Tamazula de Victoria

City in the Mexican state of Durango

Municipal seat and city in Durango, Mexico

Seal

24°58′12″N 106°57′56″W / 24.97000°N 106.96556°W / 24.97000; -106.96556Country

MexicoStateDurangoMunicipalityTamazulaGovernment

• Municipal PresidentRicardo Ochoa BeltranElevation

245 m (804 ft)Population

(2010)

• Total2,337Time zoneUTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Postalcode

34580

Websitehttp://www.tamazuladgo.gob.mx/index.html

Tamazula de Victoria is a small town and seat of the municipality of Tamazula in the Mexican state of Durango. The town is located approximately 53 mi (85 km) east of the city center of Culiacán, Sinaloa, in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains. The Tamazula River crescents directly north of the city.

Colloquially known as Tamazula, its official name is Tamazula de Victoria after the first president of Mexico's adopted last name was added. General Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of Mexico, and his brother Francisco Victoria were born in Tamazula. As of 2010, the town had a population of 2,337^[1]

History

In the seventeenth century, Jesuit missionaries founded Mission San Ignacio de Tamazula.^[2]

Villages

The municipal subdivisions of Tamazula are:

Amaculi
Los Remedios
El Chicural
El Cocoyole
Chacala
El Llano
El Comedero
Las Juntas
Las Quebradas
El Río
Pueblo Viejo
El Carrizo
Otatitlán
Las Coloradas
Santa Elena
El Cajón
La Mesa del Rodeo
El Durazno
La Alameda
Santa Gertrudis
El Tecuán
Santa Barbara
Cuesta Blanca

Gallery

Cactus Cardon Guajiro and Corn at Sunset after a summer thunderstorm in Tamazula, Durango
Hillside view looking East
Templo San Ignacio de Layola Catholic Church
Interior view of San Ignacio de Layola Catholic Church altar in 2013
1786 Birthplace and childhood home of Guadalupe Victoria. Now a museum

References

^ "Tamazula". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^ Deeds, Susan M. (1 August 2003). Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya. University of Texas Press. pp. 57–58, 161. ISBN 978-0-292-70551-7.