Meoqui

Meoqui is a city Named after General Pedro Meoqui and is the seat of the municipality of Meoqui, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2010, the municipality had a complete population of 22,574, up from 21,306 as of 2005. The community of Meoqui changed into founded as a Franciscan challenge city within the mid 17th century.

In 1709, Fray Andres Ramirez, a missionary of San Francisco de Asis and the recognized founder of Meoqui, arrived from San Antonio de Julimes as a part of a larger effort to Christianize the Indians alongside the San Pedro River and started the development and colonization of the vicinity alongside the San Pablo River, then inhabited with the aid of indigenous Conchos, Julimes, Navichames and Mezquites. The region was subject to the rule of the local navy presidios from the quit of the 17th Century till 1773, while the Military Presidio of San Pablo changed into established. In 1771, Irish soldier and Commander Hugo O'Conor, who had served in the Spanish Royal Army in view that 1750 and had outstanding himself as a navy strategist in numerous of the Spanish colonies, was appointed Captain and assigned to the northern frontier of New Spain.