San Jerónimo (Los Barbosa)
Pueblos de America - SAN JERóNIMO (LOS BARBOSA)
is a locality and municipal agency of San Martín de Hidalgo Municipality, Jalisco
Jalisco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in western Mexico and is bordered by s ...
, Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
. As of the 2010 census, the village had a total population of 355, making it the eleventh-largest locality in the municipality and the second-largest in the territorial sub-committee.
San Jerónimo is the home of the state-funded San Jerónimo Dam
The San Jerónimo Dam () is a dam located near the hill of La Tecolota in the town of San Jerónimo, Jalisco, Mexico. The dam was built at a cost of 8,461,000; it was inaugurated on February 10, 2009 by the state governor Emilio González Márque ...
which cost
It is situated 45 miles southwest of Guadalajara
Guadalajara ( ; ) is the capital and the most populous city in the western Mexican List of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco, as well as the most densely populated municipality in Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population ...
, and 80 miles east of Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta ( or simply Vallarta) is a Mexican resort city near the Bahía de Banderas on the Pacific coast of the Mexico, Mexican state of Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta is the second largest urban agglomeration in the state after the Guadalajara ...
.
History
The village of San Jerónimo was first annotated as one of the settlements comprising the jurisdiction of Cocula in 1744. Hometown of Elizabeth Torres.
Demographics
2010
According to the 2010 Censo General de Población y Vivienda
The Censo de Población y Vivienda (''Population and Housing Census'') is the main national population census for Mexico. It is compiled by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a decentralized agency of the Mexican Federal g ...
, San Jerónimo (Los Barbosa) had a population of 355 inhabitants, of which 164 were male and 191 were female.
Government
San Jerónimo is one of the 18 municipal agencies of San Martín de Hidalgo Municipality and belongs to the territorial sub-committee of Santa Cruz de las Flores. A municipal agent and a municipal sub-agent preside over San Jerónimo in the administrative and representative sense and are appointed and removed by the municipal council.
San Jerónimo is located in the 18th Local Electoral District.
Agriculture
San Jerónimo was incorporated into an ejido
An ''ejido'' (, from Latin ''exitum'') is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights, which in Mexico is not held by the Mexican state. People awarded ejidos in the modern era farm them indiv ...
on March 25, 1925, with a total of 582 hectares of communal land.
Unincorporated communities
* La Madera, part of the village
* Planta de Beneficio, former settlement outside the village
Localities
* El Cerrito de los Tapia
* La Barranca de San Jerónimo
References
External links
San Jerónimo's official website
*
Information of San Jerónimo
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:San Jeronimo (Los Barbosa)
Populated places in Jalisco