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'''Tepeaca''' is a [[Municipalities of Puebla|municipality]] in the [[List of states of Mexico|Mexican state]] of [[Puebla]] in southeastern [[Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|title=-|url=http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/puebla/|work=Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México|publisher=[[Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal]]|access-date=January 4, 2010}}</ref><!-- The municipality covers an area of  km<sup>2</sup>. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of . ---> Tepeaca is located 35&nbsp;km (21.75&nbsp;mi) from [[Puebla (city)|the city of Puebla]] and is the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Its name comes from a Spanish variant of "Tepeyacac" composed of the [[Nahuatl]] words ''tepetl'' ("hill") and ''yacatl'' ("nose tip, which is in the foreground") (can be translated in various ways: "in the top of the hill" or "the principle of the hills"). It has been called '''Tepeaca de Negrete''' as it was the birthplace and hometown of General [[Miguel Negrete Novoa]]. Along with [[Tecali Herrera]], he extracted the [[onyx]] and [[marble]]. The town was originally founded by [[Hernán Cortés]] as [[Segura de la Frontera]].
In the parish of San Francisco de Asís is a [[Niño Dios of Mexico|Child Jesus]] image called the Santo Niño Doctor de los Enfemos. The image is old but devotion to it is relatively recent. The image used to belong to a nun of the [[Order of Josephine]] at Concepción Béistegui Hospital in [[Mexico City]]. When the nun was transferred to Tepeaca, she brought the image with her and had it with her as she treated the sick. This image has had its own feast day at this church since 1961 on the 30 of April.<ref name="arraigo">{{cite news |title= Tiene arraigo en México la veneración al Niño Dios |url= http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/404275.html |agency= Notimex  |newspaper= El Universal |location=Mexico City |date=2 February 2007 |access-date=January 20, 2010 |language=es |trans-title=Veneration of the Niño Dios has deep roots in Mexico }}</ref>
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