Cholula, Puebla

Cholula

San Pedro Cholula/San Andrés Cholula
Cholula San Pedro Cholula/San Andrés Cholula
City and District
	San Pedro Cholula
	View of Pyramid and church
	Cholula Cholula
	Coordinates: 19°03′48″N 98°18′23″W / 19.06333°N 98.30639°W
Country	Mexico
State	Puebla
Founded	roughly 500 BCE
Municipal Status	1860s
Government
• Municipal Presidents	José Juan Espinosa (San Pedro) and Leoncio Paisano (San Andrés)
Area
• Total	111.03 km2 (42.87 sq mi)
Elevation (of seat)	2,150 m (7,050 ft)
Population (2005) San Pedro and San Andrés Municipalities
• Total	193,554
• City	118,170
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (US Central))
Postal code (of seat)	72810
Area code	222
Demonym	Choluteco
Website	(in Spanish) San Andrés and SanPedro

Cholula (Spanish: [tʃoˈlula] ^ⓘ, officially Cholula de Rivadavia; Mezquital Otomi: Mä'ragi),^[1] is a city and district located in the metropolitan area of Puebla, Mexico.^[2] Cholula is best known for its Great Pyramid, with the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios sanctuary on top, as well as its numerous churches.

The city and district of Cholula are divided into two: San Pedro Cholula and San Andrés Cholula. Surrounding the city proper is a number of more rural communities which belong to the municipalities of San Andrés and San Pedro. The city itself is divided into eighteen neighborhoods or barrios, each with a patron saint.

This division has pre-Hispanic origins as does the division into two municipalities. The city is unified by a complicated system of shared religious responsibilities, called cargas, which function mostly to support a very busy calendar of saints' days and other festivals which occur in one part or another almost all year round. The most important of these festivals is that dedicated to the Virgin of the Remedies, the patron of the city in its entirety, which occurs at the beginning of September. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth. Pre-Columbian Cholula grew from a small village to a regional center during the 7th century. It is the oldest still-inhabited city in the Americas.

^ "Archivo histórico de localidades - Cholula de Rivadavia". National Institute of Statistics and Geography. Archived from the original on 2014-10-30.
^ "Mapa Zona metropolitana de Puebla-Tlaxcala" (PDF). National Institute of Statistics and Geography.

[Historico-1] "Archivo histórico de localidades - Cholula de Rivadavia". National Institute of Statistics and Geography. Archived from the original on 2014-10-30.

[2] "Mapa Zona metropolitana de Puebla-Tlaxcala" (PDF). National Institute of Statistics and Geography.

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