Aldama

The municipality of Aldama is located on the southeastern part of the State of Tamaulipas. It limits to the north with the municipality of Soto La Marina, to the south with Altamira, to the west with Casas and González and to the east with the Golf of Mexico. It is composed by 375 population centers and its municipality head is Aldama at an elevation of 90 masl. The municipality has three important rivers, the Tigre, the Barberena and the Carrizal, in addition with the República Española Dam, a.k.a. Presa del Sombrerito that is used for irrigation, recreation and fishing.

 

History

The Villa de Presa del Rey, also known as Villa Aldama, was founded on April 15th, 1790 under the Divina Pastora being the last that was founded by the Count of Sierra Gorda, Don Jose De Escandón y Helguera on the old province of Nuevo Santander, a.k.a. Tamaulipas. The original founders were 76 families from the Villas de Cruillas, San Fernando and Revilla (also known as Guerrero), establishing at the Mission de San Vicente del Platanal to reunite the panhuayes Indians of the Sierra de Maratines. On November 25th, 1828, by State Congress' decree it was given the name of Villa Aldama to honor the memory of Ignacio Aldama, one of the members of the Independence. Since its foundation, Villa Aldama has been witness of several moments of the history of Mexico like the visit of Don Joaquín Arredondo coming from Tampico in persecution of Miguel Hidalgo on 1811 and in 1817 was visited by Don Francisco Javier Mina coming from Soto La Marina and the French occupation that in 1865 set fire to the church of the Divina Pastora.

 

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