| Alto Lucero Municipality | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Mexico Veracruz#Mexico |
| Pushpin Label Position: | above |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mexico |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Mexico |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Veracruz |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Capital Region |
| Leader Party: | PT |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Luis Vicente Aguilar Castillo |
| Area Total Km2: | 647.9 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 28,184 |
| Population Density Km2: | 43.5 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Seat |
| Population Blank1: | 5,243 |
| Timezone: | Central (US Central) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | Central |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Coordinates: | 19.6247°N -96.7342°W |
| Elevation Point: | of seat |
| Elevation M: | 591 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code (of seat) |
| Postal Code: | 91460 |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank1 Name: | Demonym |
Alto Lucero (formally: Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios) is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located at 19.6167°N -140°W, some 35 km from state capital Xalapa. The Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, Mexico's only such facility, was built near the town of Punta Limón in Alto Lucero municipality during the 1970s.
It is the birthplace and childhood hometown of famed singer Paquita la del Barrio (b. 1947).
As 2020 the municipality had a population of 28,184 inhabitants in 137 localities.[1] Alto Lucero, the municipal seat, had a population of 5,243 inhabitants, other localities includes Mesa de Guadalupe (3,439 hab.), Palma Sola (3,227 hab.), Blanca Espuma (1,580 hab.) and La Reforma (1,335 hab.).[1]