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
Municipality
Seal
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
Seat	Tepic
Time zone	UTC−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:

• I Electoral District Venue of Nayarit with cabecera in Tepic.
• II Electoral District Venue of Nayarit with cabecera in Tepic.
• III Electoral District Venue of Nayarit with cabecera in Tepic.
• II Electoral District Federal of Nayarit with cabecera in the city of Tepic.^[3]

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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