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The previous settlement founded by Carvajal remained sparsely inhabited and was eventually depopulated. The definitive foundation of Monterrey occurred on September 20, 1596, when Spanish captain Diego de Montemayor , founded the city of Our Lady of Monterrey, "Along with a great mountain and the Santa Lucia water springs ", which had been the ...
When the New Kingdom of León was founded, it included Monterrey, Monclova, Saltillo and Cerralvo. The founding families formed a group of about thirty people in each locality. Gradually, Nuevo León was populated with families of nomadic herders of Portuguese origin who fought and displaced the native indigenous groups in the region.
1560 - Santa Lucia de León founded. [1] 1584 - Ojos de Santa Lucia outpost established by Spaniards. [2] 1596 - Settlement named "Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Senora de Monterrey" by Diego de Montemayor and made a city. [3] [1] 1603 - Cathedral construction begins. [2] 1730 - Church of San Francisco rebuilt. [4] 1775 - Population: 258. [2]
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.
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 .
On 10 December 1581, he founded Villa de la Cueva de León, no longer in existence, and in April 1582 he founded, as a city, Ciudad de León, now Cerralvo. About the same time he ordered his captain (and later Lieutenant) Gaspar Castaño de Sosa to found Villa de San Luis, now Monterrey, the capital of the modern Mexican state of Nuevo León.
Garcia Caves – discovered in 1843 in Garcia, Nuevo León. These caves feature stunning stalagmite formations and snail fossils. [33] Matacanes – in the municipality of Potrero Redondo in Santiago, Nuevo Leon. this is a 10 hour walking tour that includes rappel descents, underground rivers, waterfalls, and other natural obstacles. [34]
Alonso de León González was born in 1639, in the settlement of Cadereyta, Nuevo León in New Spain. He was the third son of General Alonso De León, a celebrated chronicler, historian and conquistador of the frontier of Nuevo León, and Josefa González. [1]