Ecatepec de Morelos

Ecatepec
Ceety
San Cristóbal Ecatepec de Morelos Saunt Cristóbal Ecatepec o Morelos
Seal
Ecatepec
Coordinates: 19°36′35″N 99°03′36″W / 19.60972°N 99.06000°W / 19.60972; -99.06000
Kintra	Mexico
State	State o Mexico
Municipal Status	1861
Govrenment
• Municipal Preses	Indalecio Ruiz Velazquez
Population  (2010 Census (provisional))
• Municipality	1,658,806
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal code (of seat)	55000
Website	(in Spaingie)http://www.ecatepec.gob.mx

Ecatepec de Morelos, offeecially San Cristóbal Ecatepec de Morelos, is a ceety an municipality in the State o Mexico an the seat o Ecatepec de Morelos Municipality; housomeivver, baith the ceety an the municipality are aften kent simply as "Ecatepec". The name "Ecatepec" is derivit frae Nahuatl, an means "windy hill" or "hill devotit tae Ehecatl". It wis an alternative name or invocation tae Quetzalcoatl an aw.^[1] "Morelos" is the surname o José María Morelos, a hero o the Mexican War o Unthirldom.

The ceety is practically co-extensive wi the municipality wi the ceety's 2005 population o 1,687,549 bein 99.9% o the tot municipal population o 1,688,258.^[2] The proveesional population at the 2010 Census wis 1,658,806. The ceety forms the maist populous suburb o Mexico Ceety (Ciudad de México).

"San Cristóbal" (Saunt Christopher) is the ceety's patron saunt, whose feast day is celebratit on 25 Julie o each year.^[1]

Pynts o interest include the newest Catholic Cathedral in Mexico, Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, several colonial era kirks an the colonel edifice Casa de los virreyes.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{a b c} "Historia de Ecatepec". Archived frae the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 8 Mairch 2008.
2. ↑ "http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/default.asp?s=est&c=10395". Retrieved 8 Mairch 2008. freemit airtin in |title= (help)