Nochistlán de Mejía (municipality)

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official_name = Nochistlán de Mejía
other_name = Nochistlán
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settlement_type = Municipality
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subdivision_type = Country
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subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Zacatecas
subdivision_type2 = Municipal seat
subdivision_name2 = Nochistlán de Mejía
subdivision_type3 = Largest City
subdivision_name3 = Nochistlán de Mejía
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leader_title = Municipal President
leader_name = nowrap|C. Ramón Jiménez Fuentes PRD
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established_title = Villa de Guadalajara (When settled by Spaniards)
established_date = 1531 [ [http://www.nochistlan.gob.mx/historia.html Nochistlán Website's History Page] ]
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established_date2 = 1825
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latd= 21|latm= 48|lats=03 |latNS= N
longd= 102|longm= 45|longs=57 |longEW= W
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postal_code = 99900-99919
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Nochistlán is one of the 58 municipalities in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. Founded by the Caxcanes, it was also the first site of Guadalajara in Mexico.

Population

In the 2005 census the Municipality of Nochistlán reported a population of 26,195. [http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/ Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005] INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática] Of these, 15,322 lived in the municipal seat, Nochistlán, and the remainder lived in surrounding rural communities.

History

The first news that we have regarding the natives of these lands points to the Tecuexes. These people established settlements around 1000 A.D. Later in the 12th century a new group of people moved in, these people were called Caxcanes and they were from the valley in Tuitlán, which is now found in the Municipality of Villanueva, Zacatecas. The Caxcanes established Nochistlán by driving out the Tecuexes by force.

Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán, on December 3, 1531, hired Juan de Oñate to establish a village in Nochistlán, (now a town in Zacatecas) the village would be named Guadalajara to honor Guzmán for having been born in Guadalajara.Guadalajara was founded in Nochistlán on January 5, having as officials Juan de Oñate, Sancho Ortiz de Zuñiga and Miguel Ibarra. They worked at this project for only 16 months and created the first layout of Guadalajara.

Location

*Latitude 21°48'03" N
*Longitude 102°45'57" W
*Population 26, 195

References

External links

* [http://www.nochistlan.gob.mx/index.htm Nochistlán Government Site (In Spanish)]
* [http://www.myspace.com/NochistlanZacatecas Nochistlán official MySpace