Zongolica is a city and its surrounding municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

The climate is cold-humid, with an average temperature of 17.4 °C, with rains in summer and autumn.

Zongolica is home to the Ixcohuapa people, who are known for cooking and consuming larvae of Arsenura armida.

XEZON-AM, an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish and Nahuatl, is based in Zongolica.

The municipality of Zongolica is bordered to the north by Tequila and Omealca, to the east by Tezonapa, to the south by the state of Puebla and to the west by Los Reyes.