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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.
Nuevo León, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León, [b] is a state in northeastern Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas , Coahuila , Zacatecas , and San Luis Potosi , and has an extremely narrow international border with the U.S. state of Texas .
Apodaca, Nuevo León 44 Nuevo Laredo massacres: April 17 - May 4, 2012 Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas 37 Various massacres between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas having a turf war 2012 Boca del Río murder of journalists: May 6, 2012 Boca Del Río, Veracruz: 4 Cadereyta Jiménez massacre: May 13, 2012 Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León 49
Montemayor is credited with the founding of Monterrey, the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, on September 20, 1596.The establishment was officially called Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey ("Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey," partly to curry favor from the Viceroy of the time, the Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey.
Born in the Azores in 1547, Captain Alberto del Canto was commissioned by Martin Lopez de Ibarra to make settlements in name of New Vizcaya.Del Canto in 1577 the town of Santiago del Saltillo Minas de la Trinidad (), Minas de San Gregorio and villa de Santa Lucia at the Extremadura Valley and practically just marked a place called Santa Lucia on which today is the center of modern-day Monterrey.
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.
The Casa de Allende (Allende House) museum was the home of Ignacio Allende, who was a principal figure in the early part of the Mexican War of Independence. The structure was built in 1759 with Baroque and Neoclassical elements, located next to the San Miguel parish church. [ 36 ]