Municipio El Salto

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El Salto
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Jalisco
Seat El Salto
surface 87.9 km²
Residents 138,226 (2010)
density 1,571.8 inhabitants per km²
founding 1943
Website www.elsalto.gob.mx/elsalto/
INEGI no. 14070
politics
Presidente municipal Marcos Godínez Montes

Coordinates: 20 ° 31 ′  N , 103 ° 12 ′  W

El Salto is a municipality in the Mexican state of Jalisco , which extends over 41.5 km² and is around 1,500 meters above sea ​​level . At the last survey it had 138,226 inhabitants ( 2010 census ).

The administrative seat of the municipality is El Salto of the same name, while Las Pintitas is the most populous place .

location

El Salto is located in the state of Jalisco , around 20 km southeast of the center of Guadalajara , the capital of the state . El Salto borders the municipalities of Tlaquepaque , Tonalá , Tlajomulco de Zúñiga and Juanacatlán .

history

At first there was only the hacienda Jesús María with its settlers, José María Bermejillo and his wife Dolores Negrete in the area of ​​today's municipality .

A sugar mill was opened around 1818. In the course of the 19th century, some factories followed, which changed the character of the area and created a settlement.

An electricity company opened in 1893 used the twenty meter high and one and a half meter wide waterfall (El Salto), which gave the settlement its name.

Three years later, on May 17, 1896, the Compañía Industrial Manufacturera, SA spinning mill was opened with French capital .

On October 27, 1901, a bridge was opened over the Río Grande de Santiago , through which El Salto was connected to the then municipal seat of Juanacatlán. Because until 1943 the then El Salto de Juanacatlán was still part of today's neighboring municipality Juanacatlán and was only raised to the rank of an independent municipality with the decree number 4927 published on December 25, 1943, which from then on bore the name El Salto .

In 1985 Honda de México SA de CV opened its headquarters in El Salto.

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