Pueblo Viejo 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' ...

in the

Mexican state A Mexican State (), officially the Free and Sovereign State (), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, government, state governor, a ...

Veracruz Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entit ...

. It is located in the state's

Huasteca Alta The Huasteca Alta region is one of the regions of the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is part of the broader Huasteca La Huasteca is a geographical and cultural region located partially along the Gulf of Mexico and including parts of the states o ...

region. The municipal seat is the city of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc.

Geography

The municipality covers a total area of 286.24 km² and is located on Federal Highway 123. It borders with the state of

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and the municipality of Pánuco to the north and west, with the

Gulf of 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 east, and with

Tampico Alto Tampico Alto is a town in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Located in the state's Huasteca Alta region, it serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal c ...

to the south.

Demographics

In the 2005 INEGI Census, the municipality reported a total population of 52,593 (up from 48,054 in 1995), of whom 8,950 lived in the municipal seat. Of the municipality's inhabitants, 553 (1.2%) spoke an

indigenous language An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by its indigenous peoples. Indigenous languages are not necessarily national languages but they can be; for example, Aymara is both an indigen ...

, primarily

Nahuatl Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller popul ...

; 0.32% of the total population spoke no Spanish.

Settlements

The municipal seat of Pueblo Viejo is not its largest centre of population. Of the municipality's 73 settlements, the largest are: *

Benito Juárez Benito Pablo Juárez García (; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican politician, military commander, and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. A Zapotec peoples, Zapotec, he w ...

(2005 population: 14,015) * Anáhuac (13,657) * Cd. Cuauhtémoc (municipal seat; 8,950) *

Hidalgo Hidalgo may refer to: People * Hidalgo (nobility), members of the Spanish nobility * Hidalgo (surname) Places Mexico :''Most, if not all, named for Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753–1811)'' * Hidalgo (state), in central Mexico * Hidalgo, Coah ...

(6,159) *

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(5,068)

References

External links

Pueblo Viejo
on Veracruz State Govt. web page {{coord, 21, 17, N, 98, 22, W, region:MX_type:city, display=title Municipalities of Veracruz