Allende is a municipality located in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It comprises a region known as Región Citrícola (Citrus Region), for being a major producer of orange at local, national and even international level. Allende is located at the Sierra Madre Oriental range foothills in the central-southeastern part in the state of Nuevo León. It has a territorial extension of 148.5 km2, comprising around 0.22% of the whole extension of Nuevo León. Given its geographic location, the region consists of valleys and hills ranging from 300 meters above sea level on the northeast, to 1,640 meters above sea level in the southwestern part of the municipality. According to the 2010 census data, it had a population of 32,581, of whom 16,436 were men and 16,145 were women. The main economic activities are agriculture, livestock, beekeeping (Allende is one of the largest producers of honey in Mexico), poultry and transportation, activities that generate many jobs in the region.
Geography The municipality is located around 46.7 km. (30 miles) on the highway to Linares, southwards Monterrey. It borders the municipality of Santiago to the north and northeast, going throughout the Sierra Madre Oriental and the stream of Cerro Las Cruces. It's also bounded on the north by the municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez, having as natural boundary streams of the Lazarillos and Los Nogales, where they converge with Ramos River. Allende also borders the municipality of Montemorelos to the northeast, east, southeast and south.
History Prior the arrival of the first Spanish settlers to the New Kingdom of León in the late sixteenth century, these lands were inhabited by a group of indigenous people of Chichimeca origin called Huachichiles, that prevented the penetration of settlers to the region called "Cuarisezapa" that stretched from the outskirts of Monterrey until Guajuco Valley in what today are the municipalities of Santiago and Allende, they were shortly expelled when the Spanish arrived.Alanís (2006), p. 211.
The Spanish promoted the colonization of the area and founded the Cuarisezapa Guajuco Valley, comprising an area to the Ramos river. Its first settler was Captain Diego Rodriguez de Montemayor, grandson of the founder of Monterrey Diego de Montemayor, who received a grant from Governor Martin de Zavala in 1646 and two years later expanded it by a purchase to Diego Fernandez de Montemayor.Alanís (2006), p. 211. When he died, his widow Ines de la Garza with her children continued working on livestock, agriculture in the haciendas.Alanís (2006), p. 211.
General Luis Garcia de Pruneda owned large estates in the vicinity of these lands by the 1700s, when he died in 1739, he desired that a part of his properties were devoted to charitable works, so in 1749 was promoted the creation of two chaplaincies that included what today are the municipalities of Allende, Cadereyta Jimenez and Montemorelos.
Government Municipal presidents Term Municipal president Political partyNotes1939-1940 Baudelio E. Salazar Garza PRM 1941-1942 Ciro Tamez Lozano 1943-1945 Cruz Rodríguez Cavazos 1946-1946 Reynaldo Marroquín Garza PRI Acting municipal president1946-1947 Rogelio Salazar M. 1948-1951 Hermenegildo Leal 1952-1954 José Tamez Leal 1955-1957 Rogelio Salazar Martínez 1958-1960 Tobías Villalón Cavazos 1961-1963 Rogelio Salazar Cavazos 1964-1966 Ramón Flores Aguirre 1967-1969 Héctor Tamez Rodríguez 1970-1971 David Cardoso Tamez 1972-1973 Rubén G. Cavazos Cardoso 1974-1976 Gerardo H. Leal Silva 1977-1979 Antonio Javier Cavazos Flores 1980-1982 Gilberto Tamez Rodríguez 1983-1985 Jorge Salazar Suárez 1986-1988 Roberto Aguirre Vega 1989-1991 Juventino Fernández González 1991 Juan Alonso García Moya Acting municipal president1992-1994 Jorge Heriberto Salazar Salazar 1994 Juana Aurora Cavazos C. Acting municipal president1995-1997 José Luis Rodríguez Cavazos 1997-2000 Ramiro Tamez Martínez 2000-2003 Adrián Antonio Cavazos Parra 2003-2006 Sergio Alejandro Alanís Marroquín 2006-2009 Luis Gerardo Marroquín Salazar 2009-2012 Jorge Alberto Salazar Salazar 2006-2009 Luis Gerardo Marroquín Salazar 2009-2012 Jorge Alberto Salazar Salazar 2012-2015 Jaime Salazar Marroquín 2015-2018 Silverio Manuel Flores Leal PAN 2018-2021 Eva Patricia Salazar Marroquín PRI 2021-2024 Eva Patricia Salazar Marroquín PRI PRD She was reelected on 06/06/20212024- Eduardo Leal Buenfil PAN
Tourism
The Ramos River attracts many visitors for its landscapes, another tourist site is El paseo de la Loma de la Santa Cruz (Loma de la Santa Cruz's walk) which offers a panoramic view from the municipal seat. Other tourist sites are the Plaza Zaragoza, in front of town Hall and Plaza Mariano Escobedo. The Parroquia de San Pedro Apóstol (Parish of St. Peter Apostle), which is a modern building on a smaller scale replica of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Museum of Anthropology, History and Culture House in the Old Temple, the shrine of Our Lady of Light at Rancho El Cerro, the Hacienda del provisor, the collection gallery of Bernardo Flores Salazar and the municipal palace.Alanís (2006), p. 216.Alanís (2006), p. 217.
Museums
The ancient temple of San Pedro Apostol, is now a museum that houses the history and culture of the municipality, along with antiquities of items and depictions of life-style of the town.Alanís (2006), p. 216.
References
External links Official website of Allende