Corregidora is a municipality in extreme southwestern Querétaro, on the border with the state of Guanajuato. Its municipal seat is the town of El Pueblito ("little town"), which had a population of 44,305 in the 2005 census.
It is named after the alias of the Mexican heroine Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez.
It forms part of the metropolitan area of the city of Santiago de Queretaro.
In this territory area and population had different names according to...
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Corregidora is a municipality in extreme southwestern Querétaro, on the border with the state of Guanajuato. Its municipal seat is the town of El Pueblito ("little town"), which had a population of 44,305 in the 2005 census.
It is named after the alias of the Mexican heroine Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez.
It forms part of the metropolitan area of the city of Santiago de Queretaro.
In this territory area and population had different names according to the political and religious incidents.
In the precolonial era, according to some historians, this place was named "Tlachco" because the existence of a venue for the ball game, but sadly there are not written documents about it. So it can not be sure that this name is correct.
The limits of the señorío of "El Cerrito" (little hill) in the precolonial era extended beyond the natural barrier that surround the valley of "El pueblito" (little town), with mountains and hills; there are no important archaeological ruins inside of it, although with a...
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