Melchor Ocampo

Melchor Ocampo is a city and municipality in State of Mexico, Mexico. The municipality covers a place of 32.48 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a complete population of 37,706. From its founding till 1894, the municipality became known as Tlacomulco and then San Miguel Tlaxomulco; the latter portion comes from the Nahuatl phrases tlalli; xomolli and co of coztic, this is to mention, "In some nook of the earth" or "a touch nook of floor". In 1894, the legislature of the State of Mexico decreed that the area would be known as "Ocampo". Currently it's far known as Melchor Ocampo in honor of the deceased reformist flesh presser and philosopher of that name.

While the general location between Cuautitlan, Zumpango and Tepotzotlan changed into probably below human have an effect on from the Toltec length at the trendy, and perhaps as early as 2500 B.C., there may be no file of a settlement at the exact site of the cutting-edge municipality until after the Spanish conquest. In 1519 the location became below the tlatoani of Cuautitlan. In 1521 it got here beneath Spanish rule, when Cortez's forces "occupied it without resistance". After the conquest, the metropolis of Cuautitlan and the entirety that pertained to it, consisting of Tlaxomulco, was given as an encomienda to Alonso de Avila, considered one of Cortez's captains.