Veracruz

Veracruz is a municipality and the largest and most important state of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave city as well as the central city that names the urban area known as the Metropolitan Area of Veracruz. It has the most important commercial seaport Méxic is located 90 km away from the capital of Xalapa and 400 km away from the City of Mexico state. Bordered on the north by the municipality of La Antigua and the Gulf of Mexico , to the south with the municipalities of Medellín and Boca del Rio , on the east by the Gulf of Mexico and to the west by the municipalities of Manlius and Sheep Pass . Its climate is warm tropical, with an average annual temperature of 25.3 ° C. Historically this port city known for having been founded by Hernán Cortés , being in the region by the Spaniards landed to undertake the conquest of Tenochtitlan. He has received the appointment of four times heroic by presidential decree following have faced four different foreign invasions.