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Huejotitán

municipal seat of Huejotitán, State of Chihuahua, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ3895275 ↗
Source-derived summary

Huejotitán is a village and seat of the municipality of Huejotitán, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2020, Huejotitán had a population of 824, up from 345 as of 2010.

Huejotitan was the site of a Jesuit mission to the Tarahumara established about 1640 by missionaries José Pascual and Nicolás de Zepeda.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Huejotitán” as municipal seat of Huejotitán, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2020, 2010, 1640—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1639. The account is most persuasive where Huejotitán, municipal and seat can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipal seat of Huejotitán, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Dec 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3895275. Authority coordinates are 27.056, -106.179. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2010 and 1640.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Huejotitán” 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.