Texistepec is a municipality located in the south-east zone in the State of

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 ...

, about 285 km from state capital

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 ...

. It has a surface of 615.26 km2. It is located at . Texistepec in 1580 concerned to Coatzacoalcos's province. In 1831 San Miguel Texistepec was forming a municipality and was possessing 2 square leagues of lands with legal titles, southern people who suffered the batterings of the currents that our Mexican Republic had. The name "Texistepec" comes from the Nahuatl roots ''te-ksis''- "shell (egg)" + -''tepe''- "mountain" + -''k'': "in".Campbell, Lyle. ''American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of Native America''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. P. 403, note 22.

Geographic Limits

The municipality of Texistepec is delimited to the north by Oluta and

Soconusco Soconusco is a region in the southwest corner of the state of Chiapas in Mexico along its border with Guatemala. It is a narrow strip of land wedged between the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It is the southernmost par ...

, to the east by

Hidalgotitlán Hidalgotitlán is a town in the Mexican state of Veracruz, with a population of near 18,000 in 2000. Its name derives from two words: one Spanish and the other indigenous. The first part is the family name (after the father of the modern Mexican ...

, to the south by

Jesús Carranza Jesús Carranza Neira was a Mexican colonel from Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila. He helped Benito Juárez and also lent him money. Jesús Carranza was married to María de Jesús Garza and had 15 children; among them was Venustiano Carranza, who la ...

and to the west by Sayula de Alemán. To the municipality it is watered by small rivers that are tributaries of the Chiquito, affluent river of the river Coatzacoalcos.

Agriculture

Texistepec produces principally

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. The ...

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 thr ...

oranges An orange is a fruit of various citrus species in the family Rutaceae (see list of plants known as orange); it primarily refers to ''Citrus'' × ''sinensis'', which is also called sweet orange, to distinguish it from the related ''Citrus × ...

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticat ...

and sorghum.

Celebrations

In Texistepec, the celebration in honor of San Miguel Arcangel, Patron of the town, takes place in May and the celebration in honor to

Virgen de 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 ...

takes place in December.

Weather

The

weather Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloud cover, cloudy. On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmos ...

in Texistepec is very warm and dry all year with rains in summer and autumn.

References

External links

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