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Allende, Nuevo León

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Allende Municipality
Municipality
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 presidentEduardo Leal Buenfil
Area
 • Total186 km2 (72 sq mi)
Elevation
460 m (1,510 ft)
Population
 (2020 census)[1][2]
 • Total35,289
 • Density190/km2 (490/sq mi)
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 2010 census data, it had a population of 32,581, of whom 16,436 were men and 16,145 were 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.

Geography

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The municipality is located around 46.7 km. (30 miles) on the highway to Linares, southwards Monterrey. It borders the municipality of Santiago 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. [3] Allende also borders the municipality of Montemorelos to the northeast, east, southeast and south.[4]

History

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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 Santiago and Allende, they were shortly expelled when the Spanish arrived.[5]

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 Diego Rodriguez de Montemayor, grandson of the founder of Monterrey Diego de Montemayor, who received a grant from Governor Martin de Zavala in 1646 and two years later expanded it by a purchase to Diego Fernandez de Montemayor.[6] When he died, his widow Ines de la Garza with her children continued working on livestock, agriculture in the haciendas.[7]

General Luis Garcia de Pruneda 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.[8]

Government

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Municipal presidents

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Term Municipal president[9][10] Political party Notes
1939-1940 Baudelio E. Salazar Garza PRM
1941-1942 Ciro Tamez Lozano PRM
1943-1945 Cruz Rodríguez Cavazos PRM
1946-1946 Reynaldo Marroquín Garza PRI Acting municipal president
1946-1947 Rogelio Salazar M. PRI
1948-1951 Hermenegildo Leal PRI
1952-1954 José Tamez Leal PRI
1955-1957 Rogelio Salazar Martínez PRI
1958-1960 Tobías Villalón Cavazos PRI
1961-1963 Rogelio Salazar Cavazos PRI
1964-1966 Ramón Flores Aguirre PRI
1967-1969 Héctor Tamez Rodríguez PRI
1970-1971 David Cardoso Tamez PRI
1972-1973 Rubén G. Cavazos Cardoso PRI
1974-1976 Gerardo H. Leal Silva PRI
1977-1979 Antonio Javier Cavazos Flores PRI
1980-1982 Gilberto Tamez Rodríguez PRI
1983-1985 Jorge Salazar Suárez PRI
1986-1988 Roberto Aguirre Vega PRI
1989-1991 Juventino Fernández González PRI
1991 Juan Alonso García Moya PRI Acting municipal president
1992-1994 Jorge Heriberto Salazar Salazar PRI
1994 Juana Aurora Cavazos C. PRI Acting municipal president
1995-1997 José Luis Rodríguez Cavazos PRI
1997-2000 Ramiro Tamez Martínez PRI
2000-2003 Adrián Antonio Cavazos Parra PRI
2003-2006 Sergio Alejandro Alanís Marroquín PRI
2006-2009 Luis Gerardo Marroquín Salazar PRI
2009-2012 Jorge Alberto Salazar Salazar PRI
2006-2009 Luis Gerardo Marroquín Salazar PRI
2009-2012 Jorge Alberto Salazar Salazar PRI
2012-2015 Jaime Salazar Marroquín PRI
2015-2018 Silverio Manuel Flores Leal PAN
2018-2021 Eva Patricia Salazar Marroquín PRI
2021-2024 Eva Patricia Salazar Marroquín[11] PRI
PRD
She was reelected on 06/06/2021
2024- Eduardo Leal Buenfil[12] PAN

Tourism

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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.[13][14]

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.[15]

References

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  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (2010). "Principales resultados por localidad 2010 (ITER)".
  2. ^ Citypopulation.de
  3. ^ Juan Guillermo Ordóñez (2007). Región citrícola de Nuevo León. Fondo Editorial de NL. p. 47. ISBN 9709715313.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 211.
  6. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 211.
  7. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 211.
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Nuevo León. Allende" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  10. ^ "National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development (Inafed). On the left column, please click on "Información Histórica". Then, from the drop-down menu, select "Presidentes Municipales". Search for the state or federal entity and then the desired municipality. Nuevo León. Allende" (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  11. ^ "Cómputos 2021 Elecciones Estatales de Nuevo León. Ayuntamientos. Municipio 004, Allende. PRI-PRD: 5995 votos. PAN: 3417 votos. MC: 1251 votos. Redes Sociales Progresistas (RSP): 1181 votos. PVEM-PT-Morena-Panal: 1128 votos" (in Spanish). Instituto Estatal Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana (IEEPC) Nuevo León. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  12. ^ "Instituto Estatal Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana (IEEPC). Programa de Resultados Electorales Preliminares 2024. Elecciones Estatales de Nuevo León. Ayuntamientos. Municipio 004 Allende" (in Spanish). Instituto Estatal Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana (IEEPC) Nuevo León. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  13. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 216.
  14. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 217.
  15. ^ Alanís (2006), p. 216.
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