Cadereyta Jiménez

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Cadereyta Jiménez is the name of a city as well as a municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León.

The municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez is located in the central part of the state, 360 meters above sea level, at 25' 36" N latitude and 100' 00" W longitude. The municipality has a territorial extension of 1,004.4 km² (387.8 sq mi). Its borders are with the following municipalities, all in the state of Nuevo León: To the north, Juárez and Pesquería; to the south, Allende, Montemorelos and General Terán; to the east, General Terán and Los Ramones; to the west, Juárez and Santiago.

The city of Cadereyta Jiménez, which is the municipality seat, is the main population center, with a 2005 census population of 56,552, the ninth-largest city in the state. However, within the municipality there are numerous other villages, the largest of which are: San Juan, Pueblo Nuevo, Cereso Cadereyta, Atongo de Abajo and Palmitos. The municipality had an official population of 73,746, also the ninth-largest in the state.

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[edit] Tourism

The Church of San Juan Bautista (Saint John Baptist) was completed in 1788; it is Spanish Sevillan kind.

On April 5, 1998 were discovered accidentally the grottos “El Mezcal” by Pablo Carrizales Gomes and Rodrigo Gomez, initially discovered a grotto with a depth of 20 to 30 meters. Later Rodrigo Gomez and Mario Hidalgo de Leon discovered a second grotto witch approximately 50 meters of the ground where is possible to walk freely. Within of the grottos there are stalagmites and stalactites formations.

[edit] Historical Review of the Foundation of Cadereyta Jiménez

In 1692, due a great flooding, the town was relocated on the left side of Santa Catarina river, 4.5 kilometers from its original location. In 1762 authorities and neighbors requests to Gubernator Carlos de Velasco permission to move in the right side of the river, because there were undergoing the ravages of a drought since 10 years ago, and the accidental terrain, obstruct them to move water from the river until the housings. This move to the new site occurred on February 1763. On March 28, 1825, the State Congress, due a request of Gubernator Antonio Rodriguez Leal gave it the category of city with the name Cadereyta Jimenez. Its original name was in honor to the sixteenth virrey of the New Spain, don Lope Diaz de Armendariz, marquis of Cadereyta, and General Mariano Jimenez precursor of the Independence of Nuevo Reino de Leon. The jurisdiction of the village San Juan Bautista de Cadereyta, starting since 1638, was very extensive, Gubernator Zavala mark it from the west part until Tampico port. This enormous territory endure until 1742, year which orders the foundation of Nuevo Santander (Tamaulipas), colony habited in great part from people originally of Cadereyta.

[edit] Illustrious People

  • José Gerónmo Treviño Leal. Military. Gubernator. Participated in the Mexican War against France (1835-1914).
  • Federico Cantú Garza. Painter. Muralist (1908-1989).
  • María Luisa Garza Garza. Writer. Poetess (1887-1981).
  • Agapito García Dávila. Gubernator (1812-1890).
  • José María Mier. War and Navy Sub secretary. Gubernator of Nuevo León and Jalisco (1847-1914)
  • José Antonio Rodríguez Leal. Gubernator (1768-1846).
  • José Guadalupe Galván Galindo. Bishop diocese of Valles City, San Luis Potosí.
  • Doctor H. C. Abelardo Leal. Self-taught. First doctorate in Honoris Causa named by Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (1899-1982)
  • Apolinar Nuñez de León. Historian. Writer. (1908-1979).
  • Carlos Villarreal Arrambide. Historian. Writer. (1893-1976).
  • Edelmiro Cantú Sada. Municipal President (1948). During his exercise was recovered the certificate of foundation of Cadereyta, dated and signed by Gubernator Martín de Zavala on February 25th 1638. Gives the honor for Cadereyta to be the only town of Nuevo Leon it has in its historical patrimony, the original letter of foundation.
  • Eugenio Serrano García. Precursor of the Broom Industry in 1893 (1850-1911).
  • Gilberto Lozano García. Military, Surgeon. Central Militar Hospital Director. Medical Militar Study Principal. (1907).
  • Joaquín Garza Leal. Military. Participated in Reform War. Fought against the French army. (1832-1867).

[edit] Chronology

  • 1637: Foundation of the Village of Cadereyta Village, August 13th.
  • 1638: On a visit to the Village of Cadereyta, then Governor Zavala grants it territorial jurisdiction as far east as the port ofTampico. On February 25th, the Governor orders his clerk to redact the certificate of foundation, this document disappear from municipal records and years after was found by historian Angel Mario Rocha Leal in the foreign, success its rescue and reintegrate it to historical patrimony in 1996.
  • 1692: The Village of Cadereyta Village is relocated to the left bank of the Santa Catarina River.
  • 1762: In view of the ravage drought since 1755, authorities and neighbors requested to Gubernator to move in the right side of river, because the rustic terrain and lack of water for human and animal consume.
  • 1763: In February, exodus of the population begins to the present location of the city.
  • 1825: May 28th, the State Congress decrees the category of

city to the Village of Cadereyta.

  • 1889: Delivery the construction of the south tower for the Church San Juan Bautista, where is collocated the public clock buying by the town in 1872
  • 1892: Mister Don Eugenio Serrano García, installs in this city the first factory of brooms called “La Aldeana”.
  • 1917: An epidemic of Spanish fever flog the city killing 250 people.
  • 1945: Cadereyta City is knows as the Capital Broom of Mexico
  • 1973: Begins construction of PEMEX refinery “Ing. Héctor R. Lara Sosa” the biggest of Latin America.
  • 2005: On the night of October 13th to 14th, a waterspout leaves a big flooding in the city, leaving the larger part of the downtown under water, 1500 families affected and infrastructure damaged, affecting also the municipalities Allende, Apodaca, Ciénega de Flores, Guadalupe, Juárez, Montemorelos, Pesquería, San Nicolás de los Garza, San Pedro Garza García, Santa Catarina, Santiago y Marín."

[edit] Government

Nowadays Edelmiro Cantú Sada is the municipal president (mayor, second mandate). (National Action Party (Mexico)).

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[edit] References

  • Nuevo León Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

[edit] External links

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The initial language of this article was Spanish.