Cerralvo, sometimes known as Ceralvo, is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

situated in the

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Nuevo León Nuevo León, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León, is a Administrative divisions of Mexico, state in northeastern Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, San Luis ...

. Cerralvo is located in the northeastern region of Nuevo León, in the

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and in the northeastern agricultural and ranching economic zone that also includes the municipalities of

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, and

Parás Parás is a rural municipal town in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico, founded on February 17, 1851. It lies southwest of the Falcón Reservoir in Tamaulipas. It was founded in what was known as ''Rancho Huizachal de los Canales''. The name ''Par ...

. It borders the municipality of

to the north, the municipality of

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to the west, the municipality of

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to the southwest, the municipality of

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to the south, and the municipalities of

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, and

to the east.Cerralvo
, ''Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México''. Accessed on line March 20, 2008. The municipal seat of Cerralvo, Ciudad Cerralvo, is located at 26° 5' N, 99° 36' W, and is 345 meters above sea level.

History

In 1577, José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva founded the village of

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; in the same year, he also founded Santa Lucía, now called

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, and discovered the mines of San Gregorio, located in what is now called Cerralvo. On May 31, 1579, Luis Carvajal signed an agreement with King Philip II of Spain to pacify the region and to establish the state of

; the contract authorized him to do this in an area that did not exceed 200 leagues on a side. The first Spanish settlement in Nuevo León took place in 1582 in Cerralvo, which thus included the first capital of the state. In 1630, this settlement was renamed ''Villa de San Gregorio de Cerralvo'', after the fifteenth Viceroy of

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Rodrigo Pacheco y Osorio, marqués de Cerralvo Don Rodrigo Pacheco y Osorio de Toledo, 3rd Marquess of Cerralvo () (c. 1565, Spain – June, 1652, Madrid) was a Spanish nobleman, inquisitor of Valladolid, and viceroy of New Spain. He held the latter position from November 3, 1624 to Sep ...

. The municipality was settled in order to exploit mineral resources, including lead, and to sell Indians to the Spanish. Cerralvo is home to the national park ''El Sabinal'', which, with an area of 8

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s, is the smallest national park in Mexico.

Timeline

* 1577— José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva discovers the mines of San Gregorio (Cerralvo). * 1582—First Spanish settlement in Nuevo León is founded in Cerralvo. * 1630—Settlement receives the name of Villa de San Gregorio de Cerralvo. * 1949—

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is founded as Molinos Azteca, SA, in Cerralvo.Historia
, Acerca de GRUMA, Gruma web site, accessed on line March 20, 2008.

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External links

Cerralvo
official government web site. {{Nuevo León Municipalities of Nuevo León

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