Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas is a Mexican city (and
municipality) located in the central east region of the state 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 ...
. 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, to the northeast by
Comonfort, to the southeast by
Celaya, to the south by
Villagrán, and to the west by
Salamanca. 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
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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, a
Mexican
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composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
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violinist, 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