Santiago Tequixquiac
Santiago Tequixquiac
Nthehe (in Otomi) | |
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Municipal Seat | |
UTC-5 (Central) | |
Postal code (of seat) | 55650 |
Website | http://www.tequixquiac.gob.mx/ |
Santiago Tequixquiac (or Tequixquiac in Nahuatl and Nthehe in Otomi), is a town and municipal seat from municipality of Tequixquiac in the State of Mexico, in Mexico. As of 2010, the village had a total population of 22,676.[1]
History
The area has been populated for at least the past 12,000 years B.C., according to archeological artifacts found in this area. Humans were most likely drawn here due to the location's abundance of streams and springs, they raised animals and kept up fruits and vegetables.[2]
The foundation of the town is attributed to the
After the fall of the Aztec empire to the Spanish,
19th century and 20th century
During a drought, a sculpture of the "Señor de la Capilla" (Our Lord of the Chapel) was brought over to Tequixquiac from Apaxco. When the drought broke, the image was not returned, presumably because it was made of fiber and had grown too heavy to carry. From then on, it has stayed in this town and many miracles have been attributed to it. The parish's vault was constructed in 1856.[2]
The first school in the town was built in 1856 in the San Miguelito neighborhood by Narciso Vargas.[2]
In the 20th century, the production of pulque was economically important here, with the Hacienda of San Sebastián being the major producer. A railway to connect Mexico City with the rest of the country was built through here in 1917 on what is now Alfredo del Mazo street, but was dismantled for political reason in 1945.[2]
21st century and present
The town of Santiago Tequixquiac became urbanized as part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area starting in the 1950s with urban problems now,[2] this urban sectors named agricultural colonies and new colonies at neighborhoods is the answer by Mexican Revolution for the redistribution of agricultural land, these new colonies have got many problems, the land propriety is very complicated, no urban planning, no security, no municipal services as water, lighting web, cleaning garbage service or pavement on the streets. In these places have got a growing demographic no planning and poverty on natural places or agricultural lands.
Santiago Tequixquiac hasn't united with other towns, has got many farms and growing land between other urban areas, but has arrived here more people come from others places. The native people has got vulnerability with an organized crime and narcotrafic cartels with impunity in the municipal government and policy.[4]
Geography
The town of Santiago Tequixquiac, a municipal seat and urban place most populated in the municipality. The town is divided in four barrios (neighborhood.) and one colonia ejidal (Agricultural colony).[5]
The Gran Canal de Desagüe de Ciudad de México is an artificial channel that crossing by Santiago Tequixquiac and connect with natural rivers, at gun port channel (lumbrera La Cinco) is open without tunnel. Other small river is Río Salado de Hueypoxtla this same cross the urban place, is using for irrigation growing lands.
The municipal seat is on a small hill named El Vije (Mbixe), Taxdho hill and Gumisha hill (B'omitsa) to an elongated north valley, the old village was named by Otomi people as (Nthehe) and Aztec people named this site as Tequixquiac (Place on Tequesquite waters).
Government and administrative divisions
As a municipal capital or municipal seat of Tequixquiac, Santiago Tequixquiac is the seat of the municipal government, known as the Ayuntamiento municipal.
Neighborhoods
Since 1999, the town has been divided into 5 administrative barrios (in Spanish),[5] each neighborhood has got colonies or seccions:
Neighborhood | Colonies |
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Santiago | Santiago Tequixquiac Downtown |
San José | San José Downtown, San Francisco Pueblo Nuevo, Taxdho, El Crucero |
San Mateo | San Mateo Downtown, Gumisha, El Vije, Deportiva, El Sol, El Cenicero |
San Miguel | San Miguel Downtown, Prados, El Jagüey, La Tres, La Nopalera, La Media Luna |
El Refugio | El Refugio Downtown, El Tajo, Palo Grande |
The neighborhoods (barrios) are based mostly on historical divisions, and several are former villages annexed by the town seat of Santiago Tequixquiac since Spanish colonial period in New Spain by religious administrative government. Each neighborhood has its own council led by a councilor (presidente del concejo in Spanish), also named COPACI concejo de participación ciudadana or Civil Participative Council. The composition of each neighborhood council depends on the number of votes each political civil parties (planillas in Spanish).
