La Moncada is a small town in the
Tarimoro Municipality of
Guanajuato
Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...
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Mexico. The town has a population of 5,100 and sits on the road from Tarimoro City to Federal Highway 51 (
Celaya-
Salvatierra segment), it was founded in 1877 as La Moncada San José.
Education
La Moncada has two public elementary schools—Primaria José María Morelos y Pavón and Primaria Netzahualcóyotl— and one private,
Catholic elementary school—Primaria Niños Héroes. Most secondary students attend middle school at Secundaria Emiliano Zapata in nearby Charco Largo or Secundaria María Fuentes Sandoval in Tarimoro City.
Religion
Being in the Catholic conservative
Bajío
El Bajío (the ''lowland'') is a cultural and geographical region within the central Mexican plateau which roughly spans from north-west of the Mexico City metropolitan area to the main silver mines in the northern-central part of the country. Thi ...
region of Mexico, La Moncada's population is highly religious. The town's main church is San José Obrero;, which becomes the social centre in town each Sunday afternoon. It also has three smaller chapels scattered around town, including Capilla San José Carpintero, Capilla de la
Virgen de Guadalupe, and Capilla San Antonio; in temples it outnumbers even the municipal seat at
Tarimoro City (a city with about four times the population), by one.
Mayor
The current town mayor is Marco Lopez.
External links
Official site of Tarimoro MunicipalityPhotos from La Moncada
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Populated places in Guanajuato
Populated places established in 1877
1877 establishments in Mexico