucan.

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Naucalpan de Juárez is a municipality in Mexico State located just northwest of Mexico City, making it part of the greater metropolitan area. It is one of 125 municipalities in Mexico State and includes the city of Naucalpan de Juárez, which also extends into the neighboring municipality of Huixquilucan.

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Settlement.official_name: Naucalpan de Juárez
Settlement.name: Naucalpan
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.total_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_caption: Clockwise, from top: Torres de Satélite, Plaza Satélite, Cuatro Caminos metro station, Basilica of Our Lady of Remedies, San Francisco Chimalpa, El Conde
Settlement.image_shield: Im-Cn-topo.jpg
Settlement.image_map: Mexico Estado de Mexico Naucalpan location map.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Naucalpan in the State of Mexico
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 300
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: State of Mexico|23px State of Mexico ----
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Naucalpan
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Metro area
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Greater Mexico City
Settlement.established_title: Municipal Status
Settlement.established_date: January 1, 1826

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Wikidata facts

Population: 872320
Area: 156.630
Elevation: 2300
Official website: www.naucalpan.gob.mx
Image: Satelite Towers and Anillo Periferico BMAC.jpg
Dialing code: 55

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Commons category: Naucalpan de Juárez Municipality
postal code: 53000

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Contents

History
The city
The Virgin of Los Remedios
The municipality
Towns and villages
Economy
Twin towns – sister cities
Geography
Climate
Education
See also
References
External links

The name Naucalpan comes from Nahuatl and means "place of the four neighborhoods" or "four houses." Juárez was added to the official name in 1874 in honor of Benito Juárez. The history of the area begins with the Tlatilica who settled on the edges of the Hondo River between 1700 and 600 B.C.E., but it was the Mexica who gave it its current name when they dominated it from the 15th century until the Spanish conquest of the Mexica Empire. Naucalpan claims to be the area where Hernán Cortés rested on the "Noche Triste" as they fled Tenochtitlan in 1520, but this is disputed. It is the home of the Virgin of Los Remedios, a small image of the Virgin Mary which is strongly associated with the Conquest and is said to have been left here.