Tehuipango is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
located in the montane central zone in the
Mexican state
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* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
of
Veracruz
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, about 110 km from the state capital
Xalapa
Xalapa or Jalapa (, ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (), is the capital city of the Mexico, Mexican List of states of Mexico, state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In 2020 census the city reported a population of 443,063 ...
. It has a surface of 111.04 km2. It is located at . Santiago Tehuipango, it was a people belonging to Zongolica's federation, during the 16th century, later it tried to form its own town hall; in 1831 a municipality was consisting already of basics schools and parish of masonry. It was bordering on Mixtla, Eloxitlan, Alcomunga, Astacinga and Texhuacán.
Geography
The municipality of Tehuipango is delimited to the north by
Astacinga,
Mixtla de Altamirano and
Zongolica and to the south by
Puebla
Puebla, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is Puebla City. Part of east-centr ...
State.
It is watered by the Rio Moyoteampa that is a tributary of the affluent Idiot of the river Papaloapan.
The weather in Tehuipango is very cold 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 ...
,
plum
A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus, ''Prunus'' subg. ''Prunus'.'' Dried plums are often called prunes, though in the United States they may be labeled as 'dried plums', especially during the 21st century.
Plums are ...
,
apple
An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...
,
pea
Pea (''pisum'' in Latin) is a pulse or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Peas are eaten as a vegetable. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name ''Pisum sativum' ...
and
faba bean
''Vicia faba'', commonly known as the broad bean, fava bean, or faba bean, is a species of vetch, a flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated as a crop for human consumption, and also as a cover crop. Vari ...
.
Celebrations
In Tehuipango , in July takes place the celebration in honor to Santiago Apostol, Patron of the town, and in December takes place the celebration in honor to Virgen de Guadalupe.
References
External links
*
Municipal Official webpage*
Municipal Official Information
{{Veracruz
Municipalities of Veracruz