The municipality is crossed by the Río San Pedro and there is often extensive flooding in the rainy season.
Tuxpan during prehispanic times was an important place named Ayutuxpan, contributed to the kingdom of Sentispac.
It also embraces megalithic composes of big carving blocks, organized horizontally and vertically combined with voluminous rocks.
Leaders; Antonio R. Laureles and Prisciliano Góngora, they fought for the land divisions and formations of cooperatives in Tuxpan and the State of Nayarit.
They were murdered in 1922, at the back stalls inside the Government Palace, today known as Casa Fenelón 1530.- Military explorations of conquistador Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán crossed by the zone towards Aztlán.