Romita

Romita is a municipality inside the country of Guanajuato in Mexico. The historical facts of the metropolis of Romita have been misplaced throughout the Mexican Revolution performed via the Villistas. Information has been gathered by using Professor Jose Gomez Moncada, making the subsequent statistics public domain: In 1553, 7 households arrived on land close to the village of Silao.

At the start of 1832 with the growth of the population the petition became made to the government that a metropolis be erected in lands of the Hacienda de l. A. Laja. Thus, on April 29, 1832, Don Pascual Penaranda, owner of the aforementioned hacienda, Ignacio Maza Rivas, owner of the Hacienda de los Angeles Gavia de Rionda and Fray Manuel Almorrosta, a local friar, founded the town with the name of Romita de Liceaga , in honor of Mr. Jose Maria Liceaga, hero of the Mexican insurgency and a local of the Hacienda de los angeles Gavia.