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Jalapa (or Xalapa)| City in Mexico and administrative capital of the state of Veracruz; population (2005) 545,600. Situated in the mountains in the west of the state at an altitude of 1,400 m/4,593 ft, the city lies 130 km/81 mi from the port of Veracruz on the Interoceanico railway to Mexico City. Coffee is grown here as well as a variety of other crops. Jalapa Enríquez is an agricultural, commercial, and industrial centre. |
Features The climate is temperate with rainfall spread over most of the year. The University of Veracruz is located here, and the city has an anthropological museum largely devoted to the ancient Totonac, Almec, and Huastec cultures of Mexico. Jalapa Enríquez is sometimes known as the ‘City of Flowers’. Exogonium purga, a plant whose dried roots are used to make the medical purgative known as jalap, grows here. |
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| PUERTO DE LIVERPOOL, a Mexican department-store chain, will invest US$120 million building four new retail outlets in Jalapa, Coatzacoalcos, Colima and Mexico City. The battle spot couldn't be more significant: it was in the state of Veracruz, just west of Jalapa, Santa Anna's alleged hometown, and equally important, it was en route to Mexico City, along el Camino National that Cortes and his men cut over two centuries earlier. The "artistic" point is made explicitly in a number of Homages to Franz Kline (notably Jalapa 66, 1974, on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery, or Lima 59, 1975, at Robert Mann), photos of graffiti-like scrawls that bear an uncanny resemblance to the painter's canvases, with their chance drips, broad handling, and quirky tensions of black and white. |