Alvarado is one of the 212

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

of the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...

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 ...

. The municipality is part of the state's

Papaloapan Region The Cuenca del Papaloapan Region is in the north of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico where the foothills of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca meet the coastal plain of Veracruz. The principal city is San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, the second largest in Oaxaca st ...

and its municipal seat is established at the homonymous city of Alvarado.

History

In 1816, the citizens of the village of San Cristóbal de Alvarado sought the designation of ''Town'' from

Ferdinand VII , house = Bourbon-Anjou , father = Charles IV of Spain , mother = Maria Luisa of Parma , birth_date = 14 October 1784 , birth_place = El Escorial, Spain , death_date = , death_place = Madrid, Spain , burial_plac ...

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of Spain. The King granted the village the title of Town on 8 September 1816 by

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, which had a cost of 92,800 maravedís. Almost two years later, on 5 September 1818 the same Ferdinand VII authorized the first

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''Ayuntamiento'' or

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. On 3 October 1818, the first City Council was established with Tomás Hondal serving as first

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. Once the Independence War was over, the State enacted its own

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in which the state territory was divided in 4 departments and 12

cantons A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, t ...

. The municipality of Alvarado was assigned to the Canton of Veracruz in the Department of Veracruz.

Geography

The municipality has an extension of and an elevation of . It is located in the state's

Papaloapan region The Cuenca del Papaloapan Region is in the north of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico where the foothills of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca meet the coastal plain of Veracruz. The principal city is San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, the second largest in Oaxaca st ...

and is bordered by the municipalities of Boca del Río,

Tlalixcoyan Tlalixcoyan (pronounced Tlah-leeks-KOH-yan) is a municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. Tlalixcoyan is bordered by: Alvarado, Medellín, and Cotaxtla and is on Mexican Federal Highways 180 and 190. Lorenzo Barcelata, composer, was born in Tlalixco ...

Medellín Medellín ( or ), officially the Municipality of Medellín ( es, Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central re ...

Ignacio de la Llave Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos (26 August 1818 – 23 June 1863)https://www.gob.mx/inafed/articulos/conmemoramos-el-natalicio-de-general-del-ejercito-y-como-gobernador-del-estado-de-veracruz-ignacio-de-la-llave was a general and the gover ...

Ixmatlahuacan Ixmatlahuacan is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is in south zone of Veracruz, about 175 km from the state capital Xalapa. It has an area of 335.59 km2. It is located at . Ixmatlahuacan is delimited to the northeast by Acula, to ...

, Acula,

Tlacotalpan Tlacotalpan is a city in Tlacotalpan Municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998 primarily for its architecture and colonial-era layout. The town was established in 1550 on what was originally an ...

and Lerdo de Tejada.

Hydrography

The municipality is crossed by the

Papaloapan The Papaloapan River () is one of the main rivers of the Political divisions of Mexico, Mexican state of Veracruz (state), Veracruz. Its name comes from the Nahuatl ''papaloapan'' meaning "river of the Butterfly, butterflies". In 1517, Juan de Gri ...

and

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rivers, both of which drain into the Alvarado Lagoon complex. The Alvarado Lagoon complex is formed, from north to south, by the Camaronera, Buen País, Alvarado and Tlalixcoyan lagoons.

Orography

Alvarado is located in the state's central

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al zone, within the Sotavento plains.

Dune A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, f ...

s are common in rural and urban areas; an example of this is the neighborhood of (), built on the Rosary dunes which are inside the city of Alvarado.

Climate

In this region there is hot/sub-

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—the wetter of the sub-humids—

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with abundant

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s in summer. The maximum average

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is and as minimum average temperature, varying from to every year. The dry season is from January to May and the period of rains starts in June. The ''nortes'' season starts in November and intensifies in January.

Infrastructure

Roads

The municipality is connected mainly through two

Mexican Federal Highway Federal Highways ( es, Carretera Federal), are a series of highways that connect with roads from foreign countries; link two or more states of the Federation; and are wholly or mostly built by the Federation with federal funds or through federal ...

s and a few state and municipal roads. * Highway 180 covers must of the municipality from north to south, connecting Alvarado with the municipalities of Medellín and Boca del Río to the north, and Lerdo de Tejada to the south. Prior to the building of the Alvarado toll bridge in the 1960s, ferries were used at the Papaloapan river's mouth to cross the river. * Highway 175 starts at Buenavista, at the south-end of the municipality, connecting with Tlacotalpan to the west. Highway 175 it passes over an upstream section of the Papaloapan River via the Tlacotalpan toll bridge. Regarding state and municipal roads, the small network connects a few locations in the north and northwest areas of the municipality.

Administrative division

The municipality counts with 265 settlements, from which 2 are urban.

Government

Municipal

Local government, or ( en,

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), is led by the ( en,

, lit=municipal president) with support of the

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, and the ( en, councillors, lit=regents). The mayor is elected by popular election for a 4-year term with non-limited, non-consecutive re-elections.

State and Federal

The municipality is part of the XXIII State Electoral district and XIX Federal Electoral District.

Notes

References

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