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Apaseo el Grande is a Mexican city (and municipality) located in the state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 415.26 square kilometres (1.37% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by Comonfort and San Miguel de Allende, to the east by the state of Querétaro, to the south by Apaseo el Alto, and to 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 upon conquest by the Spaniards. 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.〔(Presidencia Municipal de Apaseo el Grande, Gto. - Salvador Oliveros Ramírez )〕 == Etymology == 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 Purépecha language whose meaning is "Place of Weasels". Other names of the present city of Apaseo el Grande were Andehe (in the Otomi language) which appears in an inscription that is placed 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"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apaseo el Grande」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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