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| Córdoba, city, Mexico |
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(kôr´d vä), city (1990 pop. 130,695), Veracruz state, E central Mexico. It is the commercial and processing center of a fertile coffee, sugarcane, and tropical fruit region. Sugar milling is the chief industry. The city is also a popular tourist spot. Córdoba was founded in 1617. The Spanish viceroy O’Donojú and the Mexican revolutionary Agustín de Iturbide signed a treaty there in 1821 that established Mexico’s independence. The city suffered extensive damage in 1973 from an earthquake. |
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