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Pueblo Viejo is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located in the state's Huasteca Alta region. The municipal seat is the city of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc .
Pueblo Viejo was the first gold deposit exploited by the Spaniards in America. [14]The mine was operated by state-owned mining company Rosario Dominicana, S. A., from 1975 until 1991 when mining became economically unfeasible and a contaminated site with acid rock drainage was left behind. [15]
The city was built up around the fortress and the gold mine of Pueblo Viejo, as the extraction of precious metals was the main objective of Columbus' missions to the new world. [2] The town was destroyed by an earthquake on December 2, 1562, and the survivors moved to the present site on the banks of the Camú River .
Pueblo Viejo (Spanish, 'Old Town') may refer to the following places: Pueblo Viejo, Salta, Argentina; Pueblo Viejo, Belize, a municipality in Belize;
The town that is now known as Pueblo Viejo was the place where in 1504 Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, the conqueror of Cuba, founded the colonial town of Azua de Compostela. It was named in honour of one of the first Spanish settlers in the area, Don Pedro Gallego, a native of Santiago de Compostela , in Galicia, Spain.
Location in Mexico. ... It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding Pueblo Viejo Municipality. The name honours Cuauhtémoc (c. 1502–1525), ...
Pueblo Viejo (Spanish, 'old village') is a small village in the Iruya Department in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina. It is located near the village Iruya [ 1 ] and is connected through dirt road Ruta Provincial 165-S with Campo Carreras , which is a locality of the village Rodeo Colanzulí .
In 1915, the city received the name of a cultured city due to its art and culture. In the place of the ruins of the first city, there is an archaeological park and a museum, the Pueblo Viejo National Park. Over the years, a town called Pueblo Viejo emerged in honor of being the first place where the city existed. [9] [10]