Calnali
Municipality and town
Calnali is located in Hidalgo
Calnali
Calnali
Calnali is located in Mexico
Calnali
Calnali
Coordinates: 20°54′N 98°35′W / 20.900°N 98.583°W / 20.900; -98.583
Country Mexico
StateHidalgo
Municipal seatCalnali
Founded1730
Government
 • TypePartido Encuentro Social
 • MayorMiguel Jimenez Espinoza
Area
 • Total190.2 km2 (73.4 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)
 • Total17 163
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central)
Websitehttps://calnali.gob.mx/

Calnali is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 190.2 km². Calnali is a Nahuatl name meaning house on the other side of the river. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 15,815.[1]

The cabecera or municipal seat is primarily mestizo, while the outlying communities (including Papatlatla, Tula, Atempa, and Ahuacatlan) are heavily populated by Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people. The town's tianguis is held every Sunday morning in the central plaza and surrounding streets. Despite its small size, Calnali is important as a regional cultural center, hosting an annual music festival featuring local Bandas de Viento and huapango performers, as well as an annual festival of indigenous culture. Large celebrations are also held for the Day of the Dead, Carnival and 25 April which is the festival of Calnali's patron saint, San Marcos.

In the 2008 municipal elections, Calnali became the first and only municipality in Hidalgo to be governed by the progressive Convergencia party. In 2009, over the objections of the municipal administration, the Diocese of Huejutla temporarily suspended all Catholic Church functions in Calnali, including baptisms and funerals, in response to indigenous carnival activities on Ash Wednesday.[2] The municipal government reverted to the Partido Revolucionario Institucional in 2011.

Calnali supports six hotels, including three rustic eco-tourism lodges. The Centro de Investigaciones Cientifícas de las Huastecas 'Aguazarca' (CICHAZ) is located on the western outskirts of the municipal seat.

Central Calnali is located at 980 m elevation, and the entire municipality occupies the eastern slope of the Sierra Madre Oriental. The terrain is largely mountainous Veracruz moist forests fragmented by pasture and cropland. The Río Calnali and the Río Tula/Atempa, tributaries of the Río Conzintla and ultimately the Río Pánuco, traverse the municipality from west to east. Each of these rivers is a hybrid zone between two species of the swordtail fish Xiphophorus.

References

  1. ↑ "Calnali". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on June 3, 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Iglesia "castiga" a pueblo por su carnaval". El Universal. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
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