Acayucan Municipality is one of the 212

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of the

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Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...

. It is located in the state's southeast, in the

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region. The municipal seat is the city of Acayucan, Veracruz. It covers a total of 724.65 km² (279.79 sq mi). At the 2005 INEGI Census, the municipality reported a population of 79,459, of whom 49,945 lived in the municipal seat. Of the municipality's population, 3,655 (5.22%) spoke an

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, primarily

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, followed in numbers by Zapotec. In addition to the seat, the municipality's largest other communities are Corral Nuevo and

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History

Conquistadores

Gonzalo de Sandoval Gonzalo de Sandoval (1497, Medellín, Spain – late in 1528, Palos de la Frontera, Spain) was a Spanish conquistador in New Spain (Mexico)Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, and briefly co-governor of the colo ...

and Hernan Cortés passed through Acayucan on the route from Tuxtepec to Tenochititlan. In 1580 it was part of the ′′Villa de Espíritu Santo′′ ( Coatzacoalcos); when this was wiped out by pirates, Ayayucan became the seat of the '' Alcaldía mayor.'' The local indigenous population rose up in rebellion in 1787. After the

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in 1821, the Acayucan municipality was established in 1824. San Martin Acayucan became a ''villa'' in 1824 and a town on June 13, 1848. The community was destroyed by a hurricane in 1888. Hilario C. Salas took the town of Acayucan in his fight against the Porfirian dictatorship in 1906. San Martin Acayucan became a city on September 26, 1910. Electrification came to the city in 1946. The Catholic church was destroyed in the July 1957 earthquake. In 2005–07, the

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(mayor) of Acayucan was Fabiola Vázquez Saút of the PAN, a daughter of the slain

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(local

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)

Cirilo Vázquez Cirilo Vázquez Lagunes (died November 19, 2006), nicknamed "Cacique of the South," ("cacique del sur" in Spanish) was a Mexican cattle rancher and businessman who had political power in areas in the state of Veracruz.Althaus, Dudley.WHO REALLY RU ...

. In May

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

, Francisco Navarette Serna, presumed drug chieftain responsible for the February 2016 in Mexico, 2016 murders of five young people from Acayucan between 16 and 27 years old, was killed at a party at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.

Climate

References

Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI)
Veracruz
Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

External links

Municipio de Acayucan
Municipal government website *
Municipal Official Information
{{Veracruz Municipalities of Veracruz