Tultepec
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Tultepec is a city and municipality
located in State of Mexico, Mexico
. It lies directly north of the Federal District (Distrito Federal)
in the northeastern part of the State of Mexico. making it is part of the Greater Mexico City
urban area. The name comes from Náhuatl
meaning 'hill of the tule plant'. The census of 2005 reported a population of 57,586 for the city and 110,145 for the municipality as a whole.
s followed by the Otomi
s in the seventh century. After the Spanish Conquest, Tultepec was given to the conquistador Alonso Ávila, along with the current municipalities of Zumpango, Xaltocán
, Huehuetoca
, Coyotepec
, Teoloyucan
and others as part of the Encomienda
de Cuautitlán
. The modern town of Tultepec began to take shape around 1610 in the valley next to a small elevation called San Martín. Franciscan
s came to evangelize the new community, dedicating it to the Nativity of Holy Mary and constructing a temple in 1618. This temple, later a parish, was renovated between 1948 and 1955.
The town and municipality boast of a number of musicians and painters such as Hernesto Urbán Rodíguez (1894), Ricardo Vázquez Pineda (1894), Victor Manuel Urbán Silva (1894), Andrés Urbán (1870) and Prudenciano García (1880), as well as modern composers such as Victor Urbán Velasco, Gerardo Urbán Velásco, Francisco Vázquez García, Francisco Romero Linares, and J. Isabel Vázquez Solano. Better-known painters include Miguel Hernández Urbán, Joaquín González Romero, Margarito González Solano, Gregorio González Solano, and Albino Luna Sánchez. It is the home of a folk dance group that has toured the United States
and Europe
.
, animal feed, salt and tequezquite as well as domestic fowl and other small animals, mostly to be sold in Mexico City.
Nowadays, the pyrotechnics
industry is the major industry in Tultepec. Every year, the town throws a week long festival with fireworks competitions between various producers.
Many pioneers in pyrotechnics came from here including, Agustín, Miguel and Gregorio Fiesco (1880), José Solano Urbán (1900-1920) who revolutionized firework sets and castles, 1920 Felipe Reyes who worked on the colors red and yellow around 1920, Ángel Guadalupe Flores, who around 1920 invented star fireworks and sparklers as well a several types of rockets, Cirilo Sánchez (1920) who worked on aerostatic balloons, as well as Tomás Romero, Ángel Urbán Rivero, Marcos Romero, and Felipe Fiesco who innovated such things as the electric target, the spider bomb, and 2-figure wheels between 1930 and 1934.
The municipality is bordered by the municipalities of Nextlalpan
, Melchor Ocampo, Tultitlán, Coacalco and Cuautitlán. Most of the area is a plain with small hills, the largest of which is called Otzolotepec. Temperatures here range between 6 and 28°C but most of the ecosystems here have been destroyed due to urbanization.
The territory surrounding the town of Tultepec used to be much larger. The the current municipality took shape at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th when areas were split off to create the current municipality of Melchor Ocampo
. The municipal palace was constructed in 1870. Tultepec municipality currently has an area of 19.02 km² (7.344 sq mi). Another major town in the municipality is Santiago Teyahualco
.
Outside the main town, there is still some agricultural activity including the raising of animal feed, beans, corn, wheat and alfalfa
, and animals such as cattle and pigs; however, agricultural land is shrinking. There are over 79 manufacturing establishments in the municipality including Asfalto Industria and Nacional Constructora. Communities involved in the manufacture of fireworks also serve as tourist attractions.
Municipalities of Mexico
Municipalities are the second-level administrative division in Mexico . There are 2,438 municipalities in Mexico, making the average municipality population 45,616...
located in State of Mexico, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. It lies directly north of the Federal District (Distrito Federal)
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
in the northeastern part of the State of Mexico. making it is part of the Greater Mexico City
Greater Mexico City
Greater Mexico City refers to the conurbation around Mexico City, officially called Mexico City Metropolitan Area , constituted by the Federal District—itself composed of 16 boroughs—and 41 adjacent municipalities of the states of Mexico and Hidalgo...
urban area. The name comes from Náhuatl
Nahuatl
Nahuatl is thought to mean "a good, clear sound" This language name has several spellings, among them náhuatl , Naoatl, Nauatl, Nahuatl, Nawatl. In a back formation from the name of the language, the ethnic group of Nahuatl speakers are called Nahua...
meaning 'hill of the tule plant'. The census of 2005 reported a population of 57,586 for the city and 110,145 for the municipality as a whole.
The city
The area was first settled by the ChichimecaChichimeca
Chichimeca was the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to a wide range of semi-nomadic peoples who inhabited the north of modern-day Mexico and southwestern United States, and carried the same sense as the European term "barbarian"...
s followed by the Otomi
Otomi people
The Otomi people . Smaller Otomi populations exist in the states of Puebla, Mexico, Tlaxcala, Michoacán and Guanajuato. The Otomi language belonging to the Oto-Pamean branch of the Oto-Manguean language family is spoken in many different varieties some of which are not mutually intelligible.One of...
s in the seventh century. After the Spanish Conquest, Tultepec was given to the conquistador Alonso Ávila, along with the current municipalities of Zumpango, Xaltocán
Xaltocan, Tlaxcala
Xaltocan is in Xaltocan Municipality in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala.The name can mean either of two things in the Nahuatl language: either 'sandy ground of spiders' or 'where sand sowing'...
