Cerro Azul Municipality is one of the 212
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of the
Mexican state of
Veracruz
Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...
. It is located in the state's
Huasteca Baja region. The municipal seat is the city of
Cerro Azul, Veracruz.
In the 2005 INEGI Census, the municipality reported a total population of 24,739 (down from 27,071 in 1995), of whom
23,573 lived in the municipal seat.
Of the municipality's inhabitants, 565 (2%) spoke an
indigenous language, primarily
Huasteco and
Nahuatl.
Cerro Azul Municipality covers a total surface area of 92.50 km
2.
References
External links
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Municipal Official Site*
Municipal Official Information
Municipalities of Veracruz
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