Santa Cruz de Rosales

Santa Cruz de Rosales is a population of the Mexican country of Chihuahua, placed within the middle of the same and head of the municipality of Rosales.

The Rosales region, shaped by way of the center and decrease reaches of the San Pedro River, changed into evangelized by using Franciscan missionaries at some point of the 17th century who settled most of the indigenous Conchos and founded the challenge of San Pedro de Conchos in 1649; in 1714 the Franciscans based what today is Rosales with the name of Santa Cruz de Tapacolmes in the neighborhoods of what's now the city of Delicias, the population staying in that vicinity till the year of 1753 that was relocated to its contemporary region, the grounds in which it became based were donated by way of the sergeant principal Juan Antonio Trasvina and Retes and being governor of the Nueva Vizcaya Manuel de San Juan and Santa Cruz; acquired the epithet of Tapacolmes by using the Indians that Trasvina and Retes delivered from the vicinity that today is Ojinaga to populate it.