Moroleón is a city and municipal seat of the
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
of Moroleón in the
Mexican state
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* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
of
Guanajuato
Guanajuato, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato, is one of the 32 states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Guanajuato, 46 municipalities and its cap ...
. It is near the cities of
Yuriria,
Morelia
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, and
Uriangato, forming the
metropolitan area
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of Uriangato-Moroleón with Uriangato. The municipality has an area of 164.97 km
2 (60.606 sq mi), with an urban population of 41,909 and municipal population of 46,751 as of 2005.
Moroleón is considered an important clothes shopping destination in Guanajuato, with clothing stores that line the streets for miles as it is one of the leading cities of the textile industry in all of Mexico. The city holds annual festivals on 16 January and 16 September to celebrate the
history of the Catholic Church in Mexico and the
independence of Mexico, respectively.
History
In 1604, Dona Juana María de Medina y Calderón was granted land in the jurisdiction of Yuririapúndaro in southern Guanajuato by 9th Viceroy of New Spain Don Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo (1560-1606). Eventually, the heir to jurisdiction of Yuririapúndaro Don Jose Guzman Lopez begin settling the lands in 1775 along with several other prominent families of the area. The jurisdiction of Yuririapúndaro would be the land were Moroleón would be officially recognized by the state of Guanajuato as a municipality in 1845. The municipality of Moroleón was 1 of 46 municipalities across the state of Guanajuato that were created by a governor's Decree of Creation on November 19, 1845. In 1929, Moroleón was officially recognized as a city by decree of state of Guanajuato Governor Agustín Arroyo Ch.
[Salgado, Agustin Martinez & Sanchez, Evangelina Gordillo. Moroleon, Sus Inicios...Y 200 Anos de Laboriosidad Compartida. Gobierno del Estado de Guanajuato. Guanajuato, Guanajuato MX. 2010.]
Notable people
* General
Tomás Moreno (1800–1864)
*
Jesús López López, doctor, writer, poet and politician (1888–1962)
* Arizona State Representative
Cesar Chavez (born October 30, 1987)
* United States Representative
Salud Carbajal (born November 18, 1964)
References
Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
External links
Official website
Populated places in Guanajuato
Municipalities of Guanajuato
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