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Malinaltepec (municipality)

municipality in the State of Guerrero, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6743721 ↗
Source-derived summary

Malinaltepec is a municipality in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The municipality covers an area of 492 km2.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 26,613.

Editorial summary

“Malinaltepec (municipality)” enters the record as municipality in the State of Guerrero, Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Malinaltepec, municipality and State can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. 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 Malinaltepec, municipality and State.
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Why this record matters

“Malinaltepec (municipality)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Malinaltepec, municipality and State provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 May 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6743721. Authority coordinates are 17.184, -98.687. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Malinaltepec (municipality)” 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.