| Settlement Type: | City and municipality |
| Total Type: | City |
| Official Name: | Cadereyta Jiménez |
| Nickname: | Cadereyta |
| Mapsize: | 220px |
| Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Nuevo León |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Ernesto Jose Quintanilla Villarreal (PVEM-PRI) |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | August 13, 1637 |
| Area Total Km2: | 36.16 |
| Area Blank1 Title: | Municipality |
| Area Blank1 Km2: | 1141 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 census |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Population Total: | 75721 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Metro: | 5341177 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Municipality |
| Population Blank1: | 122337 |
| Population Density Blank1 Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | Central Standard Time |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | Central Daylight Time |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Coordinates: | 25.6°N -100°W |
| Elevation M: | 360 |
| Website: | http://www.cadereyta.gob.mx |
Cadereyta Jiménez is the name of a city as well as of a municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León.
The municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez is located in the central part of the state, 360 meters above sea level, at 25' 36" N latitude and 100' 00" W longitude. The municipality has a territorial extension of 1,141 km2 (441 sq mi). It borders the following municipalities, all of which are in the state of Nuevo León: to the north, Juárez and Pesquería; to the south, Allende, Montemorelos and General Terán; to the east, General Terán and Los Ramones; to the west, Juárez and Santiago. It is the most easterly municipality of the Monterrey metropolitan area.
The city of Cadereyta Jiménez, which is the seat of the municipality and its main population center had a 2005 census population of 56,552, the ninth-largest city in the state. However, within the municipality there are numerous other villages, the largest of which are: San Juan, Ejido Palmitos, La Calzada, El Alamito, Pueblo Nuevo, Cereso Cadereyta, Atongo de Abajo and Palmitos. The municipality had an official population of 73,746, also the ninth-largest in the state.
In 1692, after a great flood, the town was relocated to the left side of the Santa Catarina river, 4.5 kilometers from its original location. In 1762, authorities and residents requested permission from Gubernator Carlos de Velasco to move back to the right side of the river, as they were going through a decade-long drought, and the terrain made it difficult for them to move water from the river to the inhabited area. This move to the new site occurred in February 1763. On March 28, 1825, the State Congress, at the request of Gubernator Antonio Rodriguez Leal, recategorized the community as a city and renamed it Cadereyta Jimenez. Its original name honored the sixteenth viceroy of New Spain, don Lope Diaz de Armendariz, marquis of Cadereyta, and General Mariano Jimenez, precursor of the Independence of Nuevo Reino de Leon.Since 1638, the jurisdiction of the village San Juan Bautista de Cadereyta; Gubernator Zavala mark it from the west part until Tampico port. This enormous territory lasted until 1742, when the colony of Nuevo Santander (Tamaulipas) was founded. This colony was largely inhabited by people from Cadereyta.
José Santiago Preciado of the Partido Acción Nacional is currently the municipal president (executive or mayor).
Cadereyta Jiménez has one sister city.:[3]
The Church of San Juan Bautista (Saint John Baptist) was completed in 1788; it is in the Spanish Sevillan style.
On April 5, 1998, the grottos “El Mezcal” were accidentally discovered by Pablo Carrizales Gomes and Rodrigo Gomez, who initially discovered a grotto with a depth of 20 to 30 meters and a radius of 200 meters. Later Rodrigo Gomez and Mario Hidalgo de Leon discovered a second grotto, approximately 50 meters in ground, of sufficient size that one can walk around freely. Within the grottos there are formations of stalagmites and stalactites.
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