Tuxtepec District is located in the north of the

Papaloapan Region The Cuenca del Papaloapan Region is in the north of the southeastern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where the foothills of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca meet the coastal plain of Veracruz. The principal city is San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, the second large ...

of the State of

Oaxaca Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

. It is the northernmost district in Oaxaca.

Municipalities

The district includes the following municipalities: *

Acatlán de Pérez Figueroa Acatlán (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 ...

* Ayotzintepec * Cosolapa * Loma Bonita * San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz * San Felipe Usila * San José Chiltepec *

San José Independencia San José Independencia is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 58.75 km2. It is part of the Tuxtepec District of the Papaloapan Region The Cuenca del Papaloapan Region is in the nort ...

San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec (, "on the hill of rabbits"), or simply referred to as Tuxtepec, is the head of the municipality by the same name and is the second most populous city of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is part of the Tuxtepec District of ...

San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional is a town and Municipalities of Oaxaca, municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 394.23 km² within the Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, Sierra Juárez mountains. It is part of the ...

San Lucas Ojitlán San Lucas Ojitlán is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 595.81 km². It is part of the Tuxtepec District of the Papaloapan Region The Cuenca del Papaloapan Region is in the north ...

* San Miguel Soyaltepec *

San Pedro Ixcatlán San Pedro Ixcatlán is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in southwestern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 101.9 km2. It's part of the Tuxtepec District of the Papaloapan Region The Cuenca del Papaloapan Region is in the north of the s ...

* Santa María Jacatepec File:Catedral Tuxtepec.JPG, Tuxtepec Cathedral File:Tux Papaloapan river.JPG, Tuxtepec from the

Papaloapan river The Papaloapan River () is one of the main rivers of the Political divisions of Mexico, Mexican state of Veracruz (state), Veracruz. Its name comes from the Nahuatl ''papaloapan'' meaning "river of the Butterfly, butterflies". In 1518 Juan de Grij ...

File:Compañia del Tropico2.JPG, Trópico brewery File:Arrocera Tuxtepec.JPG, Old rice fields in El Desengaño

References

Districts of Oaxaca Papaloapan Region {{Oaxaca-geo-stub