The current municipality of Ignacio de la Llave, previously known as San Cristobal de la Llave, is placed in the popularly known region of La Mixtequilla, which is located in the western limit of the

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river, going through the

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and

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rivers. The climate of the region varie between hot-humid and tropical-humid, with frequent summer rains between July and September. The average temperature is from 64 and 72

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, with a maximum registered in the high 70s

(24-26°C) and the lowest in the high 40

(7-9°C). Ignacio de la Llave is neighbor and has deep political, social and trading relationships with: Alvarado, Acula,

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 ...

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 ...

and Tierra Blanca. The municipality celebrates its carnival in the month of March were music, dances and joy are spread by its inhabitants. Mayor Juan José Flores Lira died of a heart attack on April 24, 2017.

Toponymy

The towns name comes from General

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 ...

, who was

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for 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 ...

from 1861 to 1862. It shares its name with the state of

, just in a different order.

Physical medium

Location

It's located in the central zone of the state of Veracruz, in the previously known zone named ''Las llanuras del sotavento,'' in the economic-administrative region called

Borders

It borders on the north with the municipalities of Tlalixcoyan and Alvarado, to the south with Ixmatlahuacan and Tierra Blanca, to the west with Tierra Blanca and Tlalixcoyan and to the east with Alvarado and Ixmatlahuacan.

References

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