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Gómez Palacio
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| Country | Mexico |
| State | Durango |
| Municipality | Gómez Palacio |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 328,159 |
| • Density | 389.5/km2 (1,008.8/sq mi) |
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Gómez Palacio is a city and its surrounding municipality in northeastern Durango, Mexico, located at 25°33′40″N 103°29′54"W adjacent to the border with the state of Coahuila. The city is named in honor of former Durango governor Francisco Gómez Palacio y Bravo.
In the 2005 census the population of the city of Gómez Palacio was 239,842 people, making it the state's second-largest community. The municipality's population was 304,515. The municipality's area is 990.2 km² (382.3 sq mi). The municipality and city are part of a large metropolitan area which includes the municipalities of Torreón and Matamoros in Coahuila, as well as Lerdo in Durango. The metropolitan area had an official population of 1,110,890 persons in 2005.
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The history of the city dates back to the old hacienda Santa Rosa, founded on August 30 of 1840, by Juan Ignacio Giménez, Rafael Mendrichaga, Joaquín Iturribarria, Pedro Medieta and Irramendí Julian, the old farm was located down the hill and along the "Santa Rosa" known today as the hill of "country or" star "
Their fields reaching to the boundaries of what the old farm, a necessary step to the lines that made the voyage from Saltillo to the people of Nazas, cotton cultivation reached the hacienda by Juan Flores and Mayor Nepomeceno brought an ingenious system of dams that held the waters of the river Nazas.
One of the most important was the residence of then President Benito Juárez with collaborators Guillermo Prieto, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada and Jose Maria Iglesias, who arrived on September 2 of 1864. The Hero of the Americas organized the army of the West a few days later, resuming his trip to Mapimí, then the September 15 gives a shout on the ranch historical Mapimí and another made when the Santa Rosa was the site of secret meetings for the movement of the Mexican Revolution which states that the same November 20 out of the rubble 40 men led by [[Agustín Castro] ] to take up arms against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
The June 25, 1887 was formed legally society that gave rise to The Soap, considered the most important industry. Another company was the spinning and weaving "Friendship" that received the donation of land to set up this factory. Another was "The Union" shoe factory that deserved that name, and not only installed in the Laguna, but as the Number 1 in shoe factory that competed with European imported or the United States on their marks premium.
Then left industries like "flour mill", the brilliant industry Lords "Smith", who had a stone mill with a capacity of producing 25 sacks of flour a day by 1903 was raised to 350 sacks, which was next Film Rome.
The founding of the city, Santiago Lavin Cuadra, yielded to the Mexican Central Railway Company the land required for the company lifted the Roundhouse and workshops, in order to extend the routes of the courts of an entire railroad terminal. It was not until 1907, when the American company moved to Gomez Palacio in facilities that had Jimulco and at the same time, settled in terminal passenger trains and freight. Came to work over time, about 2,000 workers in all specialties. At the exit and entrance to the turn of the Roundhouse, a wave of men in blue overalls, flooded the streets near the armory.
The trains were operated by U.S. personnel. They said that many of these workers, fraternised soon with their Mexican counterparts in positions that were lower and gradually by training in the jobs they performed. Mexican workers were occupying vacancies left by the Americans and before the year 1910, and there were none of them working.
The city became a major railroad center of the largest in the country, pushing the development already booming. On the outbreak of the revolutionary struggle and closed many industries and businesses, the lives of its inhabitants were critical, especially those who only had their arms to rent in any job. But for many years the railroad was the mainstay of the economy of Gomez Palacio. For some time the Roundhouse, workshops and terminals were changed to Torreon, Coahuila, leaving only here the memory of what it was that railroad center where up to date number of rail workers and retirees.
Received great impetus activities industrial in the region with the installation of the power plant Francke in 1930 which gave a great impetus to the industrialization.
The first agricultural strike in the region occurred on June 11 of 1935 in the Hacienda of Manila, which resulted in multiplier effects in the rest of the estates, which resulted in the issuance of the decree of [ [October 6]] of 1936 by which the General Lázaro Cárdenas initiated the distribution of land to laborers throughout the Comarca Lagunera.
Being the busiest in the region and state, contributing nearly 45% of GDP for that along with the Ciudad Lerdo, over 55% with Laguna Region of Durango. They are currently in Gómez Palacio several industrial parks which are: Park Gómez Palacio Americas only one company has installed, the Harrier Industrial Park with 588 companies located, and the Zone of International Connectivity Laguna where you are installing a Custom Interior, Inspector Campus, Puerto Seco.
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