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Xalapa or Jalapa (English: / h ə ˈ l ɑː p ə /, [2] Spanish: ⓘ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (IPA: [xaˈlapa enˈrikes]), is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality.
General Juan de la Luz Enríquez Lara (born Tlacotalpan, May 16, 1836 – died Xalapa, March 17, 1892) was a Mexican politician. He served as Governor of Veracruz from 1884, until his death in 1892. The official name of the city of Xalapa, Xalapa Enríquez, is in his honor and he is the patron of the city.
The People's Autonomous University of Veracruz (UPAV) is a public institution of secondary and higher education, with its main headquarters located in Xalapa-Enríquez, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. [1]
Veracruz is divided into 212 municipalities, and its capital city is Xalapa-Enríquez. Veracruz has a significant share of the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico on the east of the state. The state is noted for its mixed ethnic and indigenous populations.
Veracruz is a state in central eastern Mexico that is divided into 212 municipalities.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the fourth most populated state with 8,062,579 inhabitants and the 11th largest by land area spanning 71,823.5 square kilometres (27,731.2 sq mi).
In 1886 Governor Enríquez commissioned Rébsamen to create a normal school in Xalapa and an annexed experimental school, which began operating the following year with twenty-five students. In it, with the most modern educational strategies of the time, he trained teachers who worked in different parts of the country, modifying primary education.
The states are the first-level administrative divisions of Mexico and are officially named the United Mexican States.There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate entity that is not formally a state).
Rafael Lucio Nájera (September 2, 1819 – May 30, 1886) was a Mexican physician, academic and scientist born in Xalapa-Enríquez, Veracruz, who devoted many years of his life to research leprosy. Biography