El Salto (El Salto)
El Salto is a city, and the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the central region of the Mexican state of Jalisco.
The municipality covers a surface of area of 41.50 km2 with a population of 138,226. It is surrounded, in a clockwise direction from the north, by the municipalities of Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Juanacatlán, and Tlajomulco de Zúñiga. It was created on 22 December 1943, with its excision from the municipality of Juanacatlán.
In 1530, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico, Hernán Cortés, commissioned Nuño de Guzmán to conquer "inland". This part to the conquest of the kingdom of Michoacán, venturing to conquer new lands was launched towards the West. Thus, on 20 January, 1530, the expedition crosses the Lerma river through Cuitzeo and walking northwest, appears in front of Tonalá on 24 March, taking possession of the village, one of the largest in the region, leaving the entire region subjugated to the Spanish kingdom. The next day, 25 March, Nuño de Guzmán, takes possession in the name of the King of Spain from the regions south of the Santiago River and north and west of Lake Chapala, reserving for himself the title of entrustment, taking over the Valleys of Toluquilla and Tonalá. Diego de Porres Baranda, one of the richest men in Nueva Galicia who had acquired his first lands in the Cocula Valley in 1580 and had become one of the most important food suppliers of Guadalajara in the first decade of the century XVII, in a real hearing held on 30 February, 1606, receives a Mayorazgo according to the command agreed by the President of the Royal Audience Don Alonso Pérez Mechana, in which he was granted "a place of stay for small and five cattle Knights of land in the jurisdiction of the town and Santa Fe Valley, between this and Juanacatlán. In the seventeenth century the Toluquilla hacienda extended from the town of Analco to the waterfall of El Salto de Juanacatlán and was one of the largest estates belonged to the Company of Jesus or Jesuitas, religious institute of clergy . In June 1767, the King Carlos III, promulgates his Royal Decree, where he expels all the clerics of the Company of Jesus, Spanish Territory, leaving the Treasury of Toluquilla in the hands of Mr. Francisco Javier de Vizcarra, first Marquis of Pánuco. In 1818, the existence of the "Jesús María" estate is recorded. The hacienda had a very special characteristic, there was the famous Juanacatlán Falls, an impressive waterfall that the large river of Santiago makes in this place. That fall that reached almost twenty meters high and whose curtain was over a hundred and thirty meters long. In 1836, Don Francisco Martínez Negrete Ortiz de Rozas, a Basque immigrant from Lanestosa, Viscaya region in Spain and a very important merchant from the era in Guadalajara, acquires the Treasury of "El Castillo". The lands are transformed into irrigation lands taking advantage of the waters of the Rio Grande Santiago and planting cane, chickpea and alfalfa. On the left bank of the Rio Grande Santiago, near the water fall, a trapiche moved by animal force was installed and the water was channeled to irrigate the cane grooves. Once the product was finished, it was transported to Guadalajara in carts pulled by oxen. This place was called the farm "El Molino". With the ranch "El Castillo" and later the Hacienda de "Jesús María", the ranch "La Azucena" and the Hacienda de "El Molino" formed what is now known as El Salto. When Francisco Martínez Negrete Ortiz de Rozas dies, the estates with an extension of 12,319 hectares are inherited by his eldest daughter María Dolores Martínez Negrete y Alba, married to José María Bermejillo Ybarra, a prosperous merchant and Spanish businessman from the town of Balmaseda in the Viscaya region in Spain.
The municipality covers a surface of area of 41.50 km2 with a population of 138,226. It is surrounded, in a clockwise direction from the north, by the municipalities of Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Juanacatlán, and Tlajomulco de Zúñiga. It was created on 22 December 1943, with its excision from the municipality of Juanacatlán.
In 1530, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico, Hernán Cortés, commissioned Nuño de Guzmán to conquer "inland". This part to the conquest of the kingdom of Michoacán, venturing to conquer new lands was launched towards the West. Thus, on 20 January, 1530, the expedition crosses the Lerma river through Cuitzeo and walking northwest, appears in front of Tonalá on 24 March, taking possession of the village, one of the largest in the region, leaving the entire region subjugated to the Spanish kingdom. The next day, 25 March, Nuño de Guzmán, takes possession in the name of the King of Spain from the regions south of the Santiago River and north and west of Lake Chapala, reserving for himself the title of entrustment, taking over the Valleys of Toluquilla and Tonalá. Diego de Porres Baranda, one of the richest men in Nueva Galicia who had acquired his first lands in the Cocula Valley in 1580 and had become one of the most important food suppliers of Guadalajara in the first decade of the century XVII, in a real hearing held on 30 February, 1606, receives a Mayorazgo according to the command agreed by the President of the Royal Audience Don Alonso Pérez Mechana, in which he was granted "a place of stay for small and five cattle Knights of land in the jurisdiction of the town and Santa Fe Valley, between this and Juanacatlán. In the seventeenth century the Toluquilla hacienda extended from the town of Analco to the waterfall of El Salto de Juanacatlán and was one of the largest estates belonged to the Company of Jesus or Jesuitas, religious institute of clergy . In June 1767, the King Carlos III, promulgates his Royal Decree, where he expels all the clerics of the Company of Jesus, Spanish Territory, leaving the Treasury of Toluquilla in the hands of Mr. Francisco Javier de Vizcarra, first Marquis of Pánuco. In 1818, the existence of the "Jesús María" estate is recorded. The hacienda had a very special characteristic, there was the famous Juanacatlán Falls, an impressive waterfall that the large river of Santiago makes in this place. That fall that reached almost twenty meters high and whose curtain was over a hundred and thirty meters long. In 1836, Don Francisco Martínez Negrete Ortiz de Rozas, a Basque immigrant from Lanestosa, Viscaya region in Spain and a very important merchant from the era in Guadalajara, acquires the Treasury of "El Castillo". The lands are transformed into irrigation lands taking advantage of the waters of the Rio Grande Santiago and planting cane, chickpea and alfalfa. On the left bank of the Rio Grande Santiago, near the water fall, a trapiche moved by animal force was installed and the water was channeled to irrigate the cane grooves. Once the product was finished, it was transported to Guadalajara in carts pulled by oxen. This place was called the farm "El Molino". With the ranch "El Castillo" and later the Hacienda de "Jesús María", the ranch "La Azucena" and the Hacienda de "El Molino" formed what is now known as El Salto. When Francisco Martínez Negrete Ortiz de Rozas dies, the estates with an extension of 12,319 hectares are inherited by his eldest daughter María Dolores Martínez Negrete y Alba, married to José María Bermejillo Ybarra, a prosperous merchant and Spanish businessman from the town of Balmaseda in the Viscaya region in Spain.
Map - El Salto (El Salto)
Map
Country - Mexico
Currency / Language
| ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
|---|---|---|---|
| MXV | Mexican Unidad de Inversion | 2 | |
| MXN | Mexican peso | $ | 2 |
| ISO | Language |
|---|---|
| ES | Spanish language |