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City of Mexico Tampico

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Oct 102009

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 was the site of the Huastec kingdom, which later became a tributary of the Aztec Empire. Spanish settlement dates back to the founding of a Franciscan mission there in the 1530s. Tampico was occupied by a U.S. force during the Mexican War and by French troops in 1862, during the French intervention.

With the discovery of oil (circa 1900) by Engineer and American geologists, rapid development of petroleum industries began; before Mexico expropriated foreign-owned property, about 13 percent of Tampico’s landowners were Americans. The city boomed while much of the rest of Mexico was in revolutionary turmoil.

Tampico is the seat of a state university and an active cultural center.

City of Mexico Tehuacan

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Oct 102009

Called Carlsbad of Mexico because of famed mineral springs. Has old colonial churches.

City of Mexico Nuevo Laredo

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Oct 102009

Nuevo Laredo is the Northern terminus of the national Railroad and the Inter-Americas Highway, as well as an important point of entry for U.S. tourists driving to Mexico. It is also a center of international trade and the distribution point for an agricultural (mainly cotton) and livestock-raising area; commerce; tourism industry.

Nuevo Laredo has been one of the many Mexican cities affected by an influx of foreign capital, primarily due to the establishment of foreign-owned industrial plants, known as maquiladoras. Has developed into a transportation-trans-shipment center since NAFTA (1993).

Founded in 1755, the city was part of Laredo until the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848. Nuevo Laredo played a role in the Mexican revolution of 1910 and was burned extensively in 1914.

City of Mexico Candelaria

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Candelaria, declared the eleventh municipality of the state of Campeche on June 19, 1998, is located in southern Campeche in the middle of the jungle. The town is crossed by the region’s largest river, also called Candelaria; its tributaries are the La Esperanza, Caribe, La Joroba, and El Toro rivers.

Outside Candelaria you can find the entrances of old Mayan canals that connected towns inland. In his book History and Religion of the Mayas, John Thompson tells us that the ancient Chontales navigated this river and were traders that apparently went everywhere: the Phoenicians of the New World. There is even a sunken Mayan bridge that crosses the whole river, which can be seen in the dry season and when the water is clear.

There are several river spas in the region, and people can hire guides to take them to see Salto Grande, a place where the river forms pools and small waterfalls, and where it is quite common to hear howler monkeys scream or to see a wide variety of bird species. After a 3 or 4-hour ride along the river you can reach El Tigre or Itzamkanac, an archeological site about 265 km from Ciudad del Carmen, and farther up you will see Pedro Baranda, a town where the river flows into Los Pericos Lagoon.

Located 214 km from Ciudad del Carmen, this young municipality is in the middle of one of the regions with the brightest prospects of developing ecotourism projects in the state. Rivers, animals, and plants are attractions for visitors who will not be disappointed with the landscape’s variety and lushness.

City of Mexico Fresnillo

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Oct 102009

The city, on Mexico Highway 45-49, is the center of a rich mining area known especially for silver. It has a mining school. Agricultural (cereals, beans) and cattle raising are other important economic activities.

Fresnillo was founded in 1554 by Francisco de Ibarra. Also known as Fresnillo de Gonzalez Echeverria.

City of Mexico Teziutlan

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Oct 102009

Trade, agricultural (coffee, tobacco, sugarcane, corn, apples, pears, plums, oranges), and mfg. (cigars, ceramics, leather goods) center.

Copper mines nearby. Picturesque colonial town.

City of Mexico Francisco Escarcega

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The road that runs across the south of the peninsula, from Francisco Escárcega to Chetumal, is relatively new, passing through jungle territory rich in Maya remains, several of which have only recently been opened to the public. Though largely unexplored, these are beginning to see a trickle of visitors as access improves; you can get accommodation and arrange tours at Xpujil , a village named after the nearby archeological site, on the border between Campeche and Quintana Roo states.

City of Mexico Zacatecas

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It is situated in a deep ravine surrounded by arid hills. The climate is temperate. The city is characterized by colonial buildings and narrow, winding, and steep cobbled streets, frequently broken by stone steps. Zacatecas is a distribution center for local mines as well as the commercial center for the region.

Founded in 1548, the strategically located city was a key point in the Mexican wars and revolutