Turs Lerma

In the days of the spiritual conquest cacamilhuacan this site was imposed the name of Santa Clara, and later Martin Reolín Varejón was a wealthy Spanish choose to found a city on the site known as Santa Clara, which was later called Lerma, in honor of the Duke of Lerma Spain.

SHIELD

Consistent with the order dated December 10, 1612, issued by the Viceroy Don Diego Fernandez de Cordova Gualdácazar Márques of the coat of arms of Lerma was approved in the minutes of council by H. City Council on May 10, 1971, and which contains:

At the top: The crown of the house of Austria, which is in the arms of Philip III.

Orla with a sign that read " Reolín Founder"

Green field of Lerma and Red Band sauteed with five blue stars on it, the Marquis of Gualdácazar Arms.

The castles that are in the Shield of Philip III.

Two golden lions that support in Shield.

At the bottom of this legend:  Lerma City"

HISTORY

Historical Review

Of the former settlers settled in the original territory, we found the family otomíana which consider only three: Otomi, Mazahua, and Matlatzincas.

The main inhabitants of much of the territory that originally occupied the State of Mexico, were the Nahua, of whose language are derived most of the names of the prehistoric peoples of our organization, they still remain.

Lerma is located in the Valley of Tollocan Tolocan correctly, there are no reliable references corroborate the Toluca Valley, Valley Nepintahihui Matlatzinco or until the time of the colony was occupied by the morass of Chicnahuapan (today Lerma), covering Xonacatlán Tenango to and from Toluca to the foot of the Mount of the Crosses.

It is said that one of the Otomi matlatzincas groups founded the town of Lerma. Quiroz Romero objects to the claim (Priest Arnulfo Hurtado) that the pre-Hispanic name of Lerma is on Cacamilhuacan Mexican language, with the meaning of "???? Cornfield crows"????.

For 1426, Itzcoatl, fourth tlatoani of the great city of Mexico Tenochtitlan, incursions by the course of Atzcapozalco, endorsing the towns of Coyoacán, Cauhuacan, Tlacopan Mixcoac Cuajimalpa Cuauhtitlán, Xochimilco, Chalco, Tlatelolco, Cauauhnahuac (Cuernavaca) and Huitzizilapan village, town municipality of Lerma today.

Upon arrival of the Aztecs, the three main ethnic groups were distributed as follows: the Otomi mainly dominated northern Toluca Valley and were limited to the territory now occupied by the municipality of Lerma and Ocoyoacac, with some communities scattered between thereof. The Matlatzincas, which dominated southern Toluca Valley and had as main sites the shore of Laguna Chiconahuapan while dominated Mazahuas westward Toluca Valley, mountains and sunsets of the State of Mexico.

Chichimeca groups would join the communities near the lakes, fishing and sitting practicing culturally matlatzincas or Otomi called southerners, although the territory of the Otomi limited in this part of the matlatzincas Lerma, so presumably there there was a great cultural influence between the calls and the Otomi matlatzincas as to the Valley of Toluca was known as the Valley Matalcingo and the river that was born in the lagoon of Chiconahuapan, was called Rio Grande or Matalcingo, which retained its name until the end eighteenth century.