This article is about the city in Mexico. See Alvarado (disambiguation)

Alvarado (disambiguation)

-Places:*Alvarado, California, United States*Alvarado High School, Texas*Alvarado, Minnesota, United States*Alvarado , a municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz*Alvarado, Texas, United States...

 for other uses.

Alvarado (officially: Ilustre, Heroica y Generosa Ciudad y Puerto de Alvarado) is a city in the Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 state of Veracruz

Veracruz

Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave , is one of the 31 states that, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided in 212 municipalities and its capital city is...

. The city also serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality

Alvarado (municipality)

Alvarado is one of the 212 municipalities of the Mexican state of Veracruz which municipal seat is established in the city of Alvarado.-History:...

 of the same name. It is located 64 km from the city of Veracruz, Veracruz

Veracruz, Veracruz

Veracruz, officially known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipality on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city is located in the central part of the state. It is located along Federal Highway 140 from the state capital Xalapa, and is the state's most...

, on Federal Highways 180 and 125

Mexican Federal Highway

Mexican Federal Highways, are roads maintained and built by the federal government of Mexico, through the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation ....

. Alvarado is bordered by Boca del Río

Boca del Río, Veracruz

Boca del Río is a city and municipality located in the center of the state of Veracruz. The small city of Boca del Río serves as the seat of the municipality. The municipality lies just south of Veracruz Municipality, and contains a part of the city and port of Veracruz, Mexico...

, Tlalixcoyan

Tlalixcoyan

Tlalixcoyan is a municipality in Veracruz, Mexico.Tlalixcoyan is bordered by: Alvarado, Medellín, and Cotaxtla and is on Mexican Federal Highways 180 and 190....

, Medellín

Medellín, Veracruz

Medellín is a Municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. It is located in central zone of the State of Veracruz, about 100 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 370.14 km2....

, Ignacio de la Llave

Ignacio de la Llave

Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos was a general and the governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz from 1861 to 1862. He was born in Orizaba, Veracruz, a nephew of Dr. Pablo de la Llave...

, Ciudad Lerdo de Tejada, Tlacotalpan

Tlacotalpan

The city of Tlacotalpan is located in the eastern coastal region of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Although the area had been inhabited since pre-Columbian times, the modern-day settlement was founded as a river port on the banks of the Río Papaloapan in the mid-16th century...

 and Acula

Acula (municipality)

Acula is a municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. It is located about 230 km from state capital Xalapa to the south-east.The municipality of Acula is delimited to the east by the Tlacotalpan, to the south by the Amatitlán, to the west by the Ignacio de la Llave, and to the north by Alvarado.It produces...

. It is 10m above sea level. It lies in the so-called "Region Papaloapan" bordered on the south by the municipalities of Acula

Acula (municipality)

Acula is a municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. It is located about 230 km from state capital Xalapa to the south-east.The municipality of Acula is delimited to the east by the Tlacotalpan, to the south by the Amatitlán, to the west by the Ignacio de la Llave, and to the north by Alvarado.It produces...

, Tlacotalpan

Tlacotalpan

The city of Tlacotalpan is located in the eastern coastal region of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Although the area had been inhabited since pre-Columbian times, the modern-day settlement was founded as a river port on the banks of the Río Papaloapan in the mid-16th century...

 and Lerdo de Tejada, on the east by the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...

 and on the west by Ignacio de la Llave

Ignacio de la Llave

Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos was a general and the governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz from 1861 to 1862. He was born in Orizaba, Veracruz, a nephew of Dr. Pablo de la Llave...

.

The geographic size of Alvarado is 840 square kilometers.

The INEGI said that the population by 2000 was 22,608 people.

Alvarado was founded on the 16th century. On 1518 Pedro de Alvarado arrived to Atlizintla and name the town and river after himself. Then on 1563, Juan de Sahagún built the port of Alvarado. It was used to transport food to other countries.

Major products of Alvarado are coffee

Coffee

Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...

, fruit

Fruit

In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...

s, and sugar

Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...

. The economy of this region is developed on the Primary sector, which are fishing and farming ,this are the most productive activities, also the sugar cane and the coffee are really common in this region.

External links

Municipal Official Site

• Pictures of Alvarado. http://www.terra.com.mx/galeria.aspx?galeriaId=012301