Tepic
Municipality
Official seal of Tepic
Seal
Location of Tepic Municipality in Nayarit
Location of Tepic Municipality in Nayarit
Coordinates: 21°38′N 104°51′W / 21.633°N 104.850°W / 21.633; -104.850
Country Mexico
State Nayarit
SeatTepic
Time zoneUTC−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.

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
1912–1915 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

References

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