Ojuelos de Jalisco

Ojuelos de Jalisco
Municipality and Town
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas
Coat of arms of Ojuelos de Jalisco
Location of the municipality in Jalisco
Location of the municipality in Jalisco
Ojuelos de Jalisco is located in Mexico
Ojuelos de Jalisco
Ojuelos de Jalisco
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 21°52′N 101°35′W / 21.867°N 101.583°W / 21.867; -101.583
Country Mexico
StateJalisco
Garrison built1569
Government
 • Mayor / Presidente MunicipalMarco Antonio Jasso Romo
Area
 • Total1,156.71 km2 (446.61 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total30,097
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)
Postcode
47540
Area code496

Ojuelos de Jalisco is a town and municipality in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The town's 1990 population was 7,265,[1] although by the year 2010 it had increased to 11,881.[2]

It sits at the junction of Mexico Highways 51, 70, and 80. The municipality is located in the North-Central region of Mexico. It is bordered by 3 states: Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes. Also, it is located in close proximity to the state of San Luis Potosi. All of the above makes of Ojuelos one of the municipalities with the most borders in Mexico. It also borders with the Lagos de Moreno municipality in the state of Jalisco.

History

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Oldest map of the North Central region of Mexico. 16th century. The original map is preserved in the National History Museum in Madrid, Spain
Overview of the Fort Ojuelos

The city was founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Carrillo Davila in 1569, as a fortification or military garrison to protect travelers against the Chichimecas warriors. The fortification of Ojuelos was one of the seven ones built at the request of the Viceroy Martín Enriquez de Almanza in the important route Mexico-Zacatecas which later became the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. The fortification in Ojuelos was the first being built and it is only one still in place. The decision to build the seven fortifications was made by Viceroy Enriquez de Almanza in response to deadly attacks made by Chichimecas commanded by their legendary leader Maxorro.

Ojuelos has a significant value in Colonial history in Mexico and North America, since its fortification is the only one which has survived to present day keeping its main structure as originally built in 1569. Currently, it houses the offices of the City Hall and a Library.

The Archive of the Ojuelos's Hacienda.

In 1874, Ojuelos was designated as Municipality by Ignacio L. Vallarta, Governor of the State of Jalisco, after a long border dispute with the state of Zacatecas.

In 2010, Ojuelos was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro 2010. Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the Royal Inland Road, also known as the Silver Route. This UNESCO's World Heritage Site consists of a series of sites lying along a 1400 km section of this 2600 km route, that extends north from Mexico City to Texas and New Mexico, United States of America. The route was actively used as a trade route for 300 years, from the mid-16th to the 19th centuries, mainly for transporting silver extracted from the mines of Zacatecas, Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí, and mercury imported from Europe. Although it is a route that was motivated and consolidated by the mining industry, it also fostered the creation of social, cultural and religious links in particular between Spanish and Amerindian cultures. In the case of Ojuelos, the specific sites inscribed in the UNESCO Roster are the historic downtown of Ojuelos (Site 1351-018) including "El Fuerte", "El Parian" and other historic buildings, and the Bridge of Ojuelos "El Puente de Ojuelos" (Site 1351-019).[3]

Bridge built in 1569 as part of the "Camino de Tierra Adentro" route

Culture

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In Ojuelos are manufacture of wool serapes, pottery, and colonial furniture, also elaboration of eggnog (rompope) and prickly pear fruit sweet paste.

Landmarks

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Architecture

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  • Among other touristic attractions, Ojuelos also has a plaza, El Parián, which is surrounded by 102 Gothic arches. El Parián was designed at the end of the 19th century by priest Luis G. Maciel.
The Parian Plaza in Ojuelos, Mexico. 102 Gothic arches. Built in the 19th century
View of the Ojuelos Parish from the pond
Parián Plaza. Built at the end of the 19th century
  • El Fuerte (Municipal Palace). Built in the 16th century.
  • Hacienda de Ojuelos (typical hacienda house, which today is used as a training and meeting center for the parochial church).
  • The Bridge of Ojuelos. Built in the 16th century

Churches

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  • Temple of San José.

