Jiménez Municipality is a municipality located in the
Mexican
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state of
Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...
. It was founded on February 17, 1749 as Santander by
Pedro Saldívar Cantú
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning " ...
in recognition of his Basque Spanish roots.
[June 14th, 1757 census, Santander (Jimenez, Tamaulipas), Mexico census taken by Don Jose de Escandon. Mil Familias III, by Rodolfo Gonzalez de la Garza. Page 95.] By decree of the State Congress on October 31, 1827, Santander was renamed Jiménez to honor the memory of "'Colonel Juan Nepomuceno Jiménez"'.
References
External links
Gobierno Municipal de JiménezOfficial website
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Municipalities of Tamaulipas