Pachuca

Pachuca officially Pachuca De Soto is a Mexican town, head of the homonymous municipality of Pachuca and capital of the kingdom of Hidalgo. It is placed 96 km north of Mexico City, positioned within the east vicinity of Mexico and inside the geographical vicinity of the state of Hidalgo referred to as Mining Region. Geographical coordinates correspond 20 ° 07 '18 "north latitude and 98 ° 44' 09" west longitude; except having an altitude among 2382 and 2400 meters above sea level. In the Sierra de Pachuca, inexperienced obsidian mines and arrowheads have been determined, in addition to scrapers of that material associated with substantial remains.

The first prehistoric explorers of the Sierra de Pachuca belonged to nomadic tribes that might be positioned closer to 4500 a. C.Forty five In 1050 the Otomies settled in the region, chronologically, the Chichimecas dominated later, whose non secular middle became Otomi speaking Xaltocan. Subsequently from 1174 to 1182, the Chichimecas of Xolotl based the Senorio de Cuauhtitlan, subordinated to Texcoco, threw the Otomies into the Mezquital Valley thru successive wars and consolidated their dominion in the area they known as Cuauhtlalpan, inside which Pachuca is left.