San Juan Evangelista is a municipality located in the plains of the Sotavento zone in the central zone of the Mexican state of Veracruz , about 260 km from the state capital Xalapa . It has a surface of 968.94 km2. It is located at 17°53′N 95°08′W / 17.883°N 95.133°W / 17.883; -95.133 .
5-751: The municipality of San Juan Evangelista is delimited to the north by Acayucan , to the east by Sayula de Alemán , to the south-east by Jesús Carranza , to the south by Oaxaca State and to the west by Juan Rodríguez Clara . There is watered by the river San Juan, which is a tributary of the Papaloapan. The weather in San Juan Evangelista is very warm and wet all year with rains in summer and autumn. It produces principally maize , beans , coffee , rice , orange fruit and green chile . In San Juan Evangelista , in December takes place
10-607: A villa in 1824 and a town on June 13, 1848. The community was destroyed by a hurricane in 1888. Hilario C. Salas took the town of Acayucan in his fight against the Porfirian dictatorship in 1906. San Martin Acayucan became a city on September 26, 1910. Electrification came to the city in 1946. The Catholic church was destroyed in the July 1957 earthquake . In 2005–07, the municipal president (mayor) of Acayucan
15-539: Is the city of Acayucan, Veracruz . It covers a total of 724.65 km (279.79 sq mi). At the 2005 INEGI Census, the municipality reported a population of 79,459, of whom 49,945 lived in the municipal seat. Of the municipality's population, 3,655 (5.22%) spoke an indigenous language , primarily Popoluca , followed in numbers by Zapotec . In addition to the seat, the municipality's largest other communities are Corral Nuevo and Dehesa . Conquistadores Gonzalo de Sandoval and Hernan Cortés passed through Acayucan on
20-592: The celebration in honor to San Juan Evangelista, Patron of the town, and takes place the celebration in honor to Virgen de Guadalupe. Mariano Rodríguez Pérez, commander of the municipal police department, was assassinated in February 2019. Acayucan (municipality) Acayucan is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz . It is located in the state's southeast, in the Olmeca region. The municipal seat
25-517: The route from Tuxtepec to Tenochititlan . In 1580 it was part of the ′′Villa de Espíritu Santo′′ ( Coatzacoalcos ); when this was wiped out by pirates, Ayayucan became the seat of the Alcaldía mayor . The local indigenous population rose up in rebellion in 1787. After the Mexican War of Independence in 1821, the Acayucan municipality was established in 1824. San Martin Acayucan became
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