As part of the celebration of 123 anniversary of the founding Virtual Tijuana, the historian Gabriel Delgado Rivera gave the talk "When Tijuana
was called Zaragoza City" in the multipurpose room of the Centro Cultural Tijuana, accompanied by Mario Torres Cordova. The director of the Historical
Archives of Tijuana said that after a series of presidential decrees the heirs of Don Santiago Arguello, former owner of the ranch is now Tijuana,
should segment their land, resulting in an urban design reflected in the foreground was the city, designed by engineer Ricardo Orozco in 1889, where
he gives the name of the People of Zaragoza and is considered the virtual birth of what is today the border city. stressed that the importance of this
plane is given by the stroke, then avant-garde, which was given to the city, because unlike the other colonial cities whose development was based on a
plinth, surrounded by major government buildings and religious temples , in the town of Zaragoza scored an urban design around what was then the
custom with marked diagonals forming large diamonds. These early settlements were flooded by heavy rains and the overflowing Tijuana River, while
Argüello family faced serious divisions that led to a long dispute over their land, which led to the division into two parts of the ranch then Tijuana
had an extension of 10.533 hectares, the northern boundary and the boundary line, and the southern contained the hot water springs (where now stands
the High "Lazaro Card##as").
This litigation culminated in this division and the signing of the demarcation of land, just the 11 July 1889, when it was taken as the foundation
Tijuana virtual and as such is celebrated since 1977 to date. With the further development of the city were removed at the marked diagonal Orozco and
today there is hardly a trace in what was Arguello Avenue, now a Plaza Santa Cecilia. Rivera Delgado said that only a few documents, and the plane
Orozco is no record of the reference to Tijuana as the People of Zaragoza, including some invitations to social events, and the birth of Rebecca
Hernandez born on June 26, 1926 and at the table next to the speakers. He explained also that the level of the people of Zaragoza was reflected only
an area of 2900 x 2400 meters they contained a total of 393 blocks, and these were marketed in the real estate boom was from 1889. In that document,
which is considered the birth of the city, a certified copy is on display at the Museum of the Californias Cecut in the module that corresponds to
Tijuana his past, located in the last third of the historical tour offered by the site. For his part, Mario Cordova told decreed that prohibition in
the United States during the 20 black spins sought a solution that met at the border and Tijuana was the exception, it was installed a number of
nightclubs that brought a strong hand and tourism after the end of the war came to industrial and commercial boom which in turn attracted visitors in
search of places to spend their money. recalled that the second historical period in which Tijuana called Zaragoza City took place in 1925, when
President Plutarco Elias Calles issued a decree imposing the name of the hero of the Battle of Puebla, but the population is not adopted, whichever is
Tijuana, so a new decree restored in 1929, the original name. These and a few other details were the essence of this discussion where those present
were able to admire the projection of a series of old photographs left to see the old Tijuana, its inhabitants, its streets and even some of the first
donkeys, even without stripes, where people took the picture from memory.
Particularly in the context of the 123 anniversary of the founding of Tijuana, which has joined the Cecut a series of activities. In this celebratory
program integrates the cycle "Tijuana through film" Friday 13 projecting the movie "Sleep Dealer" at 18:00 and Sunday 15 with "Night Train", at the
same time, in the room Carlos Monsivais.
[Edited on 7-13-2012 by Ken Cooke]Cyanide41 - 7-14-2012 at 08:01 AM