, Huehuetoca
Huehuetoca
Huehuetoca is a municipio in Mexico State, central Mexico, and also the name of its largest locality and municipal seat.-Name origins:...
, Coyotepec
Coyotepec
Coyotepec is a town and municipality in Mexico State in Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 12.30 km².As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 39,341....
, Teoloyucan
Teoloyucan, Mexico State
Teoloyucan is a city and municipality located in Mexico State, Mexico. It lies 45 km north of the Federal District in the northeastern part of the state of México, and is part of the Greater Mexico City urban area...
and others as part of the Encomienda
Encomienda
The encomienda was a system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the colonization of the Americas to regulate Native American labor....
de Cuautitlán
Cuautitlán
Cuautitlán is a city and municipality in the State of Mexico, just north of the northern tip of the Federal District within the Greater Mexico City urban area. The city has engulfed most of the municipality, making the two synonymous...
. The modern town of Tultepec began to take shape around 1610 in the valley next to a small elevation called San Martín. Franciscan
Franciscan
Most Franciscans are members of Roman Catholic religious orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. Besides Roman Catholic communities, there are also Old Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, ecumenical and Non-denominational Franciscan communities....
s came to evangelize the new community, dedicating it to the Nativity of Holy Mary and constructing a temple in 1618. This temple, later a parish, was renovated between 1948 and 1955.
The town and municipality boast of a number of musicians and painters such as Hernesto Urbán Rodíguez (1894), Ricardo Vázquez Pineda (1894), Victor Manuel Urbán Silva (1894), Andrés Urbán (1870) and Prudenciano García (1880), as well as modern composers such as Victor Urbán Velasco, Gerardo Urbán Velásco, Francisco Vázquez García, Francisco Romero Linares, and J. Isabel Vázquez Solano. Better-known painters include Miguel Hernández Urbán, Joaquín González Romero, Margarito González Solano, Gregorio González Solano, and Albino Luna Sánchez. It is the home of a folk dance group that has toured the United States
United States
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and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
Fireworks industry
In the past, when the town was still rural, the economy was based on products such as pulquePulque
Pulque, or octli, is a milk-colored, somewhat viscous alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey plant, and is a traditional native beverage of Mexico. The drink’s history extends far back into the Mesoamerican period, when it was considered sacred, and its use was limited to...
, animal feed, salt and tequezquite as well as domestic fowl and other small animals, mostly to be sold in Mexico City.
Nowadays, the pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound...
industry is the major industry in Tultepec. Every year, the town throws a week long festival with fireworks competitions between various producers.
Many pioneers in pyrotechnics came from here including, Agustín, Miguel and Gregorio Fiesco (1880), José Solano Urbán (1900-1920) who revolutionized firework sets and castles, 1920 Felipe Reyes who worked on the colors red and yellow around 1920, Ángel Guadalupe Flores, who around 1920 invented star fireworks and sparklers as well a several types of rockets, Cirilo Sánchez (1920) who worked on aerostatic balloons, as well as Tomás Romero, Ángel Urbán Rivero, Marcos Romero, and Felipe Fiesco who innovated such things as the electric target, the spider bomb, and 2-figure wheels between 1930 and 1934.
The municipality
As municipal seat, Tultepec has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: Guadalupe, Rancho el Cuquío, Maite (Granja Maite), San Antonio Xahuento, Rancho San Joaquín, Santiago Teyahualco, Rancho la Virgen, Ejido Tultepec, Rancho Nodín, Paraje Trigo Tenco, Ejido de Teyahualco, Hacienda Real de Tultepec, Unidad CTM San Pablo, Barrio de San Martín, Ejido San Pablito (Paraje San Pablito), Colonia las Brisas, La Rinconada, La Saucera, Cajiga (Ejido de Tultepec), El Progreso, Colonia la Aurora and Fraccionamiento Paseos de Tultepec II.The municipality is bordered by the municipalities of Nextlalpan
Nextlalpan
Nextlalpan is a town and municipality in Mexico State in Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 42.49 km².As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 22,507....
, Melchor Ocampo, Tultitlán, Coacalco and Cuautitlán. Most of the area is a plain with small hills, the largest of which is called Otzolotepec. Temperatures here range between 6 and 28°C but most of the ecosystems here have been destroyed due to urbanization.
The territory surrounding the town of Tultepec used to be much larger. The the current municipality took shape at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th when areas were split off to create the current municipality of Melchor Ocampo
Melchor Ocampo
Melchor Ocampo was a Mexican lawyer, scientist, and liberal politician.His home state was renamed Michoacán de Ocampo in his honour.-Studies:...
. The municipal palace was constructed in 1870. Tultepec municipality currently has an area of 19.02 km² (7.344 sq mi). Another major town in the municipality is Santiago Teyahualco
Santiago Teyahualco
Santiago Teyahualco is the second-largest town in the municipality of Tultepec in the state of México in Mexico. At the Mexican census of 2005 the town reported a population of 47,547 inhabitants.-References:...
.
Outside the main town, there is still some agricultural activity including the raising of animal feed, beans, corn, wheat and alfalfa
Alfalfa
Alfalfa is a flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae cultivated as an important forage crop in the US, Canada, Argentina, France, Australia, the Middle East, South Africa, and many other countries. It is known as lucerne in the UK, France, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, and known as...
, and animals such as cattle and pigs; however, agricultural land is shrinking. There are over 79 manufacturing establishments in the municipality including Asfalto Industria and Nacional Constructora. Communities involved in the manufacture of fireworks also serve as tourist attractions.