Tecozautla
Tecozautla is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 575.6 km2. The name derives from the Nahuatl words "tetl", meaning "stone"; "cozaqui", meaning "yellow thing"; and "tla", meaning "place of"; making the entire meaning of Tecozautla "place where yellow earth abounds".
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 31,609. In 2017 there were 2,415 inhabitants who spoke an Indigenous [languages of Mexico|indigenous language], primarily Mezquital Otomi. The town was declared a "Pueblo Mágico" in 2015.
Toponymy
The name Tecozautla comes from the Nahuatl tetl -stone-, cozauqui -yellow thing- and tla which means -place of-; which together means "Place where the yellow earth abounds".Geography
Relief and hydrographic
As for physiography it is located within the province of the Neovolcanic Axis; within the subprovince of Sierras y Llanuras de Querétaro and Hidalgo.As for its geology it corresponds to the Neogene period, Cretaceous and Quaternary. With Extrusive igneous type rocks: basalt, acid tuff, volcanoclastic, basic tuff-basic volcanic breccia, acid tuff-acid volcanic breccia and rhyolite-acid tuff ; sedimentary: sandstone–conglomerate and limestone ; soil: alluvial. Regarding pedology the dominant soil is phaeozem, vertisol, calcisol and leptosol.
With regard to hydrology it is positioned in the hydrological region of the Pánuco River; in the basins of the Moctezuma River; within the sub-basins of the Tula River, San [Juan River (Querétaro)|San Juan River], Tecozautla River and Alfajayucan River. It also has a dam, wells and springs.