Archive for October, 2009
City of Mexico Leon
Site of a famous flood, which in 1888 almost washed the city away. Leon, on the main Railroad line between El Paso, Texas and Mexico city, and on Mexico Highways 37 and 45, is a commercial, agricultural, and mining center and one of Mexico's leading leather working and shoemaking cities. The local mines yield gold, copper, silver, lead, and [...]
City of Mexico Calvillo
Located on the west side of the state, Calvillo was a settlement of Nahua Indians of San José Huejúcar, and it means "Place of Willows." José Calvillo, owner of the Hacienda of San Nicolás, donated the land for the town's founding, which was done by the governor of Guadalajara, Manuel Colón de Larreategui on November 18, 1771. Famous for [...]
Mexico State Yucatan
The legendary land of the Maya is located in the north of the peninsula after which it is named and which it shares with Campeche and Quintana Roo; it is washed by the Gulf of Mexico in the north. Yucatán forms part of the Mayan world, vestiges of which can be found throughout its territory, particularly in Chichén Itzá and along the Puuc [...]
Mexico State Tamaulipas
In the extreme northeast of Mexico, bounded by Nuevo León. San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, the Gulf of Mexico and Texas, lies the state of Tamaulipas, whose name is derived from the Huastec Tamaholipa, "place where people pray a lot," referring to the mission churches. However, neither the Conquest nor the subsequent evangelization was to have [...]
Mexico State Nuevo Leon
This state, located in the northeast of Mexico, borders on the states of Coahuila, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas: to the north, it borders on Texas. Its climate is extreme: cold most of the year and cool and rainy in the summer in the highlands, cool in the south with extreme temperatures in the desert. It was occupied by nomadic [...]
City of Mexico Monterrey
The third-largest city of Mexico, Monterrey is the Railroad and highway hub of NE Mexico. It is also Mexico's second-most important industrial center. The site of the nation's largest iron and steel foundries and a major producer of cement. Monterrey's modern industrial complex also includes a wide range of light manufacturing (including glass and [...]
City of Mexico Pachuca
Pachuca, one of Mexico's oldest and most famous mining towns, was founded in 1534 on the site of an ancient Toltec city. The region is extremely rich in ore deposits, especially silver, which has been mined since Aztec times. Pachuca is also a cultural and educational center, with a university, a meteorological observatory, and a noted school [...]
Mexico State Hidalgo
The state of Hidalgo occupies a privileged region in the center of Mexico and borders on the states of Mexico, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and Querétaro, giving it a variety of climates, landscapes, ethnic groups and traditions. These contrasts constitute its greatest attraction for Mexican and foreign visitors [...]
City of Mexico Tampico
Rivaling Veracruz as Mexico's most important seaport, Tampico is used primarily for Mexico's petroleum industry and fishing. It possesses excellent modern facilities and also serves as an export center for Tamaulipas's other goods, including cattle, hides, sugar, and additional agricultural products. In pre-Columbian times, the Tampico area [...]
Mexico State Campeche
Campeche is part of the enormous plain comprising the Yucatán peninsula, which it shares with Yucatán and Quintana Roo. It was inhabited by groups from the ancient Mayan culture, traces of which can still be seen in places like Edzná and Calakmul. On the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, in what was once the Mayan city of Ah Kin Pech ("place of [...]
