The Municipality of Tepic is one of the
20 municipalities dividing the Mexican state of
Nayarit
Nayarit (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit), is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 20 municipalities and its ...
; its head city (the seat of the municipal government), the city of
Tepic
Tepic () is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality.
Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of above sea level, on the banks of the Río Mo ...
, is also the capital of the state.
Geography
The municipality of Tepic is located in the center-south zone of the state of Nayarit, just at the foot of the
Sierra Madre Oriental
The Sierra Madre Oriental () is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico. The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that f ...
mountain range and in its transition towards the
Pacific Coastal Plain The Pacific Coastal Plain is located in Mexico. This region lies along the Pacific coastline from Alaska to Mexico. The plains range is from the Mexican border with the United States to Cape Corrientes, about range of about half the western coast o ...
. It has a territorial extension of 766 sq mi (1983.3 km
2) that represent 7.25% of the total extension of Nayarit, ranking it as the sixth most extensive municipality in the state. Its geographic coordinates are 21° 23'N - 21° 52'N and 104° 35'W - 105° 09'W and its altitude ranges from a maximum of 7,546 feet (2,300 m) to a minimum of 328 feet (100 m) above sea level.
Demography
According to the results of the 2020 General Census of Population and Housing conducted by the
National Institute of Statistics and Geography
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI by its name in es, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Stat ...
(INEGI), the municipality of Tepic has a total population of 425,924 people, of which 49.6% (211,258) are men and 50.4% (214,666) are women.
Localities
In the municipality of Tepic there are 138 localities. List of localities with population above 1,000 include:
Politics
The government of the municipality corresponds to the City Council which is made up of the Municipal President, a Syndic and 16 Councillors; all are elected by free, direct and secret popular vote for a period of three years, not re-eligible for the immediate period but discontinuously, and they enter to exercise their positions on September 17 of the year of their election.
Legislative representation
For the election of local deputies to the Congress of Nayarit and of federal deputies to the
House of federal Deputies, the municipality of Tepic is included in the following electoral districts:
* I Electoral District Venue of Nayarit with cabecera in
Tepic
Tepic () is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality.
Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of above sea level, on the banks of the Río Mo ...
.
* II Electoral District Venue of Nayarit with cabecera in
Tepic
Tepic () is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality.
Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of above sea level, on the banks of the Río Mo ...
.
* III Electoral District Venue of Nayarit with cabecera in
Tepic
Tepic () is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality.
Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of above sea level, on the banks of the Río Mo ...
.
*
II Electoral District Federal of Nayarit with cabecera in the city of
Tepic
Tepic () is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality.
Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of above sea level, on the banks of the Río Mo ...
.
Municipal presidents
References
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Municipalities of Nayarit