Tierra Blanca is a city and its surrounding
municipality
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of the same name located in the south-central part of the
Mexican
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state
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of
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 ...
. At the 2005 census the city had a population of 44,171 inhabitants, and 47,824 in 2015. The city serves as the municipal seat of the municipality, which has an area of 1,363.76 km
2 (526.55 sq mi) and a population of 86,075 inhabitants (2005) and 106,277 (2015). Its largest other community is the town of
Joachín.
The municipality has been torn by violence in the 2010s and 2020s. On May 30,
2020
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, Francisco Navarette Serna, founder of ′′El Sol de Terra Blance,′′ was one of seven people killed at a party held during the height of the
COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
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. In 2016, Navarette Serna was accused of being the local drug lord responsible for the murder of five men between 16 and 27 years old from
Acayucan
Acayucan is a city in the Mexican state of 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, compr ...
in February
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
. Their bodies were crushed to avoid identification.
References
Encuesta Intercensal 2015INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
VeracruzEnciclopedia de los Municipios de México
External links
Municipio de Tierra BlancaOfficial website
Municipalities of Veracruz
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