Apaseo el Grande
| Apaseo el Grande | ||
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Palacio de Herrera
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| Motto: Et Campi tui Replebentur Ubetate | ||
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| Country |
 Mexico
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 Guanajuato
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| Foundation | June 24, 1536 | |
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| • Mayor | Lorenzo Licea Rojas (PRI) 2012-2015 | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 415.26 km2 (160.33 sq mi) | |
| Population | 85,319 | |
| Demonym(s) | Apaseense | |
| Código INEGI | 005 | |
| Website | www |
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Apaseo el Grande is a Mexican city and municipality located in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. The municipality is a total of 415.26 square kilometres (1.37% of the surface of the state). It is bordered on the north by Comonfort and San Miguel de Allende, on the east by Querétaro, on the south by Apaseo el Alto, and on the west by Celaya. The municipality had a population of 85,319 inhabitants according to the 2010 census.
In pre-Columbian times, the region was known as Andahe ("Close to the water") and Atlayahualco ("Place of where water flows") by the Otomí and Nahua inhabitants. It was eventually known as Apatzeo ("Yellow flower") by the Purépecha. It received its present name of Apaseo el Grande in 1525 after the Spanish conquered the country. It was the first city to be founded in what is now the state of Guanajuato.
The municipal president of Apaseo el Grande and its many smaller outlying communities is Lorenzo Licea Rojas.
The name of the town and municipality was initially Apatzeo, first used by Hernán Pérez de Bocanegra y Córdoba, who was apparently influenced by the expression in the Purépecha language whose meaning is "Place of Weasels".
Other names of the city of Apaseo el Grande were Andehe (in the Otomi language) which appears in an inscription that is in the choir of the parish church and means "by the water." Another name, used by the viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, is Atlayahualco, from the Nahuatl language, meaning "by the lake".
On February 22, 1957, the Legislature of the State of Guanajuato ordered the publication in the Official Gazette of the State of Guanajuato, Decree Number 64, by which the city and the municipality of Apaseo took the nickname Apaseo el Grande ("greater" or "larger"). This change was intended to resolve conflicts caused by the use of the nickname Apaseo el Bajo ("Lower Apaseo") by residents of the smaller neighboring town of Apaseo el Alto ("Upper Apaseo").
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