Parks and reserves

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  • Cerro del Toro and the Mayal (Hill of the Bull and the Mayal).
  • Cerro de Buenavista (Hill of Good View).

Most central Mexican place controversy

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In the Plaza de Armas (Main Square) of Ojuelos (between the Municipal Presidency and the Parish Church of San José) there is a multicolored three-dimensional sign which reads, "OJUELOS" and below this word, in smaller white letters, the phrase "Corazón de México" (Heart of Mexico), and when searching in Google Maps the following: "Centro de México, Ojuelos", the website (or the Google Maps application) displays a satellite map with the legend: "Centro de México" and the image of a white silhouette-symbol of a photographic camera. By clicking or tapping on said camera, photographs of the main square of the town are opened, where there is a statue of a Christ with a crown of thorns, placed on a pedestal in the shape of a truncated quadrangular pyramid, and the aforementioned sign. Presumably this square 21°52′0.93″N 101°35′26.16″W / 21.8669250°N 101.5906000°W / 21.8669250; -101.5906000 is the geographic centre of the United Mexican States.

Hoaxes of this kind have been around for decades. The townsfolk of Tequisquiapan, Querétaro, boast of having the "geographic centre" of the country, 20°31′17.62″N 99°53′38.2″W / 20.5215611°N 99.893944°W / 20.5215611; -99.893944 by agreement of 1916 of the first head of the Constitutionalist Army and in charge of the Federal Executive Power Venustiano Carranza. In May 1970, the municipal authorities of Tequisquiapan unveiled an allusive plaque. [4][5]

The city of Aguascalientes once also claimed to be the centre, and the authorities of that municipality placed a plaque in the Main Square of that city[4] (it is no longer there).

For its part, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía) indicates that the geographic centre of Mexico, when taking into account only the continental extremes, is located at the following coordinates: 23°37′43″N 101°55′48″W / 23.62861°N 101.93000°W / 23.62861; -101.93000, a point to the north-northwest of Nueva Pastoría, a town located in the Zacatecan municipality Villa de Cos.

But INEGI's calculation is based on averages of the means of the several longest straight lines that can be drawn between the extremes of the country.

