Tepic Municipality

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.

Tepic
Official seal of Tepic
Location of Tepic Municipality in Nayarit
Location of Tepic Municipality in Nayarit
Coordinates: 21°38′N 104°51′W
Country Mexico
State Nayarit
SeatTepic
Time zoneUTC−7 (MST (Zona Pacífico))
  Summer (DST)UTC−6 (MDT (Zona Pacífico))

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:

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

Politics

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 House of federal Deputies, the municipality of Tepic is included in the following electoral districts:

Municipal presidents

Term Municipal president Political party Notes
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 HíjarPNR
1931–1932Luis G. HernándezPNR
1933–1934Everardo Peña NavarroPNR
1935–1936Eduardo López VidrioPNR
1937–1938Amado Jiménez BorrayoPNR
PRM
1939–1940Roberto H. HernándezPRM
1941–1942Froylán AmaralPRM
1943–1944Rnrique RuvalcabaPRM
1945J. Jesús Mora YáñezPRM
01/01/1946–31/12/1948Tomás Rojas CardielPRI
01/01/1949–31/12/1951Ignacio Cuesta BarriosPRI
01/01/1952–31/12/1954Felipe Ibarra PartidaPRI
01/01/1955–31/12/1957Alberto Medina MuñozPRI
01/01/1958–31/12/1960Ignacio Delgadillo de la PazPRI
01/01/1961–31/12/1963José Vicente Ruelas PreciadoPRI
01/01/1964–31/12/1966Alfonso Orozco OrtegaPRI
01/01/1967–31/12/1969Neófito Haro CarrilloPRI
01/01/1970–31/12/1972J. Jesús Hernández GuillénPRI
01/01/1973–1975Alejandro Gascón MercadoPPS He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office
1975–31/12/1975Rafael Gómez AguilarPPS Acting municipal president
1976–1978José Ramón Navarro QuinteroPRI
1978–1981José Félix Torres HaroPRI
1981–1984José Manuel Rivas AllendePRI
1984–1987Braulio Pérez ValdiviaPRI
1987–1990Remigio Rosales VegaPRI
1990–1993Alejandro Rivas CurielPRI
17/09/1993–16/09/1996José Raúl Mejía GonzálezPRI
17/09/1996–16/09/1999[5]José Félix Torres HaroPRI
17/09/1999–12/11/2001[6]Justino Ávila ArcePAN
PRD
PT
PRS
Alliance for Change. He died while in office
13/11/2001–16/09/2002María Eugenia Jiménez ValenzuelaPAN
PRD
PT
PRS
Alliance for Change. Acting municipal president
17/09/2002–15/12/2004[7]Ney González SánchezPRI He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office
16/12/2004–16/09/2005Cora Cecilia Pinedo AlonsoPRI Acting municipal president
17/09/2005–16/09/2008[8]Manuel Humberto Cota JiménezPRI
17/09/2008–10/01/2011 [9][10]Roberto Sandoval CastañedaPRI He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office
11/01/2011–16/09/2011Georgina López AriasPRI Acting municipal president
17/09/2011–16/09/2014[11]Héctor González CurielPRI
PVEM
Panal
Coalition "Nayarit Unites Us"
17/09/2014–24/11/2016[12][13]Leopoldo Domínguez GonzálezPAN
PRD
He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office
24/11/2016–16/09/2017David Guerrero CastellónPAN
PRD
Acting municipal president
17/09/2017–08/03/2021[14]Francisco Javier Castellón FonsecaPAN
PRD
PT
PRS
Coalition "Together For You"
08/03/2021–16/09/2021[15] Miguel Ángel Arce MontielPAN
PRD
PT
PRS
Coalition "Together For You". Acting municipal president
17/09/2021–01/05/2023[16][17]María Geraldine Ponce MéndezMorena
PVEM
PT
Panal
02/05/2023–19/06/2023[18]Hugo Alejandro Galván AraizaMorena
PVEM
PT
Panal
Acting municipal president
20/06/2023–13/07/2023María Geraldine Ponce MéndezMorena
PVEM
PT
Panal
Temporarily resumed
14/07/2023–[19]Martha Leticia Araiza VelascoMorena
PVEM
PT
Panal
Acting municipal president

References

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