Pénjamo
Sign in to savePénjamo (, "place of ahuehuetes") is a city in Guanajuato, Mexico. It is the seat of Pénjamo municipality. It was cofounded in 1549 by Guamares, Purépechas, and Otomis prior to the outbreak of the Chichimeca war.
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- Pénjamo, Guanajuato
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- Monument to Hidalgo and San Francisco temple in the main square of Pénjamo
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- Cuna de Hidalgo
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- Mexico Guanajuato#Mexico
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- Pénjamo
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- Country
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- Mexico
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- Federal entity
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- Guanajuato
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- Founded
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- 12 November 1542
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- Yozajamby Molina (MORENA)
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Pénjamo (, "place of ahuehuetes") is a city in Guanajuato, Mexico. It is the seat of Pénjamo municipality. It was cofounded in 1549 by Guamares, Purépechas, and Otomis prior to the outbreak of the Chichimeca war.
The city is located in the southwest of Guanajuato, and accounts for a total of 164,261.27 hectares of land, or 5.20% of the total land in the state. It borders the municipalities of Abasolo, Cuerámaro, and Manuel Doblado and the states of Jalisco and Michoacán. According to the 2000 census, the total population of the municipality was 144,426; however, in the last census, conducted in 2010, the total population of the city was near 41,000, the majority of which devotes themselves to the services, trade, tourist services. The motto of the city is "Cradle of Hidalgo" (), because in 1753, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, known as the Father of the Nation, was born in the hacienda of Corralejo near the city.