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El Corte River (in Spanish Río El Corte, meaning "The Cut River") is the primary tributary of the Coatzacoalcos River, flowing through the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Veracruz to the Gulf of Mexico.
Zumpango del Río is the seat of the municipality of Eduardo Neri, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. The Spanish discovered silver lodes here in 1531, and started commercial silver mining in the area. Francisco de Hoyos and Juan Juan Jaramillo made the discovery when returning from a military expedition to Guerrero. Using Indian slave ...
Santa Maria del Rio is located in the center of the southern part of the San Luis Potosí, at an average altitude of 1,710 meters above sea level. The municipality is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Zaragoza , San Nicolás Tolentino and Ciudad Fernández , to the east is San Luis Potosí, to the south is Tierra Nueva and to the ...
Map of Mexico with Durango highlighted. Durango is a state in Northwest Mexico that is divided into 39 municipalities. [1] According to the 2020 Mexican census, Durango is the 25th most populous state with 1,832,650 inhabitants, but the 4th largest by land area spanning 123,575.36 square kilometres (47,712.71 sq mi).
The Marquessate of the Valley of Oaxaca (Spanish: Marquesado del Valle de Oaxaca) is a hereditary marquessal title in the Spanish nobility and a former seignorial estate in New Spain. It was granted to Don Hernán Cortés , conquistador who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire , by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1529.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Río Grande is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions. [1] The barrios and subbarrios, [ 2 ] in turn, are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores ( sectors in English).
San Juan del Río is a city (2010 census pop. 241,699) and administration of the surrounding San Juan del Río Municipality (pop. 208,462) in the central Mexican state of Querétaro. The population in for the municipality is 268,408 as of 2015. The city and its municipality have the second-highest population in the state.
Drawing of Gil González Dávila. Gil González Dávila founded the city in 1524 and called Villa de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora, now known as Cieneguita.In 1526 Hernán Cortés came to punish González Dávila and when he arrived on Honduras' coast from Mexico and started unloading horses and cargo from the ships, several horses were drowned, and for that reason, Cortés called it Puerto ...