Coatzintla

Coatzintla is a municipality positioned inside the Mexican nation of Veracruz, within the location of Totonacapan, east of the Mexican republic. It limits the north with the municipalities of Tihuatlan and Poza Rica, to the east with the municipality of Papantla, to the west with the state of Puebla and to the southwest with the municipality of Coyutla. Its approximate distance by way of road to the kingdom capital is a 120 km.

The name of the municipality comes from the Nahuatl coatl culebra, diminutive reverential Tzin, Tlan place, Place of the small snake. According to the INEGI 2005 Population and Housing Count, the total populace of the municipality is 43,106 populations; the municipal capital is conurbated with the urban sprawl of the town of Poza Rica de Hidalgo. The first references to the area suggest that already in the pre-Hispanic generation there was a agreement. In 1581 whilst organizing as a congregation its miles problem to the canton of Papantla, the ancient information seeks advice from the popularity of its territorial existence by way of Don Carlos Romero de la Vega in 1710.