General Cepeda

General Cepeda is a metropolis inside the Mexican state of Coahuila de Zaragoza, positioned in the southeast of the nation; it is the pinnacle of the municipality of General Cepeda. Specifying an exact date of basis for the population of General Cepeda is tough due to the fact its agreement befell thru a complicated process of development of the area.

The first signs of settlement inside the location are 20,000 years vintage and encompass petroglyphs and remains like arrowheads; the advent of the Spanish colonizers passed off inside the year of 1568, while Francisco Cano explored the place arriving at the exact place where General Cepeda is today, in this area he found a lagoon that he named Laguna de Nuevo Mexico and which these days is called Laguna of Ducks. Soon all that territory changed into constituted by the Spanish crown because the Marquisate of San Miguel de Aguayo, which became one in all the most important latifundia in the global, the middle of the latifundio from which it was administered changed into the hacienda of San Francisco de los Patos located wherein today is General Cepeda and immediately antecedent of the populace.