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Magdalena Municipality, Veracruz

municipality in the State of Veracruz, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ2000139 ↗
Source-derived summary

Magdalena is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located in the central zone of Veracruz, about 125 km from the state capital Xalapa. It has an area of 28.79 km2. It is located at 18°45′N 97°03′W.

Geography

Magdalena is delimited to the north by San Andrés Tenejapan and Ixtaczoquitlán, to the east and south by Tequila and to the west by San Andrés Tenejapan.

The weather in Magdalena is cold all year with rain in summer and autumn.

Economy

It produces principally maize and coffee.

Culture

A celebration in honor of Santa María Magdalena, patron saint of the town, takes place in July.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Magdalena Municipality, Veracruz” as municipality in the State of Veracruz, Mexico. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 107-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Magdalena, Municipality and Veracruz can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipality in the State of Veracruz, Mexico. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2000139. Authority coordinates are 18.763, -97.043. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Magdalena Municipality, Veracruz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.