La Unión de Isidoro Montes de Oca is one of the 81
municipalities of Guerrero
Guerrero is a state in Southwest Mexico that is divided into 81 municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, Guerrero is the 13th most populous state with inhabitants and the 14th largest by land area spanning .
Municipalities in Guer ...
, in south-western
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. The municipal seat lies at
La Unión. The municipality covers an area of 1,142 km².
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 25,230.
The main towns are
La Unión, population 3,079; Petacalco, population 2,671; Zacatula, population 1,417; Lagunillas, population 1,371; El Naranjito, population 1,167; and Surcua, population 1,046.
[ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on December 23, 2008]
History
On October 26, 1614, the
Dutch Captain
Joris van Spilbergen
Joris van Spilbergen (1568 in Antwerp – January 31, 1620 in Bergen op Zoom) was a Dutch naval officer.
Joris van Spilbergen was born in Antwerp in 1568.
His first major expedition was in 1596, when he sailed to Africa.
He then left for As ...
- involved in
his country's war with Spain - raided with an expedition of five ships this part of the coast of the then
Spanish Mexico
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( es, Virreinato de Nueva España, ), or Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Am ...
. At Zacatula he captured the pearl fishing ship ''San Francisco''.
[Quanchi, ''Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands'', page 233][Myers, Paul A., ''North to California'', Llumina Press, 2004]
References
Municipalities of Guerrero
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