Alto Lucero (formally: Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios) is a city in the
Mexican
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of
Veracruz
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. It is located at , some 35 km from state capital
Xalapa
Xalapa or Jalapa (, ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (), is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and the municipality of which ...
. It serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name.
The
Laguna Verde nuclear power plant
Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant (LVNPP) is located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, in Alto Lucero, Veracruz, Mexico. It is the only nuclear power, nuclear power plant in Mexico and produces about 4.5% of the country's electrical energy. It ...
, Mexico's only such facility,
was built near the town of
Punta Limón
Punta is an Afro-indigenous dance and cultural music originating in the Caribbean Island of Saint Vincent And The Grenadines by the Garifuna people before being exiled from the island. Which is also known as Yurumei. It has Africa, African and ...
in Alto Lucero municipality during the 1970s.
External links
Alto Lucero municipal webpage
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Municipal Official Information
Populated places in Veracruz
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