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Perote
City and municipality
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Top: Perote Municipal Hall; Middle: San Antonio Limón Church, San Carlos Fortress; Bottom: Cofre de Perote, Calvario Church
Coat of arms of Perote
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Perote is located in Veracruz
Perote
Perote
Location in Veracruz
Perote is located in Mexico
Perote
Perote
Location in Mexico
Country  Mexico
State Veracruz
Region Capital Region
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 zone UTC-6 (Central (US Central))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (Central)
Postal code (of seat)
30128
Climate ET
Historical population
Year Pop. ±%
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%

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. 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.

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