Old Cuervo Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

sanmann: Archiving Old Cuervo after many years.

Simply tired of the amount of maintenance necessary to keep it up.

Thanx for the fun!

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Hidden : 1/23/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


In April 1706 Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdez, 28th colonial governor, founded an administrative unit or villa which he named San Francisco de Alburquerque in honor of Don Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva Enriquez, Duque de Alburquerque, the 34th viceroy of New Spain, and resident in Mexico City.

The viceroy, fearing the displeasure of King Philip V of Spain because the new villa had not been authorized by him, changed the name to San Felipe de Alburquerque, in honor of the king.

The new villa in what is now Old Town was founded on the edge of meadows of the Rio Grande at a place where the river could be forded by ox carts and near good pasturage and timber.

BYOP.

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