Contepec

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Contepec
Municipality
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Contepec
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 19°57′14″N100°09′49″W / 19.95389°N 100.16361°W / 19.95389; -100.16361 Coordinates: 19°57′14″N100°09′49″W / 19.95389°N 100.16361°W / 19.95389; -100.16361 [1]
CountryFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
State Flag of Michoacan.svg  Michoacán
Established 24 July 1857
Seat Contepec
Government [2]
 • President Ruben Rodríguez Jiménez
Area [3]
 • Total 381.725 km2 (147.385 sq mi)
Elevation [1] (of seat) 2,497 m (8,192 ft)
Population (2010 Census) [3]
 • Total 32,954
 • Estimate (2015 Intercensal Survey) [4] 34,193
 • Density 86/km2 (220/sq mi)
 • Seat 4,184
Time zone Central (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) Central (UTC-5)
Postal codes 61020–61055 [5]
Area code 447
Website Official website

Contepec is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán, located 110 kilometres (68 mi) east of the state capital of Morelia.

Municipalities are the second-level administrative divisions of Mexico, where the first-level administrative division is the state. As of the establishment of two new municipalities in Chiapas in September 2017, there are 2,448 municipalities in Mexico, not including the 16 delegaciones of Mexico City. The internal political organization and their responsibilities are outlined in the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution and detailed in the constitutions of the states to which they belong.

Mexico country in the southern portion of North America

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi), the nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent state in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million people, the country is the eleventh most populous state and the most populous Spanish-speaking state in the world, while being the second most populous nation in Latin America after Brazil. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, a special federal entity that is also the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the state include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana and León.

Michoacán State of Mexico

Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo, is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. The State is divided into 113 municipalities and its capital city is Morelia. The city was named after José María Morelos, one of the main heroes of the Mexican War of Independence.

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Geography

The municipality of Contepec is located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in northeast Michoacán at an altitude between 2,100 and 3,200 metres (6,900–10,500 ft). It borders the Michoacano municipalities of Epitacio Huerta to the northwest, Maravatío to the west, and Tlalpujahua to the southwest, as well as the municipalities of Amealco de Bonfil in Querétaro to the northeast, and Temascalcingo and El Oro de Hidalgo of the State of Mexico to the east and southeast. [6] The municipality covers an area of 381.725 square kilometres (147.385 sq mi) [3] and comprises 0.6% of the state's area. [4]

Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt arc of volcanic mountains across central-southern Mexico

The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, also known as the Transvolcanic Belt and locally as the Sierra Nevada, is a volcanic belt that covers central-southern Mexico. Several of its highest peaks have snow all year long, and during clear weather, they are visible to a large percentage of those who live on the many high plateaus from which these volcanoes rise.

Maravatío Municipality in Michoacán, Mexico

Maravatío is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán, representing 1.17% of its land area, or 691.55 km2.

Tlalpujahua Town & Municipality in Michoacán, Mexico

Tlalpujahua is a town and municipality located in the far northeast of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. It is a former mining town, home of the Dos Estrellas Mine, which was the leading producer of gold in the early 20th century. A major landslide of mud and mining debris damaged this mine and buried about one-third of the town in 1937. Mining continued until 1959, but nationalization of the mine by President Cardenas in the 1930's led to the demise of the mine and impoverishment of the town. In the 1960s, a local by the name of Joaquín Muñoz Orta began making Christmas tree ornaments here. This eventually grew into what is now one of the largest producers of ornaments called Adornos Navideños SA de CV. In addition to this and another factory, there are about 150 small workshops dedicated to making Christmas items, with about 70% of the town’s economy based on it. In 2005, the town, with its narrow stone streets and adobe/stone houses with red tile roofs, was made a Pueblo Mágico as part of its efforts to attract tourism.

Farmland covers 64% of Contepec. [6] The mountains on the municipality's eastern border with Temascalcingo are protected as the Altamirano unit of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [7]

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve biosphere reserve

The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is a World Heritage Site containing most of the over-wintering sites of the eastern population of the monarch butterfly. The reserve is located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests ecoregion on the border of Michoacán and State of Mexico, 100 km, northwest of Mexico City. Millions of butterflies arrive in the reserve annually. Butterflies only inhabit a fraction of the 56,000 hectares of the reserve from October–March. The biosphere’s mission is to protect the butterfly species and its habitat.

World Heritage Site place listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or natural significance

A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties. The sites are judged important to the collective interests of humanity.

