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Valle de Bravo, originally named Temascaltepec (hill where there are temascales for Náhuatl language), used to be a riverside town in the middle of a valley.
The very first settlers in the county where the Matlatzincas tribe. After the defeat of the Aztec empire to the hands of the Spaniard conquerors, the first religious group to arrive at the zone, called “Villa del Valle” then, were the Franciscans in 1523; after that, Dominicans arrived, and later, The Augustinians. In 1861 the county adopted its current name, Valle de Bravo; and in 1878 it was named a city. By 1899 the construction of the city hall started.
The first inhabitants of the town were the Otomies, Mazahuas and Matlatzincas, who settled in what is currently known as Santa María Ahuacatlán, La Peña and Optima neighborhoods. It is well known that the zone was conquered by the Aztecs in 1478, who built a fortress in the zone nowadays known as “La Peña”, and which remains were found in 1872. It was until 1530, when Franciscan Gregorio Jimenez de Cuenca founded San Francisco Temascaltepec del Valle (that is why he is the current Saint of Valle de Bravo); It is in 1839 that changes to Villa del Valle and then in 1861 was given its current name, Valle de Bravo. In 1971 it is named Ciudad Tipica de Valle de Bravo.
In the book titled “Geografía y Estadística del Estado de México”, Published in 1889, in the peak of the porfirismo, Valle appears as a district formed by 5 counties, and three counties that enclose 1 city, three villages, 33 towns, 4 neighborhoods, 23 haciendas, a ranch and 24 small ranch groups.
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