Tlalnepantla de Baz (mex)

Tlalnepantla de Baz

Tlalnepantla de Baz ranks 3,868th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Stoneham, Massachusetts, Electoral Palatinate, and Ibbenbüren. Memorable people born in Tlalnepantla de Baz include Benito Archundia, Edson Álvarez, and Pablo Barrera. Tlalnepantla de Baz has been the birth place of many soccer players, and businesspeople. Tlalnepantla de Baz is located in Mexico.

Tlalnepantla de Baz is one of 125 municipalities of the state of Mexico, north of Mexico City. The municipal seat and largest city in the municipality is the city of Tlalnepantla. Tlalnepantla comes from the Náhuatl words tlalli (land) and nepantla (middle) to mean the middle land. The city was known in prior times as Tlalnepantla de Galeana and Tlalnepantla de Comonfort, to honor Hermenegildo Galeana and Ignacio Comonfort, respectively. The current addition of Baz comes from the last name of Gustavo Baz Prada, an important politician and soldier of Emiliano Zapata's army during the Mexican Revolution. After the Revolution, Baz Prada became Governor of the State of Mexico and President of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It is located in the northeastern part of the state of Mexico, in the Valley of Mexico north of Mexico City proper. Together with Atizapán, it comprises the dense Region XII of Mexico State. Read more on Wikipedia