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Tanquián de Escobedo

municipality in the State of San Luis Potosí, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ3845846 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tanquián de Escobedo is a town and municipality in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.

Demographics

Tanquián de Ecosbedo's population has a population of 14,382, 83% of which are Catholic. 25% of the population is indigenous or is of indigenous descent. Its most populous town of the same name has a population of 9458 according to the 2020 INEGI census.

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“Tanquián de Escobedo” enters the record as municipality in the State of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tanquián, Escobedo and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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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 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3845846. Authority coordinates are 21.608, -98.664. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tanquián de Escobedo” 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.