It is located between the parallels 99° 27’ 51” and 99° 37’ 32” west longitude, and 18° 41’ 35” and 18° 55’ 22” north latitude. Hueypoxtla borders Zumpango. It covers a total surface area of 201.54 km2 at an altitude of 6,634 ft. In the year 2005 census by INEGI, it reported a population of 39,864. The town of Hueypoxtla, a municipal seat, has governing jurisdiction over the following communities or towns: Santa María Ajolopan, San Francisco Zacacalco, Tinguistongo, Guadalupe Nopala, Emiliano Zapata and Casa Blanca. The total municipality extends 96.37 and borders with the municipalities of Apaxco, Tequixquiac, Zumpango and the state of Hidalgo. Other Río Salado of Hueypoxtla river connect with Gran Canal. The municipal seat is in a small, elongated valley but most of the municipality is a transitions from the Valley of Mexico to the Mezquital Valley. The highest mountain the Picacho in the Sierra Tezontlalpa, it rises above sea level, on the border between the municipalities of Hueypoxtla and Apaxco.
Flora and fauna
Hueypoxtla is big municipality but only there is a part of Sierra de Tetzontlalpan a mountain region with oak, yucca, huizache, mesquite and pirul, mainly has got semi-desert plains named Lomas de España with Zumpango municipality. The plants are fruit trees as capulin, white zapote, avocado, tejocote, and cactus as prickly pears, chollas, and others. Spanish people, in colonial period, planted here olive trees, pomegranates, figs and vineyards by soil acidity. The animals are cacomistle, skunk, opossum, bobcat, coyote, rabbit, hare, the birds are turkey vulture, falcon, eagle, quail, owl, roadrunner, crow and various kinds of insects and reptils.
History
In Hueypoxtla, fossils of plants and animal species from the Cretaceous have been found. While there is no evidence in this municipality about human groups, the proximity with Tequixquiac municipality, the place where the sacrum bone was found, leads one to think that humans inhabited this region. Around 1219 the altepetl of Hueypoxtla was founded by Chichimecas under places named Iztatzacuala by Huitzitl, a chichimeca man. When arrived here, nahuas and otomis, founded Teotlalpan; it's possible that this region has been called Teotlalpan by the existence of lime areas, a material used for the building of teocallis, devoted houses built for religious activities.
The economy is principally farming, cattle raising and small businesses, concentrating on the production of corn, beans and fruit. Tourists are attracted by its climate and some notable churches, as well as some ecotourism attractions. It has an unexplored archeological zone.
Presa Luis Espinoza de Hueypoxtla is an old dam built in century XIX.
Casa Blanca hacienda is a Spanish building connecting with other haciendas and old towns.
Food and drinks
People
Javier Ramirez Flores, a respected man at the age of 94, has contributed greatly to the education platform in Hueypoxtla. Many educational facilities have been enforced through his effort. He was close to a superintendent of schools throughout this region. A primary school in Hueypoxtla was named in his name. Not to miss, Javier Ramirez was also once Municipal President of Hueypoxtla.
Narciso García Flores, teacher, poet and writer, was an intellectual of Mexican Revolution.
