Galeana

Galeana lies in the high mountain valleys of southern Nuevo León, amid the ranges of the Sierra Madre Oriental. The settlement was formerly known as San Pablo de los Labradores. Its fields and springs occupy a cooler upland setting than the low plains to the east, and the valley formed part of the northern frontier of Spanish settlement.

In 1678 Fernando Sánchez de Zamora established the settlement of San Pablo under the authority of the Nuevo Reino de León. A mission and community of Indigenous people developed there during the colonial period. The church of San Pablo was built in the eighteenth century, and the settlement received the status of a villa and the name Galeana in 1829, after Mexican independence. Its older name recalled the cultivation that drew settlers to the valley.