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Mil Familias III page 128 Rodolfo de la Garza

"El día 30 de Junio de 1687 se presentan ante el Sr. Agustín Echevers y Subisar, Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo, Caballero de la Orden de Santiago, Vizconde de Santa Olaya, Gobernador y Capitán General del Nuevo Reyno de León y sus conquistas, estos 6 hijos legítimos del Capitán Diego de Villarreal y le presentaron sus contenidos como tales para efecto de ordenar sus heredades...Al compartirse la herencia de su padre el Capitán Diego de Villarreal...a los hermanos Juan y Cristobal de Villarreal les cupo por ésta razón la Hacienda de la labor que llaman de Enmedio".
Así quedo limitada en toda su extensión geográfica la Hacienda de Enmedio que desde entonces se denominó Hacienda de Juan y Cristobal de Villarreal.


Bernabe inherited a part of el Chipinque it was later sold to Juan Antonio de Villarreal in 1707Source: Guillermo Garminda Leal Los Valles de las Salinas y del Carrizal en el Nuevo Reyno de Leon TOMO I (2006) page 112 TOMO II page 220


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The area was settled by Canarian captain Bernanbé de las Casas, who, with other Spanish, primarily Canarians settlers, established several settlements across the Salinas Valley. De las Casas owned an extensive collection of lands, mines and small settlements in the Salinas valley, However, the town which is today El Carmen, was an unsettled territory inherited from Bernabé de las Casas to his daughter, Juliana de las Casas and her husband in 1614, founded as the Hacienda of Chipinque. The small village remained almost unpopulated, so the area which comprised the small town was sold in 1616 to Diego de Villarreal, a Spanish captain and his sons, in order to increase the Spanish population the Salinas Valley region.
On February 5, 1852, was signed a decree by then Governor of Nuevo León, Agapito García, and his executive secretary Santiago Vidaurri, in the document, the village of Chipinque and surrounded area, would form a new and independent municipality of Nuevo León, named "El Carmen".