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 presidentPatricia Salazar
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. A sister city of Allende is Conroe, Texas.

Geography

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

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

Municipal presidents

Term Municipal president Political party Notes
1939-1940[9]Baudelio E. Salazar GarzaPRM
1941-1942Ciro Tamez LozanoPRM
1943-1945Cruz Rodríguez CavazosPRM
1946-1946Reynaldo Marroquín GarzaPRI Acting municipal president
1946-1947Rogelio Salazar M.PRI
1948-1951Hermenegildo LealPRI
1952-1954José Tamez LealPRI
1955-1957Rogelio Salazar MartínezPRI
1958-1960Tobías Villalón CavazosPRI
1961-1963Rogelio Salazar CavazosPRI
1964-1966Ramón Flores AguirrePRI
1967-1969Héctor Tamez RodríguezPRI
1970-1971David Cardoso TamezPRI
1972-1973Rubén G. Cavazos CardosoPRI
1974-1976Gerardo H. Leal SilvaPRI
1977-1979Antonio Javier Cavazos FloresPRI
1980-1982Gilberto Tamez RodríguezPRI
1983-1985Jorge Salazar SuárezPRI
1986-1988Roberto Aguirre VegaPRI
1989-1991Juventino Fernández GonzálezPRI
1991Juan Alonso García MoyaPRI Acting municipal president
1992-1994Jorge Heriberto Salazar SalazarPRI
1994Juana Aurora Cavazos C.PRI Acting municipal president
1995-1997José Luis Rodríguez CavazosPRI
1997-2000Ramiro Tamez MartínezPRI
2000-2003Adrián Antonio Cavazos ParraPRI
2003-2006Sergio Alejandro Alanís MarroquínPRI
2006-2009Luis Gerardo Marroquín SalazarPRI
2009-2012Jorge Alberto Salazar SalazarPRI
2006-2009Luis Gerardo Marroquín SalazarPRI
2009-2012Jorge Alberto Salazar SalazarPRI
2012-2015Jaime Salazar MarroquínPRI
2015-2018Silverio Manuel Flores LealPAN
2018-2021Eva Patricia Salazar MarroquínPRI
2021-Eva Patricia Salazar Marroquín[10]PRI
PRD 		She was reelected on 06/06/2021

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.[11][12]

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.[13]

References

  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. ↑ "Programa de Resultados Electorales Preliminares 2021 Elecciones Estatales de Nuevo León. Ayuntamientos. Municipio 004, Allende. PRI-PRD: 5954 votos. PAN: 3302 votos. MC: 1186 votos. Redes Sociales Progresistas (RSP): 1130 votos. PVEM-PT-Morena-Panal: 1099 votos" (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  11. ↑ Alanís (2006), p. 216.
  12. ↑ Alanís (2006), p. 217.
  13. ↑ Alanís (2006), p. 216.
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