Cosamaloapan is a city located in the plains of the Sotavento zone in the central zone of the State of

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 ...

, about 240 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 has a surface of 323.26 km2. It is located at . The poet

Manuel Carpio Manuel Elogio Carpio Hernández (March 1, 1791 – February 11, 1860) was a Mexican poet, theologian, physician, and politician. Much of his poetry was religious or historical, with an inspiration for his poetry deriving from the Bible. He was a ...

was born in Cosamaloapan. Cosamaloapan serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Cosamaloapan de Carpio, which was so renamed in honour of its most famous son in 1918.

Geographic Limits

The municipality of Cosamaloapan is delimited to the north by Tierra Blanca and

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 ...

to the south by

Chacaltianguis Chacaltianguis is a municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. It is located in the south of the state of Veracruz. It has a surface of 557.69 km2. It is located at . The municipality of Chacaltianguis is delimited to the north by Cosamaloapan, to the east ...

and

Tuxtilla Tuxtilla is a municipality located in the south zone in the State of Veracruz, about 175 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 168.62 km2. It is located at . The name comes from the language Náhuatl, Tuz-Tlan. It is bounded by Cosama ...

to the east by Carlos A. Carrillo and to the west by

Tres Valles Tres Valles (Three Valleys) is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz, created as a free municipality by decree on November 25, 1988. It is located in the lower reaches of the Papaloapan, and borders the state of Oaxaca and th ...

. It is watered by small creeks of the river Papaloapan.

Agriculture

It produces principally

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, beans,

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with ...

, watermelon and

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Celebrations

In Cosamaloapan, in May takes place the celebration in honor of the Virgen de la Concepción, Patron of the town, and in December takes place the celebration in honor of the Virgen de Guadalupe.

Weather

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

References

External links

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Municipal Official webpage
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Municipal Official Information
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