Tihuatlán (municipality)

Tihuatlán is a city and its surrounding municipality located in the north of the Mexican state of Veracruz, about from the state capital Xalapa. The municipality has a surface of. The municipality has a population of 92,726 inhabitants as 2020, however, only 16 % resides in the municipal seat.

Name

The name comes from the Nahuatl language cihua-tlan, which means "place of women".

Tihuatlán is delimited to the north by the municipalities of Temapache and Tuxpan, to the east by Papantla, Poza Rica and Cazones de Herrera, to the south by Coatzintla, and to the south-west by the state of Puebla. It is watered by the rivers Cazones and Tontepec, which end in the Gulf of Mexico.
The weather in Tihuatlán is warm and wet all year with rains in summer and autumn.

It primarily produces maize, beans, green chile and oranges.

In Tihuatlán, in October takes place the celebration in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, Patron of the town, and in December takes place the celebration in honor to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

El Tajín National Airport is located in Tihuatlán.