Veracruz comprises a long strip of land of jagged edges bounded by the sea and mountains. It has an area of 71,699 km ² and a population of 7,643,194 inhabitants.
Its territory is crossed by numerous rivers, among them: in the north, the Panuco, Tuxpan, the Cazones, the Tecolutla and Nautla, in the center of the Actopan, the former and Jamapa and in the south, Papaloapan and Coatzacoalcos. It also has serious shortcomings, one of the largest, even the country, is to Tamiahua and Lake Catemaco, where islands are inhabited by monkeys, with extensive vegetation. In Veracruz, on the border with Puebla state, lies the highest peak of Mexico, the volcano called Pico de Orizaba (5.610 meters). In its territory the country's largest port of the same name of the state. Also in Veracruz cultures settled important as the Olmec, Totonac and the Toltec, plus Otomi and Huasteca.
