Cosamaloapan is a city and municipality located along the

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in the central part of the Mexican

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, about 240 km from

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, the state capital. It has a surface of 323.26 km2. It is located at . The poet Manuel Carpio was born in Cosamaloapan. Cosamaloapan serves as the municipal seat of the

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of Cosamaloapan de Carpio, which was so renamed in honour of its most famous son in 1918.

Geography

The municipality of Cosamaloapan is delimited to the north by Tierra Blanca and

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to the south by

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and Tuxtilla to the east by Carlos A. Carrillo and to the west by Tres Valles. It is watered by small creeks of the river Papaloapan. The weather in Cosamaloapan is warm and wet all year with rains in summer and autumn.

Agriculture

It produces principally

maize Maize (; ''Zea mays''), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native American ...

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sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...

watermelon The watermelon (''Citrullus lanatus'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Cucurbitaceae, that has a large, edible fruit. It is a Glossary of botanical terms#scandent, scrambling and trailing vine-like plant, and is plant breeding ...

and

green chile Chili peppers, also spelled chile or chilli ( ), are varieties of berry-fruit plants from the genus ''Capsicum'', which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for their pungency. They are used as a spice to add pungency ( ...

Celebrations

In Cosamaloapan, in May takes place the celebration in honor of the Virgen de la Concepción, Patron of the town, and in December takes place the celebration in honor of the Virgen de Guadalupe.

References

External links

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Municipal Official webpage
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Municipal Official Information
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