Tepic Territory

Tepic Territory Territorio de Nayarit
1884–1917
Capital	Tepic
Common languages	Spanish and others
Demonym	Tepicense
Government	Territory of Mexico
Jefe político del Territorio de Tepic
Historical era	Porfiriato era
• Separation of the territory from Jalisco	12 December 1884
•	12 December 1884
•	1917
• Statehood	1917
Succeeded by Nayarit
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The territory of Tepic was a territory created out of the northwestern territory of the state of Jalisco to create present-day Nayarit.

History

The territory was created by decree of President Manuel González Flores on 12 December 1884. Its first political leader was Leopoldo Romano. While this general and his successor, Paul Rocha y Portu (1897-1904), were in office, great industrial and agricultural progress was made. Coffee was cultivated in the villages of Huicicila, Malinal, El Llano, Mecatán, Jalcocotán and Cora; cotton from Santiago Ixcuintla and Tuxpan supplied to factories in Jauja and Bellavista.

Within the industrial sector, the sugar mills in Puga and La Escondida saw a great economic boost. Cigar of Tepic's cigars and cigarettes were considered top quality worldwide. Other cigar factories were Traffic and El Amigo del Pueblo.

At the end of the government of Leopoldo Romano, workers' struggles began. In 1894, Francisca Quintero organized a work stoppage in the textile factory of Bellavista . Two years later, there was a strike in Jauja, and in 1905, the brothers Elias headed another in Bellavista.

At the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution, the population of Ixtlán del Río was among the first to take up arms, shouting Long live Madero!

In 1911, General Martin Espinosa defeated Porfirian forces, entered Tepic on May 26 of that year, and was immediately appointed political chief, replacing Mariano Ruiz (1904-1911). After the coup led by Victoriano Huerta, Espinosa was overthrown, and huertista Jesus Lopez de Haro appointed to replace him. Lopez two months later resigned in favor of fellow huertista, Agustin F. Migoni, who remained in power for five months and was succeeded by Domingo Servin, the last huertista political leader. That year, 1913, troops of Rafael Buelna and Isaac Espinosa entered the territory. Servin was overthrown and the young Buelna named. However, months later he was replaced by Juan Dozal. In 1915 the conflict began between Villa and constitutionalists. The discord reached this territory, Dozal was overthrown and replaced with general Juan Carrasco, who left power two months later, succeeded by Ernesto Damy, who in turn left power in the hands of General Juan Torres Sur (1915-1917). During the latter's administration there was no fighting and the country began to recover. In 1916, the first labor union was created.

The tepicenses sent Juan Espinosa Bávara, Cristóbal Limón, and Marcelino Cedano, to the Constitutional Congress of Queretaro, where the transformation of the Territory of Tepic, was decreed Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit.

Culture

In poetry, they highlighted Amado Nervo, Antonio Zaragoza, Quirino Ordaz and Solón Argüello. The music could not be outdone, being Manuel Uribe and Alejandro Manzo, the leading composers of the territory. The latter was the author of Las Mananitas Tepiqueñas and Aires Nayaritas .