Juan C. Bonilla Municipality is a
municipality
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 ...
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
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
in south-eastern
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
.
It is named after
Juan Crisóstomo Bonilla
Juan Crisóstomo Bonilla Pérez (27 January 1835 – 30 January 1884) was a Mexican general.Valeria Caroll La vida fascinante de Juan Crisóstomo Bonilla 1966 He was born in Tetela de Ocampo, Puebla, and died in Veracruz
Veracruz (), for ...
.
References
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Municipalities of Puebla