Perote is a city and

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in the

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. 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 77,432.2020 Perote CENSUS
/ref> Perote borders the municipalitys of Las Vigas de Ramírez, Acajete, Xico and

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, and the state of

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. 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 Guadalupe Victoria (; 29 September 178621 March 1843), born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, was a Mexican general and politician who fought for independence against the Spanish Empire in the Mexican War of Independence and afte ...

died there. Also in Perote is the

Cofre de Perote Cofre de Perote, also known by its Nahuatl names Naupa-Tecutépetl (from ''Nāuhpa-Tēuctēpetl'') and Nauhcampatépetl, both meaning something like "Place of Four Mountains" or "Mountain of the Lord of Four Places", is an inactive volcano locate ...

shield-shaped

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(the

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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

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(serrano ham),

botifarra ''Botifarra'' (; ) is a type of sausage and one of the most important dishes of the Catalan cuisine. ''Botifarra'' is based on ancient recipes, either the Roman sausage ''botulu'' or the '' lucanica'', made of raw pork and spices, with vari ...

(Catalán sausage), and Spanish

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sausage.

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Pictures of Perote
- one has in the background the Cofre de Perote, another is a picture of a local bus. Populated places in Veracruz Oriental Basin {{Veracruz-geo-stub