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Hidalgo (state)
Hidalgo is a state of central Mexico, north of Mexico City, with its capital at Pachuca. It contains the archaeological site of Tula, capital of the Toltecs in the Early Postclassic period, and the silver mines of Pachuca and Real del Monte, worked since the colonial period. The state was created in 1869 and is named after Miguel Hidalgo, leader of the independence rising of 1810.
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