Ixmiquilpan

Ixmiquilpan is a town positioned inside the municipality of Ixmiquilpan inside the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. The Otomies have been the primary inhabitants of the strategic area, being an herbal passage among the arid plains of northern Mexico. The place became conquered through Pedro Rodriguez de Escobar who had served beneath Pedro de Alvarado, but the foundation of the city of Ixmiquilpan is the muse through the Spanish Augustinian friars of the Temple and ex Convent of San Miguel Arcangel among 1550 and 1560, subsequent to the primary square today.

Already inside the 17th century the city has an considerable population, which suggests the construction of the bridge over the river Tula, work undertaken with the aid of the Spanish captain Don Miguel Cuevas and Davalos and inaugurated on September 29, 1655, day of San Miguel Arcangel , customer of the church and the humans. The viceregal bridge communicated with the Barrio de Los Angeles Otra Banda, now Barrio de Progreso. In the 18th century, at the initiative of the mestizo Patricio Joseph Tovar, the Chapel of the Lady of Carmen becomes built in the antique community of Tlazintla.