Perote is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city serves as the seat of government for the surrounding municipality of the same name, with a population 42,451 inhabitants as 2020, while the municipality population is of 77,432.^[1] Perote borders the municipalitys of Las Vigas de Ramírez, Acajete, Xico and Tlalnelhuayocan, and the state of Puebla. It is on Federal Highway 140.

Perote
City and municipality
Top: Perote Municipal Hall; Middle: San Antonio Limón Church, San Carlos Fortress; Bottom: Cofre de Perote, Calvario Church
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 19°33′43″N 97°14′31″W / 19.56194°N 97.24194°W / 19.56194; -97.24194
Country	Mexico
State	Veracruz
Region	Capital Region
Government
• Mayor	Delfino Ortega Martínez (PRI)
Area
• Municipality	614.7 km2 (237.3 sq mi)
Elevation (of seat)	2,425 m (7,956 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Municipality	77,432
• Seat	42,451
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (US Central))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central)
Postal code (of seat)	30128
Climate	ET
Website	(in Spanish)

Its climate is cold and dry with an annual average temperature of 12 degrees Celsius.

Perote's fortress of San Carlos once served as a prison. Guadalupe Victoria died there.

Also in Perote is the Cofre de Perote shield-shaped volcano (the Nahuatl name of which was "Naucampatepetl," which means "four times lord").

This town is the home of a sizable Spanish community which immigrated here in the 1930s. Because of this, it is known for Spanish-style cured meats and sausage such as jamón serrano (serrano ham), botifarra (Catalán sausage), and Spanish chorizo sausage.^[2]