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Puebla (municipality)

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Industry accounts for about eighty percent of the economy and is mostly based on the outskirts of the city as well as in some surrounding municipalities. Main products include basic metals, chemicals, electrical items and textiles. The main employers are Hylsa and the Volkswagen automotive plant. A
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The city of Puebla is the seat of the government for the 482 other communities in the municipality. However, 94% of the municipality's population of 1,485,941 is in the city proper. The historic center of the city of Puebla is a
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growing sector is food processing. Many industries are consolidated into parks such as the 5 de Mayo Industrial Park, the Resurrección Industrial Zone and the Puebla 2000 Industrial Park.
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and the growth of the city is making this a smaller sector of the economy. Crops raised include corn, beans, wheat, oats, avocados, pears, apples, peaches,
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The municipality is located in the west-central region of the State of Puebla, bordering the municipalities of Santo Domingo Huehutlán,
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Animal life consists mostly of small mammals such as rabbits and skunks, as well as birds such as owls, buzzards and wild waterfowl.
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in dry areas with shallow soils. Pine-fir forests are composed almost entirely of Hartweg's Pine
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The Sierra del Tentzon and higher elevations of Malinche volcano still conserve the
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Most of the municipality has been deforested, including the lower portions of the
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volcano and all the Sierra de Amozoc, due to logging and seasonal farming.
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Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal (2005).
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Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal
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is the municipal seat, as well as the capital of the state.
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Some agriculture still takes place in the municipality but
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Index

Municipality
Municipal Palace
Flag of Puebla Municipality
Coat of arms of Puebla Municipality
Location of the municipality in Puebla
Mexico
State
Puebla
Puebla de Zaragoza
Time zone
UTC-6
Central Standard Time
DST
UTC-5
Central Daylight Time
municipality
State of Puebla
Central Mexico
City of Puebla
San Andrés Cholula
Teopantlán
Tzicatlacoyan
State of Tlaxcala
World Heritage Site
Malinche
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests
holm oak
Montezuma Pine
Hartweg's Pine
Pinus teocote

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