Tepic Municipality

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Tepic
Escudo Tepic.svg
Mexico Nayarit Tepic location map.svg
Location of Tepic Municipality in Nayarit
Coordinates: 21°38′N104°51′W / 21.633°N 104.850°W / 21.633; -104.850
CountryFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
State Flag of Nayarit.svg Nayarit
Seat Tepic
Population
 (2020)
  Total
425,924
Time zone UTC−7 (MST (Zona Pacífico))
  Summer (DST) UTC−6 (MDT (Zona Pacífico))

The Municipality of Tepic is one of the 20 municipalities dividing the Mexican state of Nayarit, being the most populous and most densely populated municipality in Nayarit; its head city (the seat of the municipal government), the city of Tepic, is also the capital of the state.

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Geography

The municipality of Tepic is located in the center-south zone of the state of Nayarit, just at the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range and in its transition towards the Pacific Coastal Plain. It has a territorial extension of 766 sq mi (1983.3 km2) that represent 7.25% of the total extension of Nayarit, ranking it as the sixth most extensive municipality in the state. Its geographic coordinates are 21° 23'N - 21° 52'N and 104° 35'W - 105° 09'W and its altitude ranges from a maximum of 7,546 feet (2,300 m) to a minimum of 328 feet (100 m) above sea level.

Demography

According to the results of the 2020 General Census of Population and Housing conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the municipality of Tepic has a total population of 425,924 people, of which 49.6% (211,258) are men and 50.4% (214,666) are women. [1]

Localities

In the municipality of Tepic there are 138 localities. List of localities with population above 1,000 include:

LocalityPopulation
Municipality Population Total380,249
Tepic 332,863
Francisco I. Madero (Puga)7,091
San Cayetano4,345
Camichin de Jauja2,358
Bellavista2,291
El Jicote1,882
Atonalisco1,711
Santiago of Pochotitán1,668
CEFERESO1,362
Lo de Lamedo1,356
San Luis of Lozada1,187
La Cantera
1,148
Colonia 6 de Enero1,141
La Corregidora1,089
La Fortuna1,046

Politics

Jorge Federico Beyer Witthofftt, municipal president of Tepic from
1912 to 1915 Jorge Federico Beyer Witthofftt.jpg
Jorge Federico Beyer Witthofftt, municipal president of Tepic from
1912 to 1915

The government of the municipality corresponds to the City Council which is made up of the municipal president, a syndic and 16 councillors; all are elected by free, direct and secret popular vote for a period of three years, not re-eligible for the immediate period but discontinuously, and they enter to exercise their positions on September 17 of the year of their election. [2]

Legislative representation

For the election of local deputies to the Congress of Nayarit and of federal deputies to the Chamber of Deputies, the municipality of Tepic is included in the following electoral districts:

