Los Aldamas 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 ...
located in the northeast part of the Mexican state of
Nuevo León. Its geographic coordinates are {{coord, 26, 03, N, 99, 11, W}. It is bordered to the north by the state of
Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...
, to the south with the municipalities of
Doctor Coss and
China, to the east with the municipality of Dr. Coss, N.L and the state of Tamaulipas and to the west with the municipalities of
General Treviño
General Treviño is a municipality in northern Mexico.
General Treviño originated from a ranch named “El Puntiagudo” that was given to Don Juan Baptista Chapa on 14 January 1688. Don Francisco Chapa made the foundation in 1705. Its erectio ...
,
Melchor Ocampo
Melchor Ocampo (5 January 1814 – 3 June 1861) was a Mexican lawyer, scientist, and politician. A mestizo and a radical liberal, he was fiercely anticlerical, perhaps an atheist, and his early writings against the Catholic Church in Mexico ga ...
and
Los Herreras, N.L.
History
Franciscan
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priests founded the town in 1760 using the name of Guadalupe Mission, in an area then known as ''Puerto de Hoyos'', which was a watering hole for cattle on the west bank of the
San Juan River.
On Christmas Eve 1825, the Congress of the newly created State of
Nuevo León, decreed the foundation of a new township to be located at Puerto de Los Hoyos with the name of Villa de Santa María de Aldama. In 1829, the name was changed to ''Villa de Santa María de Los Aldamas'', the additional "s" to avoid confusion with Villa de Aldama, also located in Nuevo Leon. The name was in honor of brothers
Juan Aldama
Juan Aldama (January 3, 1774 in San Miguel el Grande, Guanajuato – June 26, 1811 in Chihuahua) was a Mexican revolutionary rebel soldier during the Mexican War of Independence in 1810.
Biography
He was also the brother of Ignacio Aldama ...
and
Ignacio Aldama, heroes of the
Mexican War of Independence
The Mexican War of Independence ( es, Guerra de Independencia de México, links=no, 16 September 1810 – 27 September 1821) was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from Spain. It was not a single, co ...
.
During the
Mexican Revolution, the municipality served as temporary capitol of the state from February to May, 1914.
External links
Official website
Municipalities of Nuevo León