Nogales (Veracruz)
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Coordinates: 18 ° 49 ′ N , 97 ° 10 ′ W Nogales on the map of Veracruz
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Veracruz | |
| Municipio | Nogales | |
| Residents | 22,085 (2010) | |
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| height | 1280 m | |
| prefix | 272 | |
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Nogales is a city in the Altas Montañas region in the Mexican state of Veracruz . The city has about 22,000 inhabitants and is 1280 m above sea level. M. It is located on the route of the historic Camino Real , which connected the Mexican capital with the then most important Mexican port city of Veracruz .
Nogales is the administrative seat of the Municipio Nogales .
Surname
Originally the place was called Oztoticpac , which means something like in the cave , on the cave , near the cave or above the cave and should be an allusion to the local Cañón de la Carbonera with its gorges and tunnels. Its current name is the Spanish word for 'nut trees', which were abundant in the municipality in earlier times.
history
In 1450 the place fell under Aktekian rule.
In 1524, Hernán Cortés recognized the fertility of the local valley of Orizaba and commissioned the Spanish soldier Ojedo el Tuerto, who was involved in the conquest of Mexico , to cultivate sugar . According to tradition, Tuerto opened the factory of San Juan Bautista Nogales , probably the first sugar factory on the American continent .
In 1721 the community was constituted as the " República de Indios ".
During the Mexican War of Independence , General José María Morelos came to the city with his more than ten thousand independence fighters on October 28, 1812, spent the night there and on the next day attacked the royalist troops stationed in Orizaba from nearby Cerro del Borrego , whom he painfully attacked Inflicted defeat.
During the French intervention , General Ignacio Zaragoza and his troops came to the city in June 1862 and prepared to fight the French troops stationed in neighboring Orizaba.
In 1882 the textile factory San Lorenzo was founded in Nogales , whose workers, together with those from the neighboring textile factories in Río Blanco and Santa Rosa, fought against the exploitation by the French factory owners. The uprising was brutally suppressed when, on January 7, 1907, under the orders of authoritarian President Porfirio Díaz, the military used firearms and several workers were killed in Río Blanco and Nogales.
In 1933, apart from the Cervecería Moctezuma located in neighboring Orizaba, the only brewery in the state of Veracruz was established in Nogales . It operated temporarily as Cervecería Nogales and as Cervecería Orizaba and brewed a beer called Azteca . After it was taken over in 1945 by the beer giant Cervecería Cuauhtémoc from Monterrey , it got its name. After the merger of the large breweries Cuauhtémoc and Moctezuma to form Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma in 1988, the brewery in Nogales was closed and its production relocated to Orizaba.
The village of Nogales was raised to the rank of a small town ( villa ) in 1910 and in 1971 it was given city rights (it was classified as a ciudad ).
Worth seeing
The most important buildings in the city are the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista and the Templo de San Pedro de Maltrata .
Another attraction is the Laguna de Nogales .
Web links
- Official website of the municipality (Spanish)
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Nogales (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Catálogo de Localidades
- ↑ Nogales at PueblosAmerica.com (Spanish; accessed January 9, 2014)
- ↑ Historia del Municipio de Nogales Veracruz (Spanish; article from October 3, 2011)
- ↑ Firman permisos para venta de ex fábrica de Nogales (Spanish; accessed January 9, 2014)