Tepic Municipality


The Municipality of Tepic is one of the 20 municipalities dividing the Mexican state of Nayarit; its head city, 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 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 to a minimum of 328 feet above sea level.

Demography

According to the results of the 2010 General Census of Population and Housing conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, the municipality of Tepic has a total population of 380,249 people, of which 185,167 are men and 195,082 are women.

Localities

In the municipality of Tepic there are 138 localities. List of localities with population above 1,000 include:
LocalityPopulation
Municipality Population Total380,249
Tepic332,863
Francisco I. Madero 7,091
San Cayetano4,345
Camichin de Jauja2,358
Bellavista2,291
El Jicote1,882
Atonalisco1,711
Santiago of Pochotitán1,668
CEFERESO1,362
Lo de Lamedo1,356
San Luis of Lozada1,187
La Cantera
1,148
Colonia 6 de Enero1,141
La Corregidora1,089
La Fortuna1,046

Political

The government of the municipality corresponds him to the City council, that conforms by the Municipal President, a Syndic and 16 Councillors; all are elect by means of free popular vote, direct and secret for a period of three years no reelegibles for the period inmediado but if of form no contínua and go in to exert his charges the day 17 September of the year of his election.

Legislative representation

For the election of local deputies to the Congress of Nayarit and of federal deputies to the Camera of federal Deputies, the municipality of Tepic finds integrated in the following electoral districts: