Mixtla de Altamirano 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 the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...

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 ...

. It is in the central zone of the state, about from the 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 an area of . The municipality of Mixtla de Altamirano is delimited to the north by Texhuacán, to the east by

Zongolica Zongolica is a municipality located in the south zone in the State of Veracruz, about 100 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 63.34 km2. It is located at . The name comes from Nahuatl ''Tzontli-coliuhqui'' 'crafty hair'. T ...

, to the south by

Tehuipango Tehuipango is a municipality located in the montane central zone in the Mexican state of Veracruz, about 110 km from the state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 111.04 km2. It is located at . Santiago Tehuipango, it was a people belonging to ...

and to the west by Astacinga. It 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. Th ...

and

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. In Mixtla de Altamirano, a celebration to honor San Andrés Apostol, patron of the town, takes place in December. The weather in Mixtla de Altamirano is very cold all year with rains in summer and autumn.

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External links

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Municipal Official webpage
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Municipal Official Information
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