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Perote, Veracruz

Perote
City and municipality
Top: Perote Municipal Hall; Middle: San Antonio Limón Church, San Carlos Fortress; Bottom: Cofre de Perote, Calvario Church
Coat of arms of Perote
Perote is located in Veracruz
Perote
Perote
Location in Mexico
Perote is located in Mexico
Perote
Perote
Perote (Mexico)
Coordinates: 19°33′43″N 97°14′31″W / 19.56194°N 97.24194°W / 19.56194; -97.24194
Country Mexico
StateVeracruz
RegionCapital Region
Government
 • MayorDelfino Ortega Martínez (PRI)
Area
 • Municipality
614.7 km2 (237.3 sq mi)
Elevation
(of seat)
2,425 m (7,956 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • Municipality
77,432
 • Seat
42,451
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (US Central))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central)
Postal code (of seat)
30128
ClimateET
Website(in Spanish)
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1995 51,688—    
2000 54,365+5.2%
2005 61,272+12.7%
2010 68,982+12.6%
2015 72,795+5.5%
2020 77,432+6.4%
[1]

Perote is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city serves as the seat of government for the surrounding municipality of the same name, with a population 42,451 inhabitants as 2020, while the municipality population is of 77,432.[1] Perote borders the municipalitys of Las Vigas de Ramírez, Acajete, Xico and Tlalnelhuayocan, and the state of Puebla. It is on Federal Highway 140.

Its climate is cold and dry with an annual average temperature of 12 degrees Celsius.

Perote's fortress of San Carlos once served as a prison. Guadalupe Victoria died there.

Also in Perote is the Cofre de Perote shield-shaped volcano (the Nahuatl name of which was "Naucampatepetl," which means "four times lord").

This town is the home of a sizable Spanish community which immigrated here in the 1930s. Because of this, it is known for Spanish-style cured meats and sausage such as jamón serrano (serrano ham), botifarra (Catalán sausage), and Spanish chorizo sausage.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b 2020 Perote CENSUS
  2. ^ Triedo, Nicolas (February 2008). "Fin de semana en Xalapa". Guía México Desconocido. 372: 42–48.
  • Pictures of Perote - one has in the background the Cofre de Perote, another is a picture of a local bus.


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