Tepuxtepec Dam is located on the Lerma River which flows through the northern and western part of Contepec. Built from 1926 to 1950, the dam and its reservoir are used for hydroelectricity generation, flood control and irrigation. [8]

Lerma River river in Mexico

The Lerma River is Mexico's second longest river. It is a 750 km-long (470 mi) river in west-central Mexico that begins in Mexican Plateau at an altitude over 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) above sea level, and ends where it empties into Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest lake, near Guadalajara, Jalisco. Lake Chapala is the starting point of Río Grande de Santiago, which some treat as a continuation of the Lerma River. In combination, the two are often called the Lerma Santiago River. The Lerma River is notorious for its pollution, but the water quality has demonstrated considerable improvement in recent years due mostly to government environmental programs and through massive upgrading projects of sanitation works.

Contepec's climate is temperate with rain in the summer. [2] Average temperatures in the municipality range between 12 and 18 °C (54–64 °F), and average annual precipitation ranges between 700 and 1,000 millimetres (28–39 in). [6]

History

The place name Contepec derives from Nahuatl comitl, pot, and tepetl, "hill". In pre-Hispanic times the area was inhabited by Guamare and Pame indigenous peoples: epidemics caused their extinction in the area by the end of the 16th century. The area was repopulated in the 17th century by Otomi and Mazahua settlers. [2]

Nahuatl, known historically as Aztec, is a language or group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about 1.7 million Nahua peoples, most of whom live in central Mexico.

Guamare indigenous people of Mexico

The Guamare people were an indigenous people of Mexico, who were established mostly in Guanajuato and at the border of Jalisco. They were part of the Chichimecas, a group of a nomadic hunter-gatherer culture and called themselves Children of the Wind, living religiously from the natural land. As a tradition, they would cremate their dead and spread their ashes into the wind back to 'Mother Earth'. The Guamare people were politically united with the Chichimeca Confederation, but like other Chichimeca nations were independent. The Chichimeca were established in the present-day Bajio region of Mexico.

Pame people

The Pame are an indigenous people of central Mexico living in the state of San Luis Potosí. They call themselves Xi'úi. They speak the Pame languages, which belong to the Oto-Pamean group of the Oto-Manguean language family.

In the first half of the 19th century Contepec was part of the municipality of Coroneo in Guanajuato. [2] In 1857 it was separated from Guanajuato and incorporated as a municipality in Michoacán. Between 1935 and 1938 the municipal seat was located at Tepuxtepec. In 1962 the municipality of Epitacio Huerta was separated from Contepec. [11]

Administration

The municipal government comprises a president, a councillor (Spanish: síndico), and seven trustees (regidores), four elected by relative majority and three by proportional representation. [2] The current president of the municipality is Ruben Rodríguez Jiménez. [2]

Demographics

In the 2010 Mexican Census, the municipality of Contepec recorded a population of 32,954 inhabitants living in 7723 households. [12] The 2015 Intercensal Survey estimated a population of 34,193 inhabitants in Contepec. [4]

There are 74 localities in the municipality, [1] of which only the municipal seat, also known as Contepec, is classified as urban. It recorded a population of 4184 inhabitants in the 2010 Census. [12]

Economy

The main economic activities in Contepec are agriculture and livestock farming. [13]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Contepec". Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México (in Spanish). INAFED . Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "Contepec: Datos generales". Cédulas de información municipal (in Spanish). SEDESOL. 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 Panorama sociodemográfico de Michoacán de Ocampo 2015 (PDF) (in Spanish). INEGI. 2016. p. 68. ISBN   978-607-739-850-9.
  5. ↑ "Consulta Códigos Postales". Catálogo Nacional de Códigos Postales. Mexican Postal Service. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 "Compendio de Información Geográfica Municipal 2010: Contepec, Michoacán de Ocampo" (in Spanish). INEGI. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve: World Heritage Site Nomination Document" (PDF). UNESCO. January 2007. p. 11. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Presa Tepuxtepec" (in Spanish). 19 February 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "NORMALES CLIMATOLÓGICAS" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional . Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "NORMALES CLIMATOLÓGICAS" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  11. ↑ Estado de Michoacán de Ocampo. División Territorial de 1810 a 1995 (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico: INEGI. 1996. pp. 78, 116–117. ISBN   970-13-1501-4.
  12. 1 2 "Resumen municipal: Municipio de Contepec". Catálogo de Localidades (in Spanish). SEDESOL. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  13. ↑ Contepec Municipal Council (9 December 2016). "Plan de Desarrollo Municipal 2015–2018" (PDF). Periódico Oficial del Estado de Michoacán (in Spanish). Government of Michoacán. p. 10. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
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