Montemorelos

Montemorelos is a city and surrounding municipality of 53,854 inhabitants located in the Northern Mexican state of Nuevo León, in the valley of the Pilon River. It was named after its founder. Captain Luis Migue, better known as MIKI owned a large tract of land in central Nuevo León and distributed his large estate to his children in the Valley of the Pilon River, one of his children, General Alonso of Leon established his property in the North margin of the Pilón river and named it "Nuestra Señora de la Regla" in 1665, causing fast development of the property. The residents asked for the intervention of the Bishop of Guadalajara so that the owners of the property donate a piece of land to raise a church. In the year of 1665 San Mateo...