El Descabezadero-Actopan-Veracruz-Mexico

Actopan Municipality is a municipality located in the montane central zone in the State of Veracruz, about 50 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 822.54 km2. It is located at . Actopan, the municipal head-board is a small city, located closely of the capital of the state; for its nature, the extraordinary richness of its lands and the determination of its population has placed to this region as one of the most important zones of production of Mango of the State.

Geography

Adjacent municipalities

* Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios Municipality (north) * Úrsulo Galván Municipality (southeast) * Puente Nacional Municipality (south) * Emiliano Zapata Municipality (southwest) * Naolinco Municipality (west)

Major highways

Mexican Federal Highway 180 Federal Highway 180 is a Mexican Federal Highway that follows Mexico's Gulf and Caribbean Coast from the Mexico-U.S. border at Brownsville, Texas, into Matamoros, Tamaulipas, to the resort city of Cancún, Quintana Roo, in the Yucatán Peninsu ...

Geographic limits

The municipality of Actopan is delimited to the east by the

Golfo de Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United S ...

, to the south by the Emiliano Zapata, to the west by the Naolinco, and to the north by

Alto Lucero Alto Lucero (formally: Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios) is a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located at , some 35 km from state capital Xalapa. It serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name. ...

. It is watered by the river Actopan, which it is born in Cofre de Perote, ends in the Gulf of Mexico, forming the Barra de Chachalacas.

Agriculture

It produces principally maize, beans chayote squash and the most important the

mango A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree ''Mangifera indica''. It is believed to have originated in the region between northwestern Myanmar, Bangladesh, and northeastern India. ''M. indica'' has been cultivated in South a ...

production.

Celebrations

In Actopan , in October takes place the celebration in honor to San Francisco de Asís, Patron of the town, and in December takes place the celebration in honor to Virgen de Guadalupe also a Mexican celebration called El dia de los muertos which means Day Of the dead.

Weather

The weather in Actopan is warm and wet all year with rains in summer and autumn.

References

External links

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Municipal Official Site
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Municipal Official Information
Municipalities of Veracruz {{Veracruz-geo-stub