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San Pedro Totolapa

municipality in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3893688 ↗
Source-derived summary

San Pedro Totolapa is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico.

It is part of the Tlacolula District in the east of the Valles Centrales Region.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 2,603.

Editorial summary

“San Pedro Totolapa” enters the record as municipality in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pedro, Totolapa and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pedro, Totolapa and municipality.
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Why this record matters

“San Pedro Totolapa” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pedro, Totolapa and municipality provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3893688. Authority coordinates are 16.660, -96.237. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “San Pedro Totolapa” 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.