Atenguillo
municipality in the State of Jalisco, Mexico
Atenguillo is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 610.2 km2.
As of 2005, the municipality had a population of 4107.
“Atenguillo” enters the record as municipality in the State of Jalisco, Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Atenguillo, municipality and State can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Atenguillo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Atenguillo, municipality and State provides the most credible route into that argument.
Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2868961. Authority coordinates are 20.333, -104.550. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.
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