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 / 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))

Geography edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

 
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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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