La Unión de Isidoro Montes de Oca is one of the 81
municipalities of Guerrero, in south-western
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. The municipal seat lies at
La Unión. The municipality covers an area of 1,142 km².
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 25,230.
The main towns are
La Unión, population 3,079; Petacalco, population 2,671; Zacatula, population 1,417; Lagunillas, population 1,371; El Naranjito, population 1,167; and Surcua, population 1,046.
[ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on December 23, 2008]
History
On October 26, 1614, the
Dutch Captain
Joris van Spilbergen
Joris van Spilbergen (1568 in Antwerp – January 31, 1620 in Bergen op Zoom) was a Dutch naval officer.
Joris van Spilbergen was born in Antwerp in 1568.
His first major expedition was in 1596, when he sailed to Africa.
He then left for As ...
- involved in
his country's war with Spain - raided with an expedition of five ships this part of the coast of the then
Spanish Mexico. At Zacatula he captured the pearl fishing ship ''San Francisco''.
[Quanchi, ''Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands'', page 233][Myers, Paul A., ''North to California'', Llumina Press, 2004]
References
Municipalities of Guerrero
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