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Their name was given in honor to XIV Luis from France and it was added Potosí because it was compared with the rich mines of gold in Bolivia. San Luis Potosí is almost a prosperous state, the silver extraction it has ended, but mines of Zinc and Lead exist with a considerable industrial base. It is also a state located in the axis cartwright of the Treaty of Free Trade (TLC) (NAFTA).
In San Luis Potosí is cities that preserve its blended colonial charm with many of the attributes of a modern city; with hotel infrastructure, net highway, aeroportuaria, tourist and cultural.
San Luis Potosí, as city (capital of the State of the same name), it was founded November 3 1592. They are recognized as their founders to the captain Miguel Boiler, pacifier of the region, and to gift Juan of Oñate, first mayor. However, from years before the foundation of the city, they existed in the region small establishments of Indians evangelized by Brother Diego of the Magdalena, in some of the places that today is known as San Luis' neighborhoods, and later on they ended up knowing as towns or villages.
It is a city with more than four hundred years of history. In March of 1592 they were discovered the rich mines of gold and silver of San Pedro's near Hill, this peak originated the Foundation of San Luis' Town, Mines of the Potosí, November 3 1592. They sign the Records of Foundation the Captain Miguel Boiler and the first mayor Juan of Oñate.
The records of Foundation were discovered by the historian Feliciano Velázquez who donated it to the Regional Museum, where it is at the moment. The City grew quickly and it stops 1631 it was third o'clock in wealth and importance of the Viceroyalty, only after Mexico and Puebla.
The title of the City was granted him in 1656 for the Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque and confirmed by the King Felipe IV in 1658. The weapons that were given were a hill, that of San Pedro, a blue field and gold, with two silver bars in this and two of gold in that, and on the summit of the hill, San Luis' image, King from France. The original title of the City is in the historical file of the State.
The XVIII century was of prosperity, magnificent Temples rose like that of the Carmen, Aranzazu, etc., adorned with excellent paintings. An asset trade boiled and they multiplied the civil constructions, San Luis Potosí became the Capital of the North of the New Spain, because its jurisdiction understood what today is the States of Tamaulipas, New León and Coahuila, arriving to Louisiana and Texas.
Accomplished the Independence, San Luis is constituted in Free and Sovereign State, his first Constitution was sworn October 26 1826.
In 1863 and 1867, San Luis was Capital of the Republic. Here Juárez signed the sentence of death of Maximiliano. The time Porfiriana protected the peak of the City. For then magnificent buildings were built, San José's prey was made and the first railroad was inaugurated. When Francisco I. Madero lived prisoner in this City, it conceived "San Luis Plan" that the spark that began the Revolution of 1910 was.
In spite of this anachronic environment, the city configured its agreement appearance with the Spanish Renaissance pattern: the biggest Square to the center, and in their perimeter lightly rectangular apples, distributed between the civil power and the religious power, that is to say, the building of the Very Illustrious City council and the headquarters of the parochial authority.
However, during a lot of time San Luis' city Potosí was reduced to what today in day is known as the first square of the city. But they surrounded it the seven suburban villages, each one of those which enjoyed own autonomy and government, being distinguished of the other ones for their hermitage or church and their peculiar square or garden.
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