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On April 12th of this year the 182nd anniversary of the Repopulation of Tampico or better yet the foundation of Tampico as is known today by people from Altamira was celebrated. We say Tampico was founded but some historians differ and assert that the city was “repopulated” even when the city’s official records use the term foundation, it is known that in ancient times there were inhabitants in the region but as of today there have not been found hard proof although there was a Tampico Huasteco that exited many years before the arrival of the Spaniards.
The foundation or repopulation of this city took place at a moment crucial for the history of our country since it is in 1823 when Antonio López de Santa Anna rebels against the monarchy of Agustin de Iturbide and proclaim the Plan de Casamata forcing Iturbide to abdicate his throne on March 19th. Some time after, López de Santa Anna passes through Altamira and it is when a group of inhabitants of that city request his permission to populate this part of the region and found a new customs office since the nearest one was in Pueblo Viejo and they did not have any control over it. On April 11th, 1823, a group of people from Villa de Altamira went to the Alto de Tampico through an old road a.k.a. La Herradura starting a new life for themselves. In front of the ancient temple of stone, Don Juan de Villaroto, mayor of the municipality of Villa de Altamira and Felipe de Lagos a member of the city council testified of this enterprise by recording the list of the emigrants composed by 25 “primitive” inhabitants and 32 aggregated ones. The first inhabitants or “pobladores primitivos” where: Cayetano Quintero, Messrs Teja Lastra, Don José Antonio Quintero, Don Juan Benito de Castilla, Don Felipe Hedera, Don Antonio García Jiménez, Don Gabriel Quintero, Don José María de la Cruz, Don José Antonio Boeta, Don Romualdo Segovia, Don José Vicente Pérez, Don Benito Bustelo, Don Felipe Andrade, Don José de la Lastra, Don Manuel de Galdames, Don Juan Ruiseñor, Don Miguel García, Don Ignacio Sánchez, Don Domingo Vázquez, Don Mariano Andrade, Don Antonio Roldan y Sedeño, Don Felipe de Lagos, Don Antonio Pilar Valdez y Don Juan Escobar.
The aggregated inhabitants are: Don Sabino Sánchez, Don Juan de Villatoro, Don Antonio Mariño, Don Néstor Gallegos, Don Manuel Arana, Don Pedro Serna, priest Don José Ignacio Echavarría, Don José de la Dahesa, Don Vicente de la Torre, Don Guadalupe Cardona, Don Domingo Arbel, Don José Ma. Jerez, Monsieur Jaquet, Monsieur Pulen, ironsmith Lucas Olmo, Don Francisco Delgado, Doña Rosalía Alarcón, Don Agustín Cuortel, Monsieur Rapen, Don Juan Mariño, Don Cristóbal González, Don Marcelino Clemente, Don Rafael Quintero, Don Francisco Roade, Don José María Boeta, Don Félix Benavides and Don Santiago Hereda. Initially the primitive inhabitants received two pieces of land and the aggregated ones only one. Some time later, the boundaries of Tampico were set extending it to half the distance to the nearest towns. To start the town’s blueprints, 30 “varas” were measured from the limits of the gully, a lead marker from where a line was traced from east to west and from south to north forming a square. After this, the blueprints for the Plaza Mayor or Main Square were made with 100 varas square, after this the docks with the same measurements and fooling 18 blocks of 100 varas each one, leaving between them a 15 varas wide space. A square was reserved for the church leaving in the corner an empty space of 25 varas front by 50 varas depth as well as some other spaces for housing, later all remaining blocks were divided in 8 land spaces of the same measures and were then numbered to continue with their assignment. From April 12th the mayor of Altamira takes charge of the public affairs for the new city, Don Juan de Villatoro, it is not until August 3rh 1824, when instructions were received from the governor of the State, Don Enrique Camilo Suárez to select 5 people among the inhabitants to elect a Mayor for the new city, same that after taking official sworn of his new position on August 30th of the same year covering a period of only 4 months. The first half of 1824 was irrelevant until November when a new law was voted that assigned Tampico the category of port and during the same time a decree from President Don Guadalupe Victoria makes Tampico available for foreign trade over Pueblo Viejo, and in February 10th 1827 the approval for a new customs office is received. On January 1825, new elections took place being elected Don Romualdo Antonio Segovia as the second mayor of Tampico. He then writes the first 22 municipal guidelines that form the legal background that allows for the orderly and institutional development of the city a.k.a. “Bando de policía y buen gobierno”. On March of the same year the ceremony for the inauguration of the first catholic temple takes place at the same location that today is occupied by the cathedral, other important public works are done as the local jail, a new road from Tampico to Altamira and a market on the margins of the river. Tampico had now 1,500 inhabitants. On December 15th, 1826 Tampico is officially designated as city by the Congress of the State of Tamaulipas receiving an Arm’s shield by decree of November 24th, 1828 that is currently in use.
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Articles from our 14th Edition Tampico, victim of Pirates, Bucaneers, and Privateers
León Trotsky in Tampico
New Street Names
Tampico Wakeboard City
Tajín Summit
Convention Center
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