Xico

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Xico

Total population

356,352

Coordinates19.28°, -98.94°

Demographic figures from INEGI. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Valle de Chalco, officially named Valle de Chalco Solidaridad, is a municipality located in the State of Mexico, Mexico, on the eastern outskirts of the metropolitan area of Mexico City. Formerly part of the municipality of Chalco, it was split off as a separate entity in 1994, during the presidency of Salinas de Gortari, under his Programa Nacional de Solidaridad. The municipality lies on the old bed of Lake Chalco, which was substantially drained in the nineteenth century. Technically, the municipal seat is Xico, after a high point of land that once formed an island, and now remains as a small hill within an otherwise monotonous, urban expanse. "Chalco" refers to the Chalca tribe, whose territory covered the area around the lake, prior to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

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Antonio Pujol

Mexican artist (1913-1995)

Cecilia Santiago

Mexican footballer

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Vicente Mendiola Quezada

Mexican architect (1900–1986)

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Agustín de Vetancurt

Mexican historian

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Juan Manuel Carbajal Hernández

Mexican politician

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Felipe Medina Santos

Mexican politician

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Armando Corona Rivera

Mexican politician

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Gerardo de la Riva Pinal

Mexican politician

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Ángel Velázquez

Mexican association football player

Aczino

mexican rapper and freestyler

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Karen Itzayana Gómez

Mexican association football player

Eligio Galicia

Mexican athlete specialized in 5K, 10k and steeplechase

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Armando Corona Arvizu

Mexican politician

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Francisco Vargas Quevedo

film director, screenwriter (born 1968)

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Agustín Caballero

Mexican music teacher

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in México

• Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias
  3.3 mi away · pop. 174,704
• San Pablo Atlazalpan
  5 mi away
• Santa Catarina Ayotzingo
  5.2 mi away
• Santiago Zula
  5.5 mi away · pop. 2,292
• Rancho Santa María Atoyac
  6.1 mi away · pop. 1,537
• Jorge Jiménez Cantú
  6.5 mi away · pop. 9,480
• Fraccionamiento El Vergel de la Sierra
  9.9 mi away
• Tlalmanalco
  10.5 mi away
• Chimalhuacán
  10.5 mi away · pop. 612,383
• Cuautlalpan
  10.7 mi away
• San Bernardino
  13.8 mi away
• San Matías Cuijingo
  14.8 mi away · pop. 6,260

Browse all places in México →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Xico

Design motifs of ancient Mexico

Jorge Enciso · 1953

Las plantas medicinales de Me?xico

Maximino Marti?nez · 1959

Mexico en 1554

Francisco Cervantes de Salazar · 1939

Me xico simpa tico

Salomay Lauderdale Harrison · 1929

Mexico

Octavio Paz · 1969

Proceedings of the UNAM Workshop on Gauge Theories

UNAM Workshop on Gauge Theories (1979 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Me xico, Mexico). · 1980

Mi Diario de Viaje M�xico

Mexico Publicacion · 2019

Iglesias de Me xico ...

Atl Dr · 1924

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Solitary Sandpiper

Tringa solitaria

Seen 2026-08-27

Golden Jumping Spider

Paraphidippus aurantius

Seen 2026-08-27

Inca Dove

Columbina inca

Seen 2026-08-27

Tropical Least Skipper

Ancyloxypha arene

Seen 2026-08-27

Broken-backed Bug

Taylorilygus apicalis

Seen 2026-08-27

Euphoria basalis

Euphoria basalis

Seen 2026-08-27

Acronyctodes mexicanaria

Acronyctodes mexicanaria

Seen 2026-08-27

Western Spotted Orbweaver

Neoscona oaxacensis

Seen 2026-08-27

Cornfield Grasshopper

Sphenarium purpurascens

Seen 2026-08-27

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers