Medellín de Bravo, formerly known as Tecamachales, is a town in the state of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Mexico and the capital of the
municipality of Medellín . It is part of the Metropolitan Area of
Veracruz
Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...
.
History
In pre-Columbian America the place was called ''Tecamachales''. After the battle of
La Noche Triste
La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night") was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the ...
in 1520,
Hernán Cortés ordered
Gonzalo de Sandoval
Gonzalo de Sandoval (1497, Medellín, Spain – late in 1528, Palos de la Frontera, Spain) was a Spanish conquistador in New Spain (Mexico)Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, and briefly co-governor of the colo ...
to found Medellín. In the year 1529,
Don Juan de Zumárraga, bishop of Mexico, arrived in the town for the inauguration of the local church, considered the second in New Spain, which received the name of ''San Miguel Arcángel''.
Festivals
In September, celebrations takes place in honour of the Archangel Michael, the patron of the town.
External links
Town website of Medellín de Bravo, Veracruz
Populated places in Veracruz
Populated places established in 1520
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