Zaragoza is a
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 ...
in the
Mexican state
The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...
of
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
. Zaragoza was named after the city of
Zaragoza, Spain
Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...
, since among the first settlers of the place families were some of the city from
Aragon
Aragon ( , ; Spanish and an, Aragón ; ca, Aragó ) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces (from north to sou ...
. That is why today in Zaragoza is dedicated to the Virgen del Pilar, patron de la Hispanidad.
History
The legends and stories that have this great magnificent city are quite complex. Zaragoza identifies what is the train or the tracks that were left to remember the train today. Zaragoza was once a
hacienda
An ''hacienda'' ( or ; or ) is an estate (or ''finca''), similar to a Roman ''latifundium'', in Spain and the former Spanish Empire. With origins in Andalusia, ''haciendas'' were variously plantations (perhaps including animals or orchards), ...
which was exchanged for merchandise, after Spanish arrived they began to settle, built houses and more. Zaragoza decided to name it for the honor of Spain.
Geography
Climate
The territory involved in the temperate zone of the
Sierra Norte, has four climatic variations. Since semi-cold humid climate with summer rains (ce) (W2), the mean annual temperature between 5 and 12 °C, the temperature of the coldest month from less than 3 and 18 °C. Those whose dry month precipitation is less than 40 millimeters, and a percentage of winter precipitation over the year, between 5 and 10.2 mm. Occur in the mountainous southeast. Humid temperate climate (w '9) (w), with summer rainfall, with mean annual temperature between 12 and 18 °C., temperature of the coldest month from less than 3 and 18 °C, rate of precipitation during winter regarding the annual 5 to 10.2. Is the predominant climate is observed in the middle. The humid temperate climate (CM), with summer rainfall, mean annual temperature between 12 and 10 °C, temperature of the coldest month, from less than 3 and 18 °C, precipitation of driest month less than 40 mm, and the percentage of precipitation winter with respect to annual more than 5 mm. It comes in a strip north of town.
Towns
The population of Zaragoza is the capital of the homonymous municipality and under its jurisdiction are the following locations: Acuacar, Colonia Morelos, El Porvenir, El Retiro, Las Trancas, San José Buenavista, and Xalehuala.
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Municipalities of Puebla