Coamitla

Coamitla's name breaks down in Nahuatl into coatl, "snake", and mitl, "arrow": roughly "snake arrow". The community stands at 765 metres in the Carso Huasteco sierra, and its water passes to the Los Hules river sub-basin. Wikipedia places it about 13.4 km east of Calnali, the municipal seat; as the crow flies the distance is shorter, around 9 km.

In 2020 it recorded 644 residents, 327 women and 317 men, in 172 homes, against 704 in 2010. INEGI rates the locality's marginalisation as high and its social lag as medium; two in three homes have a mobile phone and very few have internet. It rains all year in a warm, humid climate averaging near 20 °C.

In Calnali municipality the economy includes forestry and cane milling, and its flora features oak, ocote pine, red cedar, rubber tree and chicozapote, with orange and lime trees among the fruit. Nearly three in ten people in the municipality speak an indigenous language. Near Coamitla, Cerro El Colorado (861 m) is about 2 km west and Cerro Cuetlaxco (897 m) about 2.4 km east.