Agricultural colonies
Since 1999, the city has been divided into 2 administrative Agricultural colonies (colonias ejidales in Spanish),[5] is urban sectors consolidated in the 20th century on communal land by farmer's son homes :
Agricultural colony |
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Colonia Adolfo López Mateos |
Colonia Wenceslao Labra |
The Agricultural colonies (colonias ejidales) are based mostly on communal land divisions over neighborhood pad or way, and several are former urban sectors annexed by the town seat of Santiago Tequixquiac since 1960. Each Agricultural colony has its own communal sheriff (comisariado ejidal in Spanish), also the colony people use the COPACI concejo de participación ciudadana or Civil Participative Council. The composition of each colony council depends on the number of votes each political civil parties (planillas in Spanish).
Demography
The people in this village, mainly is
After Mexico's independence; English miners arrived here from
In the village of Santiago Tequixquiac there were 22,676 inhabitants in 2010.
Culture
Historical monuments
- Apostle James.
- El Calvario Chapel is catholic chapel built by religious activities for indigenous people in 1796.[8]
- Great Channel of Tequixquiac was a construction built in 1937 for to continue the working Water system of Mexico City.[9]
- Municipal House of Tequixquiac, is government house of the Ayuntamiento municipal seat, is located at Cuauhtémoc Main Plaza, into was painted murals that to describe a municipal history, since prehistoric to the 20th century.
- El Mesias Methodist church of Tequixquiac was the first Protestant temple built in Tequixquiac for English mine workers precedents from Real del Monte and Pachuca city, who built the second phase of the desagüe channel of Gran Canal with a British company in 1872.[10] In old Acatlan Hacienda was the first temple inside the working campament, after was built in Tequixquiac Downtown in 1901.[11]
- Casa de los Padres a residence firstly inhabited by a catholic priest, was built in 1930 with a New Spain style. Other owners were a Salinas family and Pérez family.
- Old cemetery Is a monument built in 1920, many death was changed from Saint James Apostle Parish to cemetery, after was made an agricultural defenders commemoration in the army movement into lands of Santiago Tequixquiac ejido (communal lands).
- Great Channel of El Tajo was a construction built in various phases, was inaugurated in 1900 by president Porfirio Díaz as the working Water system of Mexico City.
- Calcium oxide horns and chimney was constructions built for start the caves of Great Channel of Mexico City.
Gallery
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Santiago Apóstol parish in Tequixquiac
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Santiago Apóstol parish in Tequixquiac
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The Calvario chapel
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Calcium oxide horns in El Tajo
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Calcium oxide horns in El Tajo
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Casa de los Padres.
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Old cemetery
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Municipal hall of Tequixquiac
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Murals of municipal hall
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Methodist church in Tequixquiac
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Great Channel of Tequixquiac La Cinco
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Great Channel of El Tajo
Notable people
- Fortino Hipólito Vera y Talonia (1812-1889), philosopher and writer, bishop of Cuernavaca.
- Jorge Sánchez García (1943), leader, activist and politician, leader of Luz y Fuerza del Centro.
References
- ^ "División municipal. Tequixquiac, Estado de México" [Municipal division. State of Mexico] (in Spanish). SEDESOL. 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mexico Estado de Mexico Tequixquiac" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on May 27, 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
- ^ "Tequixquiac". Enciclopedia de Los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
- ^ Zumpango.net
- ^ a b c "Bando municipal de Tequixquiac" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
- ^ "Estado de México - Tequixquiac". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-01-27. Historic landmark in Tequixquiac (Spanish).
- ^ "Tendencia". Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
- ^ "Estado de México - Tequixquiac". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- ^ http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/ciudad/8954.html El Universal.
- ISBN 9789683679376.
- ^ "Demografía « Ayuntamiento de Tequixquiac". www.tequixquiac.gob.mx. Archived from the original on 2013-06-11.
Bibliography
- Bando Municipal de Policía y Buen Gobierno, 2008.
- Monografía Municipal de Tequixquiac, Rodríguez Peláez María Elena, 1999.
- El Refugio un lugar con historia, Rodríguez Reyes, María Jazmín, 2003.
- Santiago Tequixquiac, pueblo metropolitano, Rodríguez Villegas, Manuel, 2014.