El Apartadero

El Apartadero occupies the low sierra of the Mezquital Valley, at 2,276 metres, where the Neovolcanic Axis meets the plains and ranges of Querétaro and Hidalgo. The climate is semi-dry and temperate, about 15 °C on average and, according to Pueblos América's weather record, one 6.5 cm snowfall in March 1987. Its waters run to the Tecozautla river sub-basin, within the Moctezuma basin.

In 2020 INEGI counted 521 residents: 252 men and 269 women. It belongs to Huichapan municipality, which occupies western Hidalgo, borders Querétaro and has a very low indigenous population, 1.4%. The municipal landscape is semi-desert, with prickly-pear stands, scrub and garambullo, and oak and fir woods on the higher ground; pepper trees are also everywhere. Its Nahuatl name is read as "river of willows".

The nearest communities are small: Chimpa, with 9 residents, 1.5 km east; Taxbathá, with 101, 2.2 km northwest; and El Tendido, with 164, about 3 km northeast. Cerro Pardo (2,327 m) is about 2 km to the southeast and Cerro Ixcojo (2,351 m) about 5 km south. For food or a bed you go to Tecozautla, where Pueblos América highlights the Pañhú archaeological site.