Pénjamo
Place in Guanajuato, Mexico / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pénjamo (Purepecha: Penlamu or Penxamo 'place of ahuehuetes or sabinos'; Cradle of Hidalgo) is the seat of Pénjamo municipality, one of 46 municipalities of Guanajuato, Mexico. It was cofounded in 1549 by Guamares, Purépechas, and Otomis prior to the outbreak of the Chichimeca war.[1]
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Pénjamo, Guanajuato | |
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Nickname: Cuna de Hidalgo | |
Coordinates: 20°25′52″N 101°43′20″W | |
Country | Mexico |
Federal entity | Guanajuato |
Founded | 12 November 1542 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Dr. Juan José García López (PAN) |
Elevation | 1,770 m (5,807 ft) |
Population (2000) | |
• Total | 40,076 |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Standard Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time) |
Website | www |
The city is located to the southwest of the condition, and accounts for a total of 164,261.27 hectares of land that corresponds to 5.20% of the state total. It borders the municipalities of Abasolo, Cuerámaro, and Manuel Doblado de Guanajuato and the states of Jalisco and Michoacán. According to the 2000 Census, the total population of the municipality was 144,426; however, in the last census, conducted in 2010, the total population of the city was near 41,000, the majority of which devotes themselves to the services, trade, tourist services. The motto of the city is " M. Hidalgo Cradle", because in 1753, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the Father of the Mexican Motherland, was born in the Hacienda of Corralejo near the city.
Pénjamo was approved by the Congress of Union of the United Mexican States, Pénjamo's Metropolitan Zone Pénjamo - La Piedad which there is placed in the conditions Mexican's states of Guanajuato and Michoacan. The zone a population registers, according to the 2005 count of the INEGI [1] of 229,289 inhabitants. The Urban Delegation Santa Ana Pacueco, belonging to Pénjamo's City, is joined to La Piedad, Michoacan and only they are divided by the river Lerma though they are joined by 7 bridges (Hatches, Big River, Quota, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Cabadas and Them Dwell). For which both cities share needs and common problems, and they search of is Metropolitan Zone.