Perote is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

[1] Perote borders the municipalitys of Las Vigas de Ramírez, Acajete, Xico and Tlalnelhuayocan, and the state of Puebla.

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

This town is the home of a sizable Spanish community which immigrated here in the 1930s.

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