Tezonapa is a

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located in the high mountain region in the

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, about 219 km from the state capital

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. It covers an area of . The law number 93 of December 22, 1960 San Agustín created Tezonapa's municipality with the congregations of the Josefinas, Prison, Tezonapa, Palmarito, etc.

Geography

The municipality of Tezonapa is delimited to the north by

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and to the east and south by

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State. The region closed to town is watered by the San Jerónimo and Santiago rivers which are tributaries to the

Tonto River The Tonto River is a river of Oaxaca, Mexico that flows from the mountains of Zongolica. It is dammed by the Miguel Alemán Dam near the town of Temascal or Nuevo Soyaltepec, forming the Miguel Alemán Lake. Below the dam, the river flows southeast ...

, which in turn is a tributary to the Presa Miguel Aleman, better known as: La Presa de Temazcal linked to the Rio Papaloapan. The weather is hot and humid all year with rains in summer and autumn. During the months of late April to late May the dry season creates a hot and dry environment, followed by the storm season with an average rainfall of 2,000 millimeters.

Agriculture

The region produces

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 ...

beans A bean is the seed of some plants in the legume family (Fabaceae) used as a vegetable for human consumption or animal feed. The seeds are often preserved through drying (a ''pulse''), but fresh beans are also sold. Dried beans are tradition ...

orange fruit The orange, also called sweet orange to distinguish it from the bitter orange (''Citrus × aurantium''), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae. Botanically, this is the hybrid ''Citrus'' × ''sinensis'', between the pomelo (''Citrus m ...

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 ...

and

coffee Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially a ...

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 ...

has been the main agricultural product, second to coffee and followed by seasonal fruits, mango, papaya, banana, orange, mamey, etc...

Celebrations

In June the celebration in honor to Corpus Christy takes place and in December takes place the celebration in honor to La Virgen de Guadalupe, the locals do long "peregrinaciones" (pilgrimage) to La Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City and back.

Roads

Tezonapa is linked to Cordoba and Tierra Blanca by paved roads, although the Tezonapa - Vicente Camalote section is bad, most of the rest it is ok. From Tezonapa you can get to many towns in the mountains: La Luisa, La Union, Laguna Chica, San Agustin, Posorrones, Palmarito, Las Josefinas, El Vado, etc... In Laguna Chica the roads part ways to La Raya Licona and Almilinga all the way to Tlacotepec de Diaz,

Economy

Tezonapa is home to the Ingenio Azucarero Constancia S.A. de C.V. (Sugarcane Processing Plant) which provides much needed jobs to locals. La Zafra (

harvest) which in turn provides hundreds of jobs to people living in towns spread across the region, both industries are the economic backbone of the entire region, followed by smaller jobs created by agriculture, construction, markets, etc...

Transportation

Autobuses del Palmar, with its headquarters in town, is the only company providing transportation services in the region, they have many destinations including: Tierra Blanca, Cordoba, Tlacotepec de Diaz, Palmar, Las Josefinas, Monte Alto, Almilinga, El Triunfo, Colonia Vicente Guerrero, etc...covering many small towns in their routes.

References

External links

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Municipal Official webpage
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Municipal Official Information
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