Tonayán
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Tonayán is a municipality located in the south zone in the Mexican state of Veracruz, about 20 km from the state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 74.03 km2. It is located at . ==Name== The name comes from the language Náhuatl, Tonali-tona-yan; that means “Place where it dawns".
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Within Vinony's link graph, Tonayán is referenced by 237 other articles, and connects out to Carrillo Puerto Municipality, Mexico and coffee.
The entry is geolocated on the map in MX, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Municipalities of Veracruz.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tonayán
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City and municipal seat
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico Veracruz#Mexico
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Veracruz
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Capital Region
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal President
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 75
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 5293
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Municipality
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Veracruz
- Population
- 5670
- Elevation
- 1959
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Name
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Tonayán is a municipality located in the south zone in the Mexican state of Veracruz, about 20 km from the state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 74.03 km2. It is located at . ==Name== The name comes from the language Náhuatl, Tonali-tona-yan; that means “Place where it dawns".
==History== Tonayán was founded as village between the year 1552 and 1564 when a group of inhabitants of the old village of Misantla established in this place to take care of its boundaries that were feeling threatened by the agrarian invasions of the village of Chapultepec.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tonayán” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations