Teapa 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
Tabasco
Tabasco (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco), is one of the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa.
It is located in ...
in south-eastern
Mexico
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. Its name comes from the
Nahuatl words "Tetl'' and ''apan", which mean "river over stones" or "stone's river". It refers to one of the rivers that crosses the town.
The municipal seat is Teapa city, and possess a division constituted by 18 ejidos, 15 ranches, 1 populated, 6 neighborhoods and 1 villa.
Its territorial extension is , which corresponds to 2.76% of the state total; this places the municipality 16th in territorial extension. There is a border to the north with the municipalities of Centro and Jalapa; and in the south, east and west with the state of Chiapas. According to the results presented for the 2nd population and home count from 2005, the municipality has a population of 49,262 people.
Climate
The weather is warm and humid with rain all year round; it has an annual average temperature of . The monthly highest average is in June from and the lowest average is in December.
Notable people
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Luis Arenal Bastar, artist
References
Municipalities of Tabasco
Populated places in Tabasco
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