Valle de Allende

Valley of Allende is a populace of the Mexican kingdom of Chihuahua, located to the south of the state and head of the municipality of Allende. The area adjacent to the river referred to as the old town turned into named a World Heritage Site by using Unesco, on August 1, 2010 as part of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. Valle de Allende was founded in 1563 beneath the call of Valle de San Bartolome, which makes it the primary oldest metropolis in the country, which is accompanied with the aid of Santa Barbara.

It changed into founded by means of Franciscan missionaries on the right bank of the Valle de Allende River as a venture metropolis, the first of them within the territory of the present day state of Chihuahua and the first population of any type. Valle de Allende soon won fame in the vicinity for the fine of the fruits grown at the farms of the Spaniards ascending in the valley. On September 19, 1825, a decree of the Chihuahua Congress modified its call to Valle de Allende in honor of the Mexican Independence hero Ignacio Allende, shot in Chihuahua in 1811.