miércoles, 27 de octubre de 2010

Durango

Durango is one of 31 states that together make up the Federal District of Mexico's 32 states.
The name "Durango" comes from the founding of the town of Durango by Francisco de Ibarra, the Spanish conqueror from the town of Eibar near the town of Durango in the Basque province of Vizcaya, Spain. Ibarra says
... And I founded a villa that I named the town of Durango, as in my homeland ...Although the capital is popularly known as Durango, its official name is "Victoria de Durango" in honor of Mexico's first president, Guadalupe Victoria, who was originally from this state. Chihuahua is bordered to the north, east to Coahuila and Zacatecas, Nayarit to the south, the southwest by Jalisco, Sinaloa to the west. Ranks 4th in the nation on the surface. Among its most important cities are Victoria de Durango, Gómez Palacio and Ciudad Lerdo.


A second approach assumes that the carriers of Mesoamerican culture, have migrated north. So Oasisamérica be a derivation of its southern neighbors. In this regard, the development of oasisamericanas cultures, like those of northern Mesoamerica, have been linked to groups that originally lived in western Mexico. Archaeological evidence suggests that groups of Uto-Aztecan affiliation would have brought agriculture to the region oasisamericana. Although agricultural techniques had been imported from the south, the people built a civilization oasisamericanos with particular characteristics, which maintained relations with farmers in Mesoamerica.
Spanish exploration began in 1531 with the issuance of Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán. In the following decades, especially under the command of Francisco de Ibarra, settlements were established in the area and further north of the city of Zacatecas, where silver deposits were discovered. Ibarra named the new area and Nueva Vizcaya in honor of his homeland Vizcaya (one of the Basque provinces). Nueva Vizcaya included the modern Mexican states of Chihuahua and Durango, as well as certain areas of eastern Sonora and Sinaloa, and southwestern Coahuila. [2] The region came under the judicial jurisdiction of the Real Audiencia de Guadalajara, as well as administration.
As part of the Bourbon Reforms, in 1777 the northern provinces of the Viceroyalty were organized in the General Command of the Interior Provinces, which was an autonomous entity of the Viceroyalty in military and administrative issues, but supported financially by it.

In May, the Northwest Division, commanded by Álvaro Obregón, took the towns of Santa Rosa and Santa Maria, which virtually secured the control of Sonora, so they moved along the Pacific coast, reaching the central Jalisco. In Chihuahua and part of the Laguna Region operated the Northern Division of Francisco Villa. Northeast Division, commanded by Pablo Gonzalez and Centre Division under the command of Panfilo Natera, completed the Constitutionalist troops who fought the Huerta regime during the second half of 1913.







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