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Tecámac

municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ1961264
Source-derived summary

Tecámac is a municipality in State of Mexico in Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 157.34 km2 (60.75 sq mi). The municipal seat lies in the town (locality) of Tecámac de Felipe Villanueva. Its largest town, Ojo de Agua, with a population of 242,283 inhabitants, is the largest locality in Mexico that is not a municipal seat.

As of the 2020 census, the municipality had a total population of 547,500, with most people residing in Ojo de Agua.

Geography

The town of Tecámac de Villanueva, a municipal seat, has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: Ozumbilla, Santa María Ajoloapan, San Lucas Xolox, Los Reyes Acozac and Ojo de Agua. The total municipality extends 157.34 km2 and borders with the municipalities of Zumpango, Temascalapa, Tonanitla, Teotihuacán and Ecatepec de Morelos.

Infrastructure

Felipe Ángeles International Airport is located within the municipalities Zumpango and Tecámac.

Tecámac Power Center is an important shopping destination for Tecámac and surrounding municipalities, 812,000 square feet (75,400 m2) in area, anchored by Cinépolis cinemas, FunCentral (entertainment area), Home Depot, Sam's Club, Suburbia, and Walmart.

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

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—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1825-09-12. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tecámac, municipality and State.
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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 Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1961264. Authority coordinates are 19.700, -98.967. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from Tecámac” 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.