Tihuatlán is a city and its surrounding

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

located in the north of the

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, about from the state capital

Xalapa Xalapa or Jalapa (, ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (), is the capital city of the Mexico, Mexican List of states of Mexico, state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In 2020 census the city reported a population of 443,063 ...

. The municipality has a surface of . The municipality has a population of 92,726 inhabitants as 2020, however, only 16 % resides in the municipal seat.Censo Tihuatlán 2020
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Name

The name comes from the Nahuatl language ''cihua-tlan'', which means "place of women".

Geography

Tihuatlán is delimited to the north by the municipalities of Temapache and

Tuxpan Tuxpan (or Túxpam, fully Túxpam de Rodríguez Cano, for Enrique Rodríguez Cano) is both a municipality and city located in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The population of the city was 89,557 and of the municipality was 154,600 inhabitants, ...

, to the east by

Papantla Papantla () is a city and municipality located in the north of the Mexican state of Veracruz, in the Sierra Papanteca range and on the Gulf of Mexico. The city was founded in the 13th century by the Totonacs and has dominated the Totonacapan reg ...

Poza Rica Poza Rica (), formally: Poza Rica de Hidalgo is a city and its surrounding municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Its name means "rich well/pond". It is often thought that the name came to be because it was a place known for its abundanc ...

and

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, to the south by

Coatzintla Coatzintla is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located in the north of state, about from the state capital Xalapa. It covers an area of . It is located at . As 2020 the municipality had a population of 55,016, with 34,039 i ...

, and to the south-west by the state of

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. It is watered by the rivers Cazones and Tontepec, which end in the

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. The weather in Tihuatlán is warm and wet all year with rains in summer and autumn.

Agriculture

It primarily produces

maize Maize (; ''Zea mays''), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native American ...

beans A bean is the seed of some plants in the legume family (Fabaceae) used as a vegetable for human consumption or animal feed. The seeds are often preserved through drying (a ''pulse''), but fresh beans are also sold. Dried beans are tradition ...

green chile Chili peppers, also spelled chile or chilli ( ), are varieties of berry-fruit plants from the genus ''Capsicum'', which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for their pungency. They are used as a spice to add pungency ( ...

and

oranges The orange, also called sweet orange to distinguish it from the bitter orange (''Citrus × aurantium''), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae. Botanically, this is the hybrid ''Citrus'' × ''sinensis'', between the pomelo (''Citrus m ...

Celebrations

In Tihuatlán, in October takes place the celebration in honor of

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, Patron of the town, and in December takes place the celebration in honor to the

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Transportation

El Tajín National Airport Poza Rica Airport (); officially ''Aeropuerto Nacional El Tajín'' (El Tajín National Airport) is an airport located in Tihuatlán, Veracruz, Mexico. It serves domestic flights for Poza Rica and Tuxpan in Veracruz, while also supporting var ...

is located in Tihuatlán.DIRECTORIO DE OFICINAS DE VENTAS
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Aeromar Transportes Aeromar, S.A. de C.V, doing business as Aeromar, was a Mexican airline that operated scheduled domestic services in Mexico and international services to the United States, and Cuba. Its main base was Mexico City International Airport ...

. 4/7. Retrieved on December 18, 2010.

References

External links

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Municipal Official webpage
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Municipal Official Information
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