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Mixtlán

municipality in the State of Jalisco, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ3175234 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mixtlán is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 631 square kilometres (244 sq mi). It first became a Municipality on October 20, 1938. In its native Náhuatl, Mixtlán means place of clouds.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 3279.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mixtlán” is municipality in the State of Jalisco, Mexico. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mixtlán, municipality and State, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-10-20. For this dossier, Mixtlán, municipality and State is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “municipality in the State of Jalisco, Mexico” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3175234. Authority coordinates are 20.500, -104.433. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938 and 2005.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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 “Mixtlán” 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.