in full Jalapa Enríquez
City (pop., 2000: 373,076), capital of Veracruz state, east-central Mexico.
It is located in the Sierra Madre Oriental about 4,700 ft (1,430 m) above sea level. A market city for locally grown coffee and tobacco, it was famous in colonial days for its annual fair, held to dispose of the goods brought from Cádiz , Spain, by the returning Spanish silver fleet. The massive Spanish-Moorish architecture of the city is reminiscent of viceregal days.