Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román
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The municipality of Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román is located in the southwestern portion of the Mexican state of Zacatecas. The average elevation of the municipality is 2,460 meters above sea level and the municipality covers an area of 747.082 square kilometers. The municipality lies in a valley bordered by the Sierra de Morones and lies on the banks of the Tlaltenango River, which runs north and is a tributary of the Bolaños River.
The municipality is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Momax and General Joaquin Amaro, to east by the municipalities of Huanusco and Jalpa, to the south by the municipalities of municipality of Tepechitlán and to the west by the municipality of Atolinga.
[edit] Population
According to the 2000 Census, the municipality of Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román had a population of 23,456 inhabitants. Of these, 14,136 lived in the municipal seat and the remainder lived in surrounding rural communities. In 2000, there were 7,223 economically active individuals in the municipality. The largest sector of employment was agriculture in husbandy, which employed 19.1% of the economically active population, followed by wholesale and retail, which employed 16.8% and manufacturing, which employed 11.9%.
[edit] History
Tlaltenango was originally an indigenous settlement inhabited by caxcan farmers. Upon the arrival of the Spanish to the area in 1530, the population of the town and surrounding valley was approximately 16,000. The area was placed under the rule of the Intendancy of Nueva Galicia.
With the first Spaniards came Franciscan missionaries who Christianized the local indigenous population. The first Spaniard given an "encomienda" of the local indigenous population was Toribio de Bolaños, who named the town Nuestra Señora de la Asunción del Valle de Tlaltenango in 1542.
Among the first Spanish families to populate the town at the end of the 1500s were the Ortiz de San Pedro and Haro de Miramontes.
The local indigenous population was the main supply of labor for the salt mines in Santa Maria y El Peñol Blanco in the early 1600s.
[edit] Sources
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Zacatecas, State of Zacatecas [1]
- Insituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática [2]
