General Cepeda
General Cepeda
San Francisco de los Patos | |
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Municipal seat and city | |
General Cepeda | |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 4,382 |
General Cepeda is a city and seat of the
The town is named after Victoriano Cepeda Camacho (1826-1892), a general and a governor of Coahuila. Until 1892, the town was named San Francisco de los Patos and had been the headquarters for two of the largest estates in all of the Americas.History
Until 1892, General Cepeda was named San Francisco de los Patos. Patos was established in 1575 and initially the land was owned by Francisco de Urdiñola. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the "splendid hacienda" in the town was the headquarters of two of the largest
Geography
The town of General Cepeda is located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) in straight-line distance west of the state capital of Saltillo. General Cepeda has an elevation of 1,466 metres (4,810 ft). The town is located in the northern foothills of the Sierra de Los Patos (Duck Mountains) which at La Concordia Mountain reach a maximum elevation of 3,441 metres (11,289 ft).[4] The mountains are cooler and receive more precipitation than the surrounding desert and the waterways flowing down from the mountains made the General Cepeda area feasible for irrigated agriculture and attractive to Spanish settlers in the 16th and 17th centuries. When the Spanish first visited the area in 1568, a small lake they called Laguna de los Patos (Duck Lake) was near what became the town.[5]
Climate
General Cepeda is on the southern edge of the
See also
- José de Azlor y Virto de Vera, the Marques de San Miguel del Aguayo
- Sánchez Navarro latifundio, this large estate in the 18th and 19th centuries was based in San Francisco de los Patos, now General Cepeda.
References
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on November 9, 2008
- ^ "General Cepeda," [1] Archived 2019-01-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 6 Jan 2018
- ^ Harris III, Charles H. (1975), A Mexican Family Empire, Austin: University of Texas Press, p. 6
- ^ Google Earth
- ^ "General Cepeda: una Hacienda con mucha mas que Historia", p. 3, [2], accessed 5 Jan 2019
- ^ "General Cepeda, Coahuila", Weatherbase, [3], accessed 6 Jan 2018