Tepetlán | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Seal Size: | 70px |
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 |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipal seat |
Subdivision Name3: | Tepetlán |
Subdivision Type4: | Largest town |
Subdivision Name4: | Alto Tío Diego |
Leader Party: | PT |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Leonardo Daniel Aguilar Hernández |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 95.5 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 9,405 |
Population Density Km2: | 98.5 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Seat |
Population Blank1: | 1,533 |
Timezone: | Central |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | Central |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Coordinates: | 19.6667°N -96.8°W |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation Point: | of seat |
Elevation M: | 2,100 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal codes |
Postal Code: | 91430[3] |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 228 |
Website: | website |
Tepetlán is a municipality located in the montane central zone in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It has a surface of 83.90 km2. During the Pre-Hispanic epoch it was inhabited by the Totonac, the most ancient date in the one that one alludes as municipality in that of the 1 °. Of December, 1868 In the Cologne it named the village San Antonio Tepetlán, for decree of November 5, 1932, the head-board is called Tepetlán, remaining suppressed the first part of the name.
The municipality of Tepetlán is delimited by Acatlán, Chiconquiaco, Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios and Naolinco.[4] The territory of the municipality is watered by small tributary rivers of the river Actópan.
The weather in Tepetlán is very cold and wet all year with rains in summer and autumn.
It produces principally maize, beans, green chile, sugarcane and coffee.
In Tepetlán , in June takes place the celebration in honor to San Antonio, Patron of the town, and in December takes place the celebration in honor to Virgen de Guadalupe.
In 2020, Teocelo recorded population of 9,405 inhabitantes in 27 localities, all of them rural.[5] Tepetlán, the municipal seat, had a population of 1,533 hab. Other localities include Alto Tío Diego (1,785 hab.), Mafafas (1,465 hab.), Vicente Guerrero (1,019 hab.) and Colonia Ejidal (743 hab.).[5]