Actopan is a

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 at in the montane central zone in the

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, about 50 km from the state capital of

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. Actopan, the municipal seat, is a small city located near the capital of the state. The region is one of the most important producers of mangoes in the state.

Geography

El Descabezadero-Actopan-Veracruz-Mexico

Adjacent municipalities

* Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios Municipality (north) * Úrsulo Galván Municipality (southeast) * Puente Nacional Municipality (south) * Emiliano Zapata Municipality (southwest) * Naolinco Municipality (west)

Major highways

Mexican Federal Highway 180 Federal Highway 180 is a Mexican Federal Highway that follows Mexico's Gulf and Caribbean Coast from the Mexico–United States border at Brownsville, Texas, into Matamoros, Tamaulipas, to the resort city of Cancún, Quintana Roo, in the Yucat ...

Geographic limits

The municipality of Actopan is delimited to the east by the

Golfo de Mexico The Gulf of Mexico () is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southw ...

, to the south by the

Emiliano Zapata Emiliano Zapata Salazar (; 8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the insp ...

, to the west by the

Naolinco Naolinco is a small city in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is named after Guadalupe Victoria, also known as Naolinco de Victoria. It is on Federal Highways 190 and 180. It has borders with Xalapa, Acatlán, Tepetlán Tepetlán is a mun ...

, and to the north by

Alto Lucero Alto Lucero (formally: Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios) is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located at , some 35 km from state capital Xalapa. The Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, Mexico's only such facilit ...

. It is watered by the river Actopan, which it is born in Cofre de Perote, ends in the

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, forming the Barra de Chachalacas.

Weather

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

Demographics

As 2020, Actopan had a population of 41,762 inhabitants in 194 localities with 10% of the population residing in the municipal seat (4,607 hab.).2020 Actopan CENSUS
/ref> Other localities includes Mozomboa (3,329 hab.), Coyolillo (2,394 hab.), Tinajitas (2,038 hab.) and Santa Rosa (1,975 hab.).

Agriculture

It produces principally

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 ...

chayote squash and the most important the

mango A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree '' Mangifera indica''. It originated from the region between northwestern Myanmar, Bangladesh, and northeastern India. ''M. indica'' has been cultivated in South and Southeast As ...

production.

Celebrations

In Actopan , in October takes place the celebration in honor to San Francisco de Asís, Patron of the town, and in December takes place the celebration in honor to Virgen de Guadalupe also a Mexican celebration called El dia de los muertos which means Day Of the dead.

References

External links

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Municipal Official Site
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Municipal Official Information
Municipalities of Veracruz {{Veracruz-geo-stub