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Coeneo de la Libertad is a town and municipal seat of the Coeneo municipality, located in the north central area of the
Mexican state
The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...
of
Michoacán
Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...
. The name Coeneo means "place of birds".
History
In the year 1530 Friar Martín de la Coruña was the first to come into contact with the natives of the lands that now make up the present-day Coeneo. He quickly gained trust, affection, and respect, and convinced the natives to convert to the Catholic faith. However, the Spanish conquistador
Nuño de Guzmán
Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán (c. 14901558) was a Spanish conquistador and colonial administrator in New Spain. He was the governor of the province of Pánuco from 1525 to 1533 and of Nueva Galicia from 1529 to 1534, and president of the first Royal ...
attempted to rob the natives of their possessions and abuse them for refusing to comply. This caused a period where the natives went back into the mountains and to destroy the progress that Martín de la Coruña had made. It was until the Friar
Jacob Dacian succeeded de la Coruña that dialogue began again. An arrangement was made in 1542 for a few families to reallocate to the location now known as Coeneo due to a scarcity of water around the region. Once the new community was established plans were drafted to construct the town's church, a town square, and a patron was given "La Virgen del Rosario."
Demographics
As of the
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
of 2005, there were 3616 people residing in the town.
Education
Coeneo enjoys a diverse set of both public and private schools.
*Two pre-elementary schools
*A public elementary school
*A private elementary school - Institucion Educativa y Cultural Coeneo
*A public middle school - Escuela secundaria tecnica #61
*A COBAM (high school)
*A center for adult education
Economy
The area around Coeneo is centered on agriculture where
lentils
The lentil (''Lens culinaris'' or ''Lens esculenta'') is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens-shaped seeds. It is about tall, and the seeds grow in pods, usually with two seeds in each. As a food crop, the largest produ ...
and
corn
Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...
are the main crops cultivated. Non-agricultural industries are mainly related to construction materials, financial institutions, and small family-operated businesses.
Towns in Coeneo municipality
*Coeneo de la Libertad
*Santiago Azajo
*La Cañada
*Pretoria
*El Rodeo
*Tunguitiro
*San Isidro
*Cotiro
*Matugeo
* Ojo De Agüita
*Colonia Benito Juarez
*El Transvaal
*Zipiajo
*El Cobrero
*Colonia Primo Tapia
*Laredo
*Quencio
*San Pedro Tacaro
*Bellas Fuentes
*La Cofradia
*Emiliano Zapata
*Comanja
*Aguas Caliente
*Chahueto
*La Constitución
Transportation
There are several bus lines that serve the routes to Huaniqueo, Morelia or Zacapu such as "Autobuses Bellas Fuentes", "Autobuses Ciénega de Zacapu" and "Norte de Michoacán", in addition to providing a foreign and suburban collective service to Zipiajo, El Cobrero, and Tinguitiro.
References
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External links
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Populated places in Michoacán