Municipal presidents

TermMunicipal presidentPolitical partyNotes
1912–1915Jorge Federico Beyer Witthofftt
1915 [4] Carlos Castilla
1916–1917Francisco Anguiano Ortiz
1918??
1919J. Isaac Jiménez
1920Juan Arana V.
1921–1922José María Terán
1923–1924José Santos Rodríguez
1925–1926Ignacio de la Torre
1927–1928Salvador Amezcua
1929–1930Aurelio Guerrero Híjar PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
1931–1932Luis G. HernándezPNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
1933–1934 Everardo Peña Navarro  [ es ]PNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
1935–1936Eduardo López VidrioPNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
1937–1938Amado Jiménez BorrayoPNR Logo Partido Nacional Revolucionario.svg
PRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
1939–1940Roberto H. HernándezPRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
1941–1942Froylán AmaralPRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
1943–1944Rnrique RuvalcabaPRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
1945J. Jesús Mora YáñezPRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
01/01/1946–31/12/1948Tomás Rojas Cardiel PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
01/01/1949–31/12/1951Ignacio Cuesta BarriosPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
01/01/1952–31/12/1954Felipe Ibarra PartidaPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
01/01/1955–31/12/1957Alberto Medina MuñozPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
01/01/1958–31/12/1960Ignacio Delgadillo de la PazPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
01/01/1961–31/12/1963 José Vicente Ruelas Preciado  [ es ]PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
01/01/1964–31/12/1966Alfonso Orozco OrtegaPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
01/01/1967–31/12/1969Neófito Haro CarrilloPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
01/01/1970–31/12/1972J. Jesús Hernández GuillénPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
01/01/1973–1975 Alejandro Gascón Mercado  [ es ] PPS Emblema PPS.svg He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office
1975–31/12/1975Rafael Gómez AguilarPPS Emblema PPS.svg Acting municipal president
1976–1978José Ramón Navarro QuinteroPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1978–1981José Félix Torres HaroPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1981–1984José Manuel Rivas AllendePRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1984–1987Braulio Pérez ValdiviaPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1987–1990Remigio Rosales VegaPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1990–1993Alejandro Rivas CurielPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
17/09/1993–16/09/1996 Raúl Mejía  [ es ]PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
17/09/1996–16/09/1999 [5] José Félix Torres HaroPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
17/09/1999–12/11/2001 [6] Justino Ávila Arce  [ es ] PAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg
PRD PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
PRS Partido de la Revolucion Socialista de Nayarit.svg
Alliance for Change. He died while in office
13/11/2001–16/09/2002 María Eugenia Jiménez Valenzuela PAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg
PRD PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
PRS Partido de la Revolucion Socialista de Nayarit.svg
Alliance for Change. Acting municipal president
17/09/2002–15/12/2004 [7] Ney González Sánchez PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office
16/12/2004–16/09/2005 Cora Cecilia Pinedo Alonso PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg Acting municipal president
17/09/2005–16/09/2008 [8] Manuel Humberto Cota Jiménez PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
17/09/2008–10/01/2011 [9] [10] Roberto Sandoval Castañeda PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office
11/01/2011–16/09/2011Georgina López AriasPRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg Acting municipal president
17/09/2011–16/09/2014 [11] Héctor González Curiel PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
PVEM PVE logo (Mexico).svg
Panal PNA logo (Mexico).svg
Coalition "Nayarit Unites Us"
17/09/2014–24/11/2016 [12] [13] Leopoldo Domínguez González  [ es ]PAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg
PRD PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg
He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office
24/11/2016–16/09/2017David Guerrero CastellónPAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg
PRD PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg
Acting municipal president
17/09/2017–08/03/2021 [14] Francisco Javier Castellón Fonseca PAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg
PRD PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
PRS Partido de la Revolucion Socialista de Nayarit.svg
Coalition "Together For You"
08/03/2021–16/09/2021 [15] Miguel Ángel Arce MontielPAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg
PRD PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
PRS Partido de la Revolucion Socialista de Nayarit.svg
Coalition "Together For You". Acting municipal president
17/09/2021–01/05/2023 [16] [17] Geraldine Ponce Morena Morena logo (Mexico).svg
PVEM PVE logo (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
Panal PNA logo (Mexico).svg
02/05/2023–19/06/2023 [18] Hugo Alejandro Galván AraizaMorena Morena logo (Mexico).svg
PVEM PVE logo (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
Panal PNA logo (Mexico).svg
Acting municipal president
20/06/2023–13/07/2023 Geraldine Ponce Morena Morena logo (Mexico).svg
PVEM PVE logo (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
Panal PNA logo (Mexico).svg
Temporarily resumed
14/07/2023–27/08/2023 [19] Martha Leticia Araiza VelascoUnaffiliatedActing municipal president
28/08/2023–29/02/2024 [20] Geraldine Ponce

Morena Morena logo (Mexico).svg
PVEM PVE logo (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
Panal PNA logo (Mexico).svg

01/03/2024–06/08/2024 [21] Martha Leticia Araiza VelascoUnaffiliatedActing municipal president
07/08/2024–16/09/2024 Geraldine Ponce Morena Morena logo (Mexico).svg
PVEM PVE logo (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
Panal PNA logo (Mexico).svg
She resumed, to finish her first triennium (three-year period)
17/09/2024– [22] Geraldine Ponce Morena Morena logo (Mexico).svg
PVEM PVE logo (Mexico).svg
PT PT logo (Mexico).svg
Panal PNA logo (Mexico).svg
She was reelected

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