Perote, Veracruz

Perote
Perote
City and municipality
	Top: Perote Municipal Hall; Middle: San Antonio Limón Church, San Carlos Fortress; Bottom: Cofre de Perote, Calvario Church
	Coat of arms
	Perote Location in Mexico Perote Perote (Mexico)
	Coordinates: 19°33′43″N 97°14′31″W / 19.56194°N 97.24194°W
Country	Mexico
State	Veracruz
Region	Capital Region
Government
• Mayor	Delfino Ortega Martínez (PRI)
Area
• Municipality	614.7 km2 (237.3 sq mi)
Elevation (of seat)	2,425 m (7,956 ft)
Population (2020)
• Municipality	77,432
• Seat	42,451
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (US Central))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central)
Postal code (of seat)	30128
Climate	ET
Website	(in Spanish)

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1995	51,688	—
2000	54,365	+5.2%
2005	61,272	+12.7%
2010	68,982	+12.6%
2015	72,795	+5.5%
2020	77,432	+6.4%
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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]

References

^ ^a ^b 2020 Perote CENSUS
^ Triedo, Nicolas (February 2008). "Fin de semana en Xalapa". Guía México Desconocido. 372: 42–48.

External links

Pictures of Perote - one has in the background the Cofre de Perote, another is a picture of a local bus.

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[2020CENSUSPEROTE-1] 2020 Perote CENSUS

[MexDes-2] Triedo, Nicolas (February 2008). "Fin de semana en Xalapa". Guía México Desconocido. 372: 42–48.

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