Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas is a Mexican city (and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

) located in the central east region of the state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 428.64 square kilometres (1.40% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by

San Miguel de Allende San Miguel de Allende () is the principal city in the municipality of San Miguel de Allende, located in the far eastern part of Guanajuato, Mexico. A part of the Bajío region, the city lies from Mexico City, 86 km (53 mi) from Queré ...

, to the northeast by

Comonfort Comonfort is a Mexican town and municipality in the state of Guanajuato, declared a Pueblo Mágico since 2018. It was named after Mexican general and President Ignacio Comonfort. The municipality has an area of 485.90 square kilometres (1.60% of ...

, to the southeast by

Celaya Celaya (; ) is a city and its surrounding municipality in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, located in the southeast quadrant of the state. It is the third most populous city in the state, with a 2005 census population of 310,413. The municipality ...

, to the south by Villagrán, and to the west by

Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Herit ...

. The municipality had a population of 65,479 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. Santa Cruz received its name 1719 and by order of Spanish viceroy Baltazar de Zúñiga was given the status of village in 1721. Its current name of Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas was adopted in 1939 in honor of

Juventino Rosas José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (25 January 18689 July 1894) was a Mexican composer and violinist. Life and career Rosas was born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato, later renamed Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, and still later into Santa Cru ...

, a Mexican composer,

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

ist, and band leader who was born in the town. The municipal president of Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas and its many smaller outlying communities is Juan Antonio Acosta Cano. The main outlying communities in the municipality are Santiago Cuenda, Rincón de Centeno, Pozos, Morales, and Franco Tavera. Juan Antonio Acosta Cano (), deputy in the Congress of Guanajuato and precandidate for municipal president was shot and killed on January 12, 2021.

External links

Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas official website
(in Spanish)
Myspace youth website
(in Spanish)

References

{{Guanajuato Municipalities of Guanajuato Populated places in Guanajuato Populated places established in 1721 1721 establishments in New Spain