Jáltipan is a municipality in

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 ...

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. It is located in the southern part of the state of

, about 380 km from state capital

Xalapa Xalapa or Jalapa (, ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (), is the capital city of the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and t ...

. It has a surface of 331.48 km². It is located at . The municipality of Jáltipan is delimited to the north by Chinameca, to the east by

Oteapan Oteapan is a Municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. It is in south-east zone of the State of Veracruz, about 394 km from state capital Xalapa. It has an area of 27.97 km2. It is located at . The municipality of Oteapan is delimited to the north by Chi ...

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tribut ...

Cosoleacaque Cosoleacaque is a municipality in the south-east zone of the State of Veracruz, Mexico. It is located about from the state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of . It is located at . Cosoleacaque borders to the north on Coatzacoalcos and Pajapan ...

and

Hidalgotitlán Hidalgotitlán is a town in the Mexican state of Veracruz, with a population of near 18,000 in 2000. Its name derives from two words: one Spanish and the other indigenous. The first part is the family name (after the father of the modern Mexican ...

, and to the west by

Texistepec Texistepec is a municipality located in the south-east zone in the State of Veracruz, about 285 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 615.26 km2. It is located at . Texistepec in 1580 concerned to Coatzacoalcos's province. In 1831 ...

and

Soconusco Soconusco is a region in the southwest corner of the state of Chiapas in Mexico along its border with Guatemala. It is a narrow strip of land wedged between the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It is the southernmost pa ...

. It produces principally

maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn ( North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. ...

beans A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes t ...

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly '' Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and ''Porteresia'', both wild and domestica ...

, and

orange Orange most often refers to: *Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis'' ** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower * Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum ...

s. In February the town holds a celebration in honor of , patron saint of the town. The weather in Jáltipan is warm all year with rains in summer and autumn. The town was severely damaged during an earthquake in 1959.

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