Escobedo

General Escobedo is a municipality and commercial town of Nuevo Leon, part of the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey. It borders to the north with the municipalities of Hidalgo and El Carmen, to the south with Monterrey and San Nicolas de los Garza, to the east with Apodaca, and to the west with Garcia and the Municipality of Santa Catarina Nuevo Leon. The call of the town is in honor of the winner of the second intervention of the French Empire, General Mariano Escobedo. The first proprietor of the land where the municipality is located turned into Captain Jose de Trevino, on April 25, 1604 receiving the mercy from the Governor Don Diego de Monte mayor.

For which Captain Jose de Trevino is taken into consideration the founder. But it is his son José de Ayala the definitive settler, to establish in these lands that he inherited from his father, the Topo Hacienda of San Nicolas Tolentino and that eventually might be recognized with the aid of the call of Topo de los Ayala or Topo Grande, to Do no longer confuse it with Topo de los Gonzalez or Topo Chico.