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Allende is located at the Sierra Madre Oriental range foothills in the central-southeastern part in the state of Nuevo León. It has a territorial extension of 148.5 km 2, comprising around 0.22% of the whole extension of Nuevo León. Given its geographic location, the region consists of valleys and hills ranging from 300 meters above sea level ...
Alberto del Canto founds the village of Santa Lucía, (now Monterrey). 31 May 1579 Philip II of Spain orders the establishment of a new kingdom in the Americas. 1581 Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva founds the Nuevo Reino de León (New Kingdom of León). 15 December 1777 Pope Pius VI creates the episcopate of Nuevo León in the bull Relata semper.
Decades of the New World (Latin: De orbe novo decades; Spanish: Décadas del nuevo mundo), by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, is a collection of eight narrative tracts recounting early Spanish exploration, conquest and colonization of the New World, exploration of the Pacific, and related miscellany. The first four of these tracts were first published ...
Historia de Nuevo León by Israel Cavazos; Raúl Cadena, "Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva", rcadena.net (in Spanish) Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "Carvajal y de la Cueva, Luis de"; accessed 17 August 2007. David B. Green, David B. Green, "This Day in Jewish History 1596: A Jewish Family Burns at the Stake in Mexico City"; accessed 8 December 2015.
Map of Mexico with Nuevo León highlighted. Nuevo León is a state in Northeast Mexico that is divided into 51 municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the seventh most populated state with 5,784,442 inhabitants and the 13th largest by land area spanning 64,156.2 square kilometres (24,770.8 sq mi). [1] [2]
It was founded in 1582 by Spanish and Portuguese settlers when Philip II, King of Spain and its colonies, encouraged the colonization of Northern New Spain, and authorized the creation of a 'realm' which would have the name of Nuevo Reyno de León (New Kingdom of León), after the former Kingdom of León in Spain.
Rayones marks the beginning of the Zona Ixtlera, the southernmost region of the state of Nuevo León. Access to Rayones is difficult. The main highway, coming from Montemorelos, is a challenge for most drivers. The unpaved highway coming from Galeana is even more risky, as it is a two-way road where only one vehicle fits; it is rocky, lined by ...
The Birth of the New World (Spanish: Nacimiento del Nuevo Mundo, colloquially known as La Estatua de Colón, lit. Columbus' Statue ) is a 360 foot (110 m) bronze sculpture located on the Atlantic coastline of Arecibo, Puerto Rico .