Tepic | |
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 Location of Tepic Municipality in Nayarit | |
| Coordinates: 21°38′N104°51′W / 21.633°N 104.850°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State |  Nayarit |
| Seat | Tepic |
| 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; its head city (the seat of the municipal government), the city of Tepic, is also the capital of the state.
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.
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]
In the municipality of Tepic there are 138 localities. List of localities with population above 1,000 include:
| Locality | Population |
| Municipality Population Total | 380,249 |
| Tepic | 332,863 |
| Francisco I. Madero (Puga) | 7,091 |
| San Cayetano | 4,345 |
| Camichin de Jauja | 2,358 |
| Bellavista | 2,291 |
| El Jicote | 1,882 |
| Atonalisco | 1,711 |
| Santiago of Pochotitán | 1,668 |
| CEFERESO | 1,362 |
| Lo de Lamedo | 1,356 |
| San Luis of Lozada | 1,187 |
| La Cantera | |
| 1,148 | |
| Colonia 6 de Enero | 1,141 |
| La Corregidora | 1,089 |
| La Fortuna | 1,046 |
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]
For the election of local deputies to the Congress of Nayarit and of federal deputies to the House of federal Deputies, the municipality of Tepic is included in the following electoral districts:
| Term | Municipal president | Political party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1912–1915 | Jorge Federico Beyer Witthofftt | ||
| 1915 [4] | Carlos Castilla | ||
| 1916–1917 | Francisco Anguiano Ortiz | ||
| 1918 | ?? | ||
| 1919 | J. Isaac Jiménez | ||
| 1920 | Juan Arana V. | ||
| 1921–1922 | José María Terán | ||
| 1923–1924 | José Santos Rodríguez | ||
| 1925–1926 | Ignacio de la Torre | ||
| 1927–1928 | Salvador Amezcua | ||
| 1929–1930 | Aurelio Guerrero Híjar | PNR  | |
| 1931–1932 | Luis G. Hernández | PNR | |
| 1933–1934 | Everardo Peña Navarro | PNR | |
| 1935–1936 | Eduardo López Vidrio | PNR | |
| 1937–1938 | Amado Jiménez Borrayo | PNR PRM  | |
| 1939–1940 | Roberto H. Hernández | PRM | |
| 1941–1942 | Froylán Amaral | PRM | |
| 1943–1944 | Rnrique Ruvalcaba | PRM | |
| 1945 | J. Jesús Mora Yáñez | PRM | |
| 01/01/1946–31/12/1948 | Tomás Rojas Cardiel | PRI  | |
| 01/01/1949–31/12/1951 | Ignacio Cuesta Barrios | PRI | |
| 01/01/1952–31/12/1954 | Felipe Ibarra Partida | PRI | |
| 01/01/1955–31/12/1957 | Alberto Medina Muñoz | PRI | |
| 01/01/1958–31/12/1960 | Ignacio Delgadillo de la Paz | PRI | |
| 01/01/1961–31/12/1963 | José Vicente Ruelas Preciado | PRI | |
| 01/01/1964–31/12/1966 | Alfonso Orozco Ortega | PRI | |
| 01/01/1967–31/12/1969 | Neófito Haro Carrillo | PRI | |
| 01/01/1970–31/12/1972 | J. Jesús Hernández Guillén | PRI | |
| 01/01/1973–1975 | Alejandro Gascón Mercado | PPS  | He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office |
| 1975–31/12/1975 | Rafael Gómez Aguilar | PPS | Acting municipal president |
| 1976–1978 | José Ramón Navarro Quintero | PRI | |
| 1978–1981 | José Félix Torres Haro | PRI | |
| 1981–1984 | José Manuel Rivas Allende | PRI | |
| 1984–1987 | Braulio Pérez Valdivia | PRI | |
| 1987–1990 | Remigio Rosales Vega | PRI | |
| 1990–1993 | Alejandro Rivas Curiel | PRI | |
| 17/09/1993–16/09/1996 | José Raúl Mejía González | PRI | |
| 17/09/1996–16/09/1999 [5] | José Félix Torres Haro | PRI | |
| 17/09/1999–12/11/2001 [6] | Justino Ávila Arce | PAN  PRD  PT  PRS  | Alliance for Change. He died while in office |
| 13/11/2001–16/09/2002 | María Eugenia Jiménez Valenzuela | PAN PRD PT PRS | Alliance for Change. Acting municipal president |
| 17/09/2002–15/12/2004 [7] | Ney González Sánchez | PRI | He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office |
| 16/12/2004–16/09/2005 | Cora Cecilia Pinedo Alonso | PRI | Acting municipal president |
| 17/09/2005–16/09/2008 [8] | Manuel Humberto Cota Jiménez | PRI | |
| 17/09/2008–10/01/2011 [9] [10] | Roberto Sandoval Castañeda | PRI | He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office |
| 11/01/2011–16/09/2011 | Georgina López Arias | PRI | Acting municipal president |
| 17/09/2011–16/09/2014 [11] | Héctor González Curiel | PRI PVEM  Panal  | Coalition "Nayarit Unites Us" |
| 17/09/2014–24/11/2016 [12] [13] | Leopoldo Domínguez González | PAN PRD | He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office |
| 24/11/2016–16/09/2017 | David Guerrero Castellón | PAN PRD | Acting municipal president |
| 17/09/2017–08/03/2021 [14] | Francisco Javier Castellón Fonseca | PAN PRD PT PRS | Coalition "Together For You" |
| 08/03/2021–16/09/2021 [15] | Miguel Ángel Arce Montiel | PAN PRD PT PRS | Coalition "Together For You". Acting municipal president |
| 17/09/2021–01/05/2023 [16] [17] | María Geraldine Ponce Méndez | Morena  PVEM PT Panal | |
| 02/05/2023–19/06/2023 [18] | Hugo Alejandro Galván Araiza | Morena PVEM PT Panal | Acting municipal president |
| 20/06/2023–13/07/2023 | María Geraldine Ponce Méndez | Morena PVEM PT Panal | Temporarily resumed |
| 14/07/2023– [19] | Martha Leticia Araiza Velasco | Morena PVEM PT Panal | Acting municipal president |
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