14 Facts About Pachuca

Pachuca, formally known as Pachuca de Soto, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Hidalgo.

Pachuca is located about 90 kilometres from Mexico City via Mexican Federal Highway 85.

The area had been long inhabited, but except for some green obsidian the mining that Pachuca is famous for began in the mid-16th century, during Spanish colonial rule.

Pachuca remained a major mining center until the mid-20th century, with the city's fortunes going up and down with the health of the mining sector.

One cultural aspect that makes Pachuca stand out is the influence of the Cornish miners who immigrated here in the 19th century.

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Credit for the Spanish conquest of the Pachuca area has been given Francisco Tellez, an artilleryman who came to Mexico with Hernan Cortes in 1519.

The most probable comes from a work called "Descripcion Anonima de la Minas de Pachuca" written between the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th.

Pachuca discovered new veins of ore, mostly in nearby Real del Monte.

Pachuca sold its interests to the Mexican government in 1965.

Pachuca was declared the capital of Hidalgo by Benito Juarez in 1869.

Pachuca is center of one of the most important mining areas in Mexico, and for this reason, most of the city's attractions are based on the mining industry.

The first team from Pachuca consisted of Charles Dawe, John Dawe, James Bennetts, John Bennetts, William Blamey, Richard Sobey, William Bragg, William Thomas, Percy Bunt, Lionel Bunt, Albert Pengelly and William Pengelly.

The Pachuca club encouraged the formation of teams in Mexico City and Orizaba, the first championship of the new Liga Mexicana de Futbol Asociacion was played in 1902.

Pachuca won the Copa Tower in 1908 and 1912, the precedent of the modern Mexican Cup.