Sotavento Region
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| |Boca del Río
| Cotaxtla
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|area_total_km2 = 3,960.69
|area_rank = 8th
|area_footnotes = {{Citation |title=Estudios Regionales Para la Planeación |url=http://ceieg.veracruz.gob.mx/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2020/12/SEFIPLAN-2020-EstudioRegionalPlaneaci%C3%B3n_Sotavento.pdf |page=15 |year=2020 |trans-title=Regional Studies for Plannings |publication-place=Xalapa |publisher=SEFIPLAN |language=es |access-date=2022-08-06}}{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=México en cifras |url=https://www.inegi.org.mx/app/areasgeograficas/?ag=30 |access-date=2022-08-06 |publisher= INEGI |language=es}}{{efn|name=inegiWarning}}
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| timezone_link = Time in Mexico
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Sotavento Region is one of the regions of Veracruz, Mexico.{{Cite web|url=http://www.conapo.gob.mx/work/models/CONAPO/indices_margina/margina2005/anexoB/mapas/b_3000.pdf|title=Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave: Grado de marginación por municipio, 2005|website=Conapo|access-date=31 January 2019}}{{Cite journal|last=López-Balderas|first=Nayali|date=7 September 2014|title=Seroprevalence of hepatitis viruses and risk factors in blood donors of Veracruz, Mexico|journal=The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries|volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=274–282 |doi=10.3855/jidc.4812|s2cid=2141145 |doi-access=free}}
Geography
Sotavento Region lies on the southern Gulf Coastal Plain. Sotavento means leeward, and the region lies in the rain shadow of the coastal Sierra de Chiconquiaco, which makes it drier than the rest of Veracruz' coastal lowlands to the north and south. The Veracruz dry forests ecoregion covers much of the region.{{WWF ecoregion |id=nt0233 |name=Veracruz dry forests|access-date=2010-11-19}}
It is bounded on the northeast by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east and south by Papaloapan Region, on the west by Mountains Region, and on the north by Capital Region.
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