Cotaxtla is a city in 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 ...
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 ...
.
It is located 45 km from the
city of Veracruz on
Federal Highway 180
The following highways are numbered 180:
Australia
* Pyrenees Highway
Canada
* New Brunswick Route 180
* Prince Edward Island Route 180
* Winnipeg Route 180
Costa Rica
* National Route 180
Ireland
* R180 road (Ireland)
Japan
* Japan Na ...
. Major products in Cotaxtla are
corn
Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maĆz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...
,
sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double ...
, and
fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.
Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...
s.
In September 2010, the city suffered widespread damage from
Hurricane Karl which inundated the area with floods up to deep.
External links
*
Municipal Official Site*
Municipal Official Information
Populated places in Veracruz
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