| Perote | |
| Settlement Type: | City and municipality |
| Total 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: | PRI |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Delfino Ortega Martínez |
| Area Total Km2: | 614.7 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 77,432 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Seat |
| Population Blank1: | 42,451 |
| Timezone: | Central (US Central) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | Central |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Coordinates: | 19.5619°N -97.2419°W |
| Elevation Point: | of seat |
| Elevation M: | 2,425 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code (of seat) |
| Postal Code: | 30128 |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank Info: | ET |
| Blank1 Name: | Demonym |
Perote is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city serves as the seat of government for the surrounding municipality of the same name, with a population 42,451 inhabitants as 2020, while the municipality population is of 77,432.[1] Perote borders the municipalitys of Las Vigas de Ramírez, Acajete, Xico and Tlalnelhuayocan, and the state of Puebla. It is on Federal Highway 140.
Its climate is cold and dry with an annual average temperature of 12 degrees Celsius.
Perote's fortress of San Carlos once served as a prison. Guadalupe Victoria died there.
Also in Perote is the Cofre de Perote shield-shaped volcano (the Nahuatl name of which was "Naucampatepetl," which means "four times lord").
This town is the home of a sizable Spanish community which immigrated here in the 1930s. Because of this, it is known for Spanish-style cured meats and sausage such as jamón serrano (serrano ham), botifarra (Catalán sausage), and Spanish chorizo sausage.[2]