Contepec Municipality
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Contepec is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán, located east of the state capital of Morelia, being the easternmost municipality in Michoacán.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Contepec
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.seal_size
- 70px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico Michoacán#Mexico
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.seat_type
- Seat
- Settlement.seat
- Contepec
- Settlement.leader_title
- President
- Settlement.leader_name
- Ruben Rodríguez Jiménez
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 24 July 1857
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 381.725
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2010 Census
- Settlement.population_total
- 32954
- Settlement.pop_est_as_of
- 2015 Intercensal Survey
- Settlement.population_est
- 34193
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Michoacán
- Capital
- Contepec
- Area
- 381.725
- Elevation
- 2492
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Official website
- contepec.gob.mx
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- contains settlement
- La Puerta
- inception
- 1857-01-01
- Commons category
- Contepec Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Administration
- Demographics
- Economy
- References
Contepec is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán, located east of the state capital of Morelia, being the easternmost municipality in Michoacán.
==Geography== The municipality of Contepec is located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in northeast Michoacán at an altitude between . It borders the Michoacano municipalities of Epitacio Huerta to the northwest, Maravatío to the west, and Tlalpujahua to the southwest, as well as the municipalities of Amealco de Bonfil in Querétaro to the northeast, and Temascalcingo and El Oro de Hidalgo of the State of Mexico to the east and southeast. The municipality covers an area of and comprises 0.6% of the state's area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Contepec Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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