La Gloria is a town in the municipality of Perote in the

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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 ...

. As of the 2005 population survey, it had a population of 2,243 (1092 men and 1151 women). The town is located in Perote Valley and is surrounded by mountains. Its altitude of makes it one of the highest areas of the state of Veracruz. It is located to the southwest of

Cofre de Perote Cofre de Perote, also known by its Nahuatl names Naupa-Tecutépetl (from ''Nāuhpa-Tēuctēpetl'') and Nauhcampatépetl, both meaning something like "Place of Four Mountains" or "Mountain of the Lord of Four Places", is an inactive volcano locat ...

, approximately from the city of Perote. It is connected to Perote by a small highway; there, the small highway intersects Federal Highway 140, which goes to

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 ...

. Half of the town's population lives and works in

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, located to the west, during the week. The town is located from the Granjas Carroll de Mexico farming operation, which raised nearly 1,000,000 pigs in 2008. Many residents have protested the pig farming operation. La Gloria is suspected to be the place where the

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originated.

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Populated places in Veracruz {{Veracruz-geo-stub