San Salvador Huixcolotla
San Salvador Huixcolotla | |
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Municipality and town | |
Parroquia del Divino Salvador (Church of the Divine Savior) in the center of San Salvador Huixcolotla | |
Location of Puebla State in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 18°54′53″N 97°46′25″W / 18.91472°N 97.77361°W | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Puebla |
| Government | |
| • Presidente | C. Silvano Teodoro Mauricio (2018-2021) () |
| Area | |
• Total | 23.909 km2 (9.231 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,040 m (6,690 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 12,148 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Standard Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time) |
| Website | www |
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San Salvador Huixcolotla is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla in southeastern Mexico that may be best known as the birthplace of papel picado. San Salvador is of Spanish origin and translates to "Holy Savior" and Huixcolotla is Nahuatl for "place of the curved spines".