Nogales is a municipality in the mountainous western region of the
Mexican state
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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 ...
. The municipal seat is the city of
Nogales.
It is situated at , at an altitude of 1280 m, and covers a total surface area of
77.32 km
2. In the year 2005 INEGI Census, the municipality reported a total population of 31,818.
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Of the municipality's inhabitants, 1,286 (4.67%) spoke an
indigenous language, primarily
Nahuatl.
The name "Nogales" is the Spanish for
walnut trees.
The Lake of Nogales
Is a pleasant spa that is supplied water of fresh spring and is transparent forming a dam that is divided by small rivers. Infantile account with vestidores, games, areas of parking, rent of boats and sale of antojitos. Cerro de Huilapan, can be in wild form the following species: wild cat, tigrillo, squirrel, tejón, hare and great variety of birds.
History
This part of the future state of Veracruz was brought under
Aztec
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sway in or around 1450 under Emperor
Moctezuma I
Moctezuma I (–1469), also known as Moteuczomatzin Ilhuicamina (), Huehuemoteuczoma or Montezuma I ( nci, Motēuczōma Ilhuicamīna , nci, Huēhuemotēuczōma ), was the second Aztec emperor and fifth king of Tenochtitlan. During his reign, th ...
lhuicamina. Following the
Spanish conquest of Mexico
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, the area was awarded to the
conquistador Ojeda el Tuerto. Ojeda introduced
sugar cane
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into the area, and the San Juan Bautista Nogales sugar mill – one of the earliest, if not the very first on the American continent – was later established there.
In 1627, Rodrigo de Viveros y Aberrucia, owner of the sugar mill at the time, was named the First Count of the Valley of
Orizaba
Orizaba () is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located 20 km west of its sister city Córdoba, and is adjacent to Río Blanco and Ixtaczoquitlán, on Federal Highways 180 and 190. The city had a 2005 census ...
by
Philip III of Spain
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A member of the House of Habsburg, Phi ...
.
In 1910, the city of Nogales was awarded the status of a town (''villa'') and, in 1971, city status (''ciudad'').
References
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Nogales municipality
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Municipalities of Veracruz