Juan Aldama

Juan Aldama is a metropolis inside the northwest of the kingdom of Zacatecas, Mexico. It is the biggest network and the municipal seat of the Municipality of Juan Aldama. The entity becomes named in honor of the Mexican rebel Juan Aldama. It becomes based by using 40 Tlaxcalteca households in southern Mexico, who with the permission of King Felipe II, and in New Spain the Viceroy Don Alvaro Manrrique, gave permission for them to colonize the region.

Juan Aldama changed into known by using different names: San Juan Bautista del Mezquital and Villa Arechiga. It presently has 20,543 inhabitants in step with census. In 1591 this town turned into based by using Tlaxcalteca families beneath the command of the mestizo Captain Miguel Caldera, on lands belonging to the hacienda de Melilla, property of Francisco Pimentel, local of Melilla, Spain. There were already settlements of indigenous Zacatecas in diverse parts of the location. Two towns had been based at that point, one referred to as the Mezquital and the alternative 8 leagues far from the primary one, known as Santiago, named after Santiaguillo or Santiaguito.