Allende, Nuevo León

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Allende Municipality
Municipality
Palacio mpal allende.jpg
Allende Municipality is located in Mexico
Allende Municipality
Allende Municipality
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 25°17′N 100°01′W / 25.283°N 100.017°W / 25.283; -100.017
Country Mexico
StateNuevo León
Municipal seatAllende
Government
 • Municipal presidentPatricia Salazar
Area
 • Total186 km2 (72 sq mi)
Elevation
460 m (1,510 ft)
Population
 (2010[1])
 • Total32,581
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)

Allende Municipality is a municipality located in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It comprises a region known as Región Citrícola (Citrus Region), for being a major producer of orange at local, national and even international level. Allende is located at the Sierra Madre Oriental range foothills in the central-southeastern part in the state of Nuevo León. It has a territorial extension of 148.5 km², comprising around 0.22% of the whole extension of Nuevo León. Given its geographic location, the region consists of valleys and hills ranging from 300 meters above sea level on the northeast, to 1,640 meters above sea level in the southwestern part of the municipality. According to the last census data in 2010, it has 32,581 inhabitants, of whom 16,436 are men and 16,145 are women. The main economic activities are agriculture, livestock, beekeeping (Allende is one of the largest producers of honey in Mexico), poultry and transportation, activities that generate many jobs in the region. A sister city of Allende is Conroe, Texas.

Location[]

The municipality is located around 46.7 km. (30 miles) on the highway to Linares, southwards Monterrey. It borders the municipality of to the north and northeast, going throughout the Sierra Madre Oriental and the stream of Cerro Las Cruces. It's also bounded on the north by the municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez, having as natural boundary streams of the Lazarillos and Los Nogales, where they converge with Ramos River. [2] Allende also borders the municipality of Montemorelos to the northeast, east, southeast and south.[3]

History[]

Prior the arrival of the first Spanish settlers to the New Kingdom of León in the late sixteenth century, these lands were inhabited by a group of indigenous people of Chichimeca origin called Huachichiles, that prevented the penetration of settlers to the region called "Cuarisezapa" that stretched from the outskirts of Monterrey until Guajuco Valley in what today are the municipalities of and Allende, they were shortly expelled when the Spanish arrived.[4]

The Spanish promoted the colonization of the area and founded the Cuarisezapa Guajuco Valley, comprising an area to the Ramos river. Its first settler was Captain , grandson of the founder of Monterrey Diego de Montemayor, who received a grant from Governor in 1646 and two years later expanded it by a purchase to .[5] When he died, his widow Ines de la Garza with her children continued working on livestock, agriculture in the haciendas.[6]

General owned large estates in the vicinity of these lands by the 1700s, when he died in 1739, he desired that a part of his properties were devoted to charitable works, so in 1749 was promoted the creation of two chaplaincies that included what today are the municipalities of Allende, Cadereyta Jimenez and Montemorelos.[7]

Government[]

Municipal presidents[]

Term Municipal president Political party Notes
1939-1940[8] Baudelio E. Salazar Garza PRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
1941-1942 Ciro Tamez Lozano PRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
1943-1945 Cruz Rodríguez Cavazos PRM Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg
1946-1946 Reynaldo Marroquín Garza PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg Acting municipal president
1946-1947 Rogelio Salazar M. PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1948-1951 Hermenegildo Leal PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1952-1954 José Tamez Leal PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1955-1957 Rogelio Salazar Martínez PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1958-1960 Tobías Villalón Cavazos PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1961-1963 Rogelio Salazar Cavazos PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1964-1966 Ramón Flores Aguirre PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1967-1969 Héctor Tamez Rodríguez PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1970-1971 David Cardoso Tamez PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1972-1973 Rubén G. Cavazos Cardoso PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1974-1976 Gerardo H. Leal Silva PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1977-1979 Antonio Javier Cavazos Flores PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1980-1982 Gilberto Tamez Rodríguez PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1983-1985 Jorge Salazar Suárez PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1986-1988 Roberto Aguirre Vega PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1989-1991 Juventino Fernández González PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1991 Juan Alonso García Moya PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg Acting municipal president
1992-1994 Jorge Heriberto Salazar Salazar PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1994 Juana Aurora Cavazos C. PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg Acting municipal president
1995-1997 José Luis Rodríguez Cavazos PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
1997-2000 Ramiro Tamez Martínez PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
2000-2003 Adrián Antonio Cavazos Parra PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
2003-2006 Sergio Alejandro Alanís Marroquín PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
2006-2009 Luis Gerardo Marroquín Salazar PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
2009-2012 Jorge Alberto Salazar Salazar PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
2006-2009 Luis Gerardo Marroquín Salazar PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
2009-2012 Jorge Alberto Salazar Salazar PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
2012-2015 Jaime Salazar Marroquín PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
2015-2018 Silverio Manuel Flores Leal PAN PAN Party (Mexico).svg
2018-2021 Eva Patricia Salazar Marroquín PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
2021- Eva Patricia Salazar Marroquín PRI PRI Party (Mexico).svg
PRD PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg
She was reelected on 06/06/2021, and will start a second triennium

Tourism[]

The Ramos River attracts many visitors for its landscapes, another tourist site is El paseo de la Loma de la Santa Cruz (Loma de la Santa Cruz's walk) which offers a panoramic view from the municipal seat. Other tourist sites are the Plaza Zaragoza, in front of town Hall and Plaza Mariano Escobedo. The Parroquia de San Pedro Apóstol (Parish of St. Peter Apostle), which is a modern building on a smaller scale replica of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Museum of Anthropology, History and Culture House in the Old Temple, the shrine of Our Lady of Light at Rancho El Cerro, the Hacienda del provisor, the collection gallery of Bernardo Flores Salazar and the municipal palace.[9][10]

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Casa cultura allende.jpg Plaza zaragoza allende.jpg Templo san pedro apostol.jpg Rio ramos.jpg

Museums

The ancient temple of San Pedro Apostol, is now a museum that houses the history and culture of the municipality, along with antiquities of items and depictions of life-style of the town.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (2010). "Principales resultados por localidad 2010 (ITER)".
  2. ^ Juan Guillermo Ordóñez (2007). Región citrícola de Nuevo León. Fondo Editorial de NL. p. 47. ISBN 9709715313.
  3. ^ Lilia Alanís García (2006). Allende, Crónicas municipales del estado de Nuevo León. Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León. p. 215. ISBN 968-5724-54-7.
  4. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 211.
  5. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 211.
  6. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 211.
  7. ^ Allende, Nuevo León: inventario de un pueblo, Monterrey, Nuevo León, CA: Gobierno del Estado de Nuevo León, Secretaría de Administración, Dirección de Acción Cívica y Editorial, 1994, ISBN 978-968621192-4
  8. ^ "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Nuevo León. Allende" (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  9. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 216.
  10. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 217.
  11. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 216.

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