El Tuito
El Tuito (spelling: "el tweet-oh") is a Mexican agricultural town situated South of the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas in the Region Costa-Sierra Occidental of the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is the administrative and municipal seat of the municipality of Cabo Corrientes.
El Tuito | |
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Location of the municipality of Cabo Corrientes within the state of Jalisco | |
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| Coordinates: 20°19′11″N 105°19′38″W | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Jalisco |
| Municipality | Cabo Corrientes |
| Founded | 16th Century |
| Founded as | El Tuito |
| Government | |
| • Municipal president of Cabo Corrientes | Miguel Ángel Silva Ramírez (PVEM ) |
| Elevation | 600 m (1,969 ft) |
| Population (2019 (locality)) | |
| • Total | 3,211 |
| • Municipality | 9,034 |
| • Demonym | Tuitense |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (Central (US Central)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (Central) |
| Postal code | 48400 |
| Area code | +52 322 |
| Website | Cabo Corrientes Municipality official government site |
El Tuito name means "small valley" or "place of beauty". The meaning of the word Tuito comes from the Nahuatl words "Teotl": god, Tiul, Tuitlán: which can mean: "place of [a] god" or "divine place" or "place of beauty".
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