Poncitlán

Coordinates: 20°18′N 102°16′W / 20.300°N 102.267°W / 20.300; -102.267
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Poncitlán
Municipality and city
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Poncitlán is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 672.31 km2.

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 43,817.[1]

Place Names

Poncitlán means "place of cilacayotes", "next to the shore chilares" or "place of God Ponze." It is located west of the Ocotlán municipality.

Sister cities

References

  1. ^ "Poncitlán". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on March 11, 2007. Retrieved April 16, 2009.