Huejutla de Reyes is a city and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico.
The name comes from the Nahuatl huexotl ("willow") and tlan ("place"),[1] while "de Reyes" commemorates local cobbler Antonio Reyes Cabrera who died defending Huejutla from French invaders in 1866.
[2] The municipality covers an area of 377.8 km2 in the northeast of Hidalgo, in the Huasteca region, on the border with the state of Veracruz.
Around 73,200 people speak indigenous languages, primarily Huasteca Nahuatl.
Annual precipitation is 1,463.7 millimetres (57.626 in); July and September being the wettest months.