Nogales (Veracruz)
Nogales is a city and a district in the region Altas Montañas in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city has about 21,000 inhabitants and is situated 1280 m above sea level. M. It is located on the route of the historic Camino Real, which connected the Mexican capital with his time major Mexican port city of Veracruz.
Name
Originally the place was known as the Oztoticpac, which means in the cave, to the cave In the cave or cave above the mean and a nod to the local Cañón de la Carbonera should be with its gorges and tunnels. Its current name is the Spanish word for walnut trees that were available in abundance at earlier times in the community.
History
In 1450 the city fell under Act ish supremacy.
1524 saw Hernán Cortés, the fertility of the local valley of Orizaba and instructed the parties to the conquest of Mexico Spanish soldiers Ojedo el Tuerto to cultivate the sugar cultivation. Tuerto opened with the factory of San Juan Bautista Nogales, according to the traditions probably the first sugar factory in the Americas.
1721 constituted the Church as " República de Indios ".
During the Mexican War of Independence, General José María Morelos was born on October 28, 1812, with more than ten thousand independence fighters in the city, spent the night and attacked the next day from the nearby Cerro del Borrego stationed in Orizaba royalist troops, which he a painful inflicted defeat.
During the French intervention came in the June 1862 General Ignacio Zaragoza and his troops in the city and prepared to fight stationed in neighboring Orizaba French troops.
1882 San Lorenzo textile factory was founded in Nogales, whose workers together with those from the neighboring textile mills of Río Blanco and Santa Rosa sat against the exploitation by the French factory owner to fight back. The uprising was brutally crushed, as on January 7, 1907, the military command of the authoritarian president Porfirio Díaz from the firearm use and made several workers in Río Blanco and Nogales were killed.
1933 was in Nogales, the only addition to the Cerveceria Moctezuma resident in neighboring Orizaba brewery in the state of Veracruz. They renamed temporarily as Cerveceria Nogales and as Cerveceria Orizaba and brewed a beer called Azteca. After being taken over by the beer giant Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Monterrey in 1945, it received its name. Following the merger of United Breweries Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma and Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma to in 1988, the brewery was closed in Nogales and moved production to Orizaba.
The village of Nogales was raised in 1910 in the rank of a town (villa) and 1971 it received city rights ( it was assigned as ciudad ).
Attractions
The most important buildings of the city are the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista and the Templo de San Pedro de Maltrata.
Other attractions of the municipality are the Laguna de Nogales and the Cerro de Huilapan.