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Ecatepec

Central America

Ecatepec de Morelos is a municipality and city in the State of Mexico, immediately north of Mexico City and the most populous suburb of Greater Mexico City, with a 2020 census population of 1,645,352. Its Nahuatl name means windy hill or hill devoted to the wind god Ehecatl, and it was ruled by a line of Aztec tlatoque from 1428 until the Spanish conquest; independence hero Jose Maria Morelos was executed there in 1815, and the settlement was not declared a city until 1 December 1980 after decades of rapid growth.

Facts
Population
1,645,352 1
Area (sq km)
156.2 1
Founding Year
1877 2
Population Estimate Year
2020 1
Elevation (m)
2250 1
Latitude
19.566667 degrees north 1
Longitude
99.04 degrees west 1
Elevation Band
Mountain 3
Climate Zone
Temperate 4
Time Zone
UTC-06:00 3
Sources
1. Ecatepec de Morelos - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, population_total
    1,645,352
  • Infobox, population_as_of
    2020
  • Infobox, area_total_km2
    156.2
  • Infobox, elevation_m
    2250
  • Wikidata claim P625 coordinate location (latitude component)
    19.566666666666666,-99.04
  • Wikidata claim P625 coordinate location (longitude component)
    19.566666666666666,-99.04
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2. Wikidata: Ecatepec
  • Wikidata Q15121208, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).
  • Wikidata Q15121208 P571 inception
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3. GeoNames: Ecatepec de Morelos - GeoNames
GeoNames
  • cities500 record 3529612
    19.60006 -99.04855 P PPLA2 MX 15 033 1645352 2242 America/Mexico_City
  • Place record, elevation
    Elevation ca. 2242 m
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4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 19.75, -99.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 19.75, -99.25
19.75 -99.25 Cwb
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Ecatepec (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Central America (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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