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Map of Mexico with Puebla highlighted. Puebla is a state in central Mexico that is divided into 217 municipalities.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the fifth most populated state with 6,583,278 inhabitants and the 21st largest by land area spanning 34,309.6 square kilometres (13,247.0 sq mi).
August 22 – Mexico – A bus collided with a trailer truck in Tehuacan on the Cuacnopalan-Oaxaca highway near the border between Oaxaca and Puebla States, killing 16 and injuring 36. [ 474 ] September 1 – Iraq – Two minibuses carrying pilgrims for Arbaeen collided in Saladin Governorate , killing 16 and injuring 13.
August 19, 1930, near Puebla a locomotive collided into a bus. Four die and seven are injured [97] January 30, 1969, a bus - train collision near Puebla is settled with a balance of 14 killed and 4 injured [98] April 11, 1971. In San Cristóbal Ecatepec a bus-train collision left seven dead and 12 injured. [99]
Puebla has many different climates owing to its range of altitudes. It has an average temperature of 16 °C (61 °F) but this varies greatly locally. There is a rainy season from May until October with an overall precipitation of 801 mm (31.54 in). The state has eleven different climate zones, but five predominate.
The Metropolitan area of Puebla or Greater Puebla is the fourth largest agglomeration in Mexico with a population of 3.199 million. [2] This agglomeration includes 10 municipalities of the state of Puebla, and 13 municipalities of the state of Tlaxcala. It does not include the city of Tlaxcala.
Writ to recognize Puebla as City signed by Spain's queen Isabella of Portugal, municipal archive. Some historians consider that the area where the city is located nowadays was not inhabited in the Pre-Columbian era, except in the 15th century, when this valley was set aside for use for the so-called Flower wars among the populations of Itzocan, Tepeaca, Huejotzingo, Texmelucan and Tlaxcala ...
According to Alma Guillermoprieto of The New Yorker magazine, [23] Stefanie Eschenbacher of Reuters news service, [24] and a number of other sources, [25] [26] tens of thousands of people in Mexico have gone missing since 2006, a problem that started with a wave of violence unleashed by the "War on Drugs" declared by President Felipe Calderón and his mobilising of the Mexican armed forces to ...
Tepeaca is located 35 km (21.75 mi) from the city of Puebla and is the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Its name comes from a Spanish variant of "Tepeyacac" composed of the Nahuatl words tepetl ("hill") and yacatl ("nose tip, which is in the foreground") (can be translated in various ways: "in the top of the hill" or "the ...