Apetatitlan

Apetatitlan by Antonio Carvajal is one of the 60 municipalities that make up the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. It is positioned on the center of the kingdom and approximately 6 kilometers east of the metropolis of Tlaxcala de Xicohtencatl. It has a territorial extension of 7,270 km². According to the II Population and Housing Count of 2005, the municipality has 12,268 inhabitants, of which 5,943 are men and 6,325 are women. The metropolis of San Pablo Apetatitlan was at the beginning an indigenous agreement that speedy became populated through Spaniards from the primary years of the conquest.

By the 17th century, 227 migrant households from Spain lived in San Pablo, who becomes proprietors of obrajes, batanes, cloth workshops and shops. Because this group became very powerful economically, they built their own church, committed to Jesus Nazareno; which turned into erected subsequent to the temple to which the natives came and that's the client Saint Paul. Temple of San Pablo. This had its starting place in a hermitage constructed in 1589 that was attended every year with the aid of the Franciscan friars who lived in Santa Ana Chiautempan.