Possible Clues:

• Major Mexican port
• City named by Cortés
• City and state in east central Mexico
• Mexican city
• City and state in east-central Mexico
• 1954 film starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster
• Mexican state which contains the port city of Boca del Rio
• Mexican state, capital Xalapa-Enríquez
• Port of Eastern Mexico
• The translation of the name of this Mexican state is 'True Cross'