La Perla is a Municipality in

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 ...

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. It is located in central zone of the State of

, about 75 km from state capital

Xalapa Xalapa or Jalapa (, ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (), is the capital city of the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and t ...

. It has a surface of 199.880 km2. It is located at . The municipality of La Perla is bordered to the north by

Coscomatepec Coscomatepec is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located in the mountainous central zone of the state, about 50 km from Xalapa, the state capital. It has an area of . It is located at . Geography The municipality of Co ...

and Calcahualco to the east by

Chocamán Chocamán is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located about 146 km south of the Veracruz state capital Xalapa. It has an area of 41.13 km2. It is located at . The municipality of Chocamán is delimited to the north and n ...

and

Atzacan Atzacan is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located about 198 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 80.61 km2. It is located at . The municipality of Atzacan is delimited to the north by Chocaman, to the ea ...

, to the south by

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, Ixhuatlancillo,

Maltrata Maltrata is a Municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. It is located in central zone of the State of Veracruz, about 209 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 132.43 km2. It is located at . The municipality of Maltrata is delimited ...

and to the west by

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State. Major crops are

maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz 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. ...

beans A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes t ...

potatoes The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United ...

and

faba bean ''Vicia faba'', commonly known as the broad bean, fava bean, or faba bean, is a species of vetch, a flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated as a crop for human consumption, and also as a cover crop. Variet ...

. The weather in La Perla is cold all year with rain in summer and autumn. The celebration in honor of

Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe ( es, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe ( es, Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus associated with a series of five Marian apparitions, which are believed t ...

, patron of the town, is in December. As of March 3, 2021, sixteen confirmed cases and two deaths related to the

COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico The COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have reached Mexico in February 2020. Ho ...

had been reported. Melquiades Vázquez Lucas (″El Pantera″), candidate for mayor (), was assassinated on March 4, 2021.

References

External links

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Municipal Official webpage
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Municipal Official Information
{{Veracruz Municipalities of Veracruz