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JALAPA, XALAPA, or HALAPA

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 131 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
JALAPA, XALAPA, or HALAPA , a city of the state of
Vera
  Cruz,
Mexico
 , 70 M. by rail N.W. of the port of
Vera
  Cruz. Pop. (1900), 20,388. It is picturesquely situated on the slopes of the sierra which separates the central
plateau
  from the tierra caliente of the Gulf
Coast
 , at an
elevation
  of 4300 ft., and with the Cofre de Perote behind it rising to a height of 13,419 ft. Its climate is cool and healthy and the town is frequented in the hot season by the wealthier residents of Vera Cruz. The city is well built, in the old Spanish style. Among its public buildings are a fine old church, a Franciscan convent founded by Cortez in 1556, and three hospitals, one of which, that of San Juan de Dios,
dates
  from colonial times. The neighbouring valleys and slopes are fertile, and in the forests of this region is found the plant (jalap), which takes its name from the place. Jalapa was for a time the
capital
  of the state, but its political and commercial importance has declined since the opening of the railway between Vera Cruz and the city of
Mexico
 . It manufactures pottery and leather.


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