High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rafael Delgado is a municipality located in the montane central zone of the State of Veracruz, about 140 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 39.48 km2. In 1831 the village of San Juan of the Rio constituted a municipality. Into Decree of November 5, 1932 the municipality of San Juan of the Rio and the head-board they change its name to that of Rafael Delgado, in honor of the notable writer native of Cordoba. The municipality of Rafael Delgado is delimited to the north by Orizaba and Ixmatlahuacan to the east by Ixtaczoquitlán, to the south by San Andrés Tenejapan, Tlilapan and Nogales and to the west by Río Blanco. It is watered by the Río Blanco river.