The Municipality of Tepic is one of the 20 municipalities dividing the Mexican state of Nayarit, being the most populous and most densely populated municipality in 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.
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
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.
Legislative representation For the election of local deputies to the Congress of Nayarit and of federal deputies to the Chamber of Deputies, the municipality of Tepic is included in the following electoral districts: I Local Electoral District of Nayarit (Tepic). II Local Electoral District of Nayarit (Tepic). III Local Electoral District of Nayarit (Tepic). II Federal Electoral District of Nayarit (Tepic).
Municipal presidents Term Municipal president Political partyNotes1912–1915 Jorge Federico Beyer Witthofftt 1915 Carlos Castilla 1916–1917 Francisco Anguiano Ortiz 1918 Román Rojas 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 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 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 PPS He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office1975–31/12/1975 Rafael Gómez Aguilar PPS Acting municipal president1976–1978 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 PRI 17/09/1996–16/09/1999 José Félix Torres Haro PRI 17/09/1999–12/11/2001 PAN PRD PT PRS Alliance for Change. He died while in office13/11/2001–16/09/2002 María Eugenia Jiménez Valenzuela PAN PRD PT PRS Alliance for Change. Acting municipal president17/09/2002–15/12/2004 Ney González Sánchez PRI He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office16/12/2004–16/09/2005 Cora Cecilia Pinedo Alonso PRI Acting municipal president17/09/2005–16/09/2008 Manuel Humberto Cota Jiménez PRI 17/09/2008–10/01/2011 Roberto Sandoval Castañeda PRI He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office11/01/2011–16/09/2011 Georgina López Arias PRI Acting municipal president17/09/2011–16/09/2014 Héctor González Curiel PRI PVEM Panal Coalition "Nayarit Unites Us"17/09/2014–24/11/2016 PAN PRD He applied for a temporary leave to run for the Nayarit governor office24/11/2016–16/09/2017 David Guerrero Castellón PAN PRD Acting municipal president17/09/2017–08/03/2021 Francisco Javier Castellón Fonseca PAN PRD PT PRS Coalition "Together For You"08/03/2021–16/09/2021 Miguel Ángel Arce Montiel PAN PRD PT PRS Coalition "Together For You". Acting municipal president17/09/2021–01/05/2023 Geraldine Ponce Morena PVEM PT Panal 02/05/2023–19/06/2023 Hugo Alejandro Galván AraizaMorena PVEM PT Panal Acting municipal president20/06/2023–13/07/2023 Geraldine Ponce Morena PVEM PT Panal Temporarily resumed14/07/2023–27/08/2023 Martha Leticia Araiza Velasco Unaffiliated Acting municipal president28/08/2023–29/02/2024Geraldine PonceMorena PVEM PT Panal 01/03/2024–06/08/2024Martha Leticia Araiza VelascoUnaffiliatedActing municipal president07/08/2024–16/09/2024Geraldine Ponce Morena PVEM PT Panal She resumed, to finish her first triennium (three-year period)17/09/2024–Geraldine PonceMorena PVEM PT Panal She was reelected
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