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Concepción Pápalo

municipal seat of Concepción Pápalo, State of Oaxaca, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ3893052 ↗
Source-derived summary

Concepción Pápalo is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 94.4 km2.

It is part of the Cuicatlán District in the north of the Cañada Region.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 2,920.

Moth Homoeocera papalo is named after the town.

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“Concepción Pápalo” enters the record as municipal seat of Concepción Pápalo, State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Concepción, Pápalo and municipal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Concepción, Pápalo and municipal.
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This entry incorporates text from “Concepción Pápalo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.