Government

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Municipal presidents

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Term Municipal president Political party Notes
1874[6] Domingo Macías Valadez
1875-1876 Pablo López
1877 Domingo Delgado
1878 Amado Ornelas
1879 Domingo Macías Valadez
1880-1882 Leonardo Quevedo
1883 Domingo Macías Valadez
1884 Felipe Alba
1885-1890 Domingo Macías Valadez
1891-1893 Santiago S. Cárdenas
1894-1895 Daniel V. Medina
1896-1897 J. Jesús Ruvalcaba
1898 Juan Aranda
1899 Domingo Macías López
1900 Joaquín Macías
1901-1902 Domingo Macías López
1903-1904 Salvador González
1908 Domingo Macías López
1909-1911 J. Jesús Ruvalcaba
1912 J. Refugio Delgadillo
1913 J. Jesús Ruvalcaba
1914-1916 Domingo Macías López
1917-1920 Ramón Díaz de León Medina
1921 Nicolás Mascorro López
1924-1926 J. Guadalupe Delgadillo
1927-1929 José Romo Martínez
1931-1934 Sebastián Arce Moreno PNR
1935 Alfonso Macías PNR
1936 Cipriano Romo Álvarez PNR
1937 Francisco Hernández PNR
1938-1939 J. Isabel Rodríguez Montoya PRM
1940 Manuel Torres PRM
1940 Juan Plascencia R. PRM
1941-1942 J. Isabel Rodríguez Montoya PRM
1943 Fortino Morales Olvera PRM
1944 Francisco González Delgado PRM
1945 J. Guadalupe Urzúa López PRM
1946 Joaquín Quevedo Martín del Campo PRI
1947-1948 Francisco González Delgado PRI
1949 Francisco Delgado Alférez PRI
1950 J. Jesús Quevedo Aranda PRI
1951-1952 José González Ortiz PRI
1953-1955 Francisco González Delgado PRI
1956-1958 J. Jesús Medina Moreno PRI
1959-1961 Antonio Macías Álvarez PRI
1962-1964 Francisco González Delgado PRI
1965-1967 Jesús Ibarra López PRI
1968-1970 Juan Plascencia Robledo PRI
1971-1973 J. Jesús Díaz de León González PRI
1974-1976 J. Refugio Calzada Plascencia PRI
1977-1979 Joaquín Ibarra Alcalá PRI
1980-1982 Francisco González Hernández PRI
1986-1988 Ángel Pérez Lozano PRI
1989-1992 Tomás Gómez Sánchez PRI
1992-1995 Rafael Marmolejo Amaya PRI
1995-1997 Salvador Vela Briones PRI
1998-2000 Marco Antonio Jasso Romo PRD
2001-2003 Benjamín Plascencia Gómez PRD
2004-2006 Juan César Contreras Macías PRI
01/01/2007-31/12/2009 Rafael Dávila González PRD
PT
01/01/2010-30/09/2012 José Gil Macías PAN
01/10/2012-30/09/2015 José de Jesús Tovar Gómez PRI
PVEM
Coalition "Compromise for Jalisco"
01/10/2015-31/03/2018[7] David González González PRI
PVEM
He applied for a temporary leave, to run for reelection, which he didn't get
31/03/2018-31/08/2018 Juan Carlos Jasso Romo PAN
PRD
Acting municipal president
01/09/2018-30/09/2018[8] David González González PRI
PVEM
Resumed
01/10/2018-04/03/2021[9] Marco Antonio Jasso Romo PAN
PRD
MC
He applied for a temporary leave, to run for reelection, which he got
05/03/2021-07/06/2021 Julio César Escalante Marmolejo PAN
PRD
MC
Acting municipal president
08/06/2021-30/09/2021 Marco Antonio Jasso Romo PAN
PRD
MC
Resumed
01/10/2021-30/09/2024[10] Marco Antonio Jasso Romo MC He was reelected on 06/06/2021

References

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  1. ^ "Bartleby".
  2. ^ "Instituto de Información Estadística y Geográfica. IIEG Jalisco. Ojuelos de Jalisco, Diagnóstico del Municipio (Institute of Statistical and Geographic Information. IIEG Jalisco. Ojuelos de Jalisco. Diagnosis of the Municipality)" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Camino Real de Tierra Adentro - World Heritage List". UNESCO. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
  4. ^ a b "The geographic center of Mexico". Geo-Mexico. 14 April 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  5. ^ Tony Burton (14 March 2008). "Did you know? Mexico has more than one geographic center". MexConnect. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Jalisco. Ojuelos de Jalisco" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Proceso electoral 2015. Anexo V. Ojuelos de Jalisco" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana del Estado de Jalisco. IEPC Jalisco. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Regresará a su cargo el alcalde de Ojuelos" (in Spanish). Notisistema. 28 August 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Proceso electoral 2018. Anexo 4. Ojuelos de Jalisco. Integración del Ayuntamiento" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana del Estado de Jalisco. IEPC Jalisco. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Proceso electoral 2021. Anexo 5. Integración de Cabildo" (in Spanish). In the indicated web page of the IEPC Jalisco, please scroll down to where it reads: Proceso electoral concurrente 2020-2021, and click on "IntegraciónAyuntamientos"; once a new "pop-up window" opens with an Excel File titled "IntegraciónAyuntamientos", click "Save" or "Download", and then open the Excel File; now, at the bottom left of that "Excel workbook" or page, use the right arrowhead or the ellipsis by clicking many times, until you find the "Excel workbook" titled "OJUELOS DE JALISCO", and click to open. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
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21°52′N 101°35′W / 21.867°N 101.583°W / 21.867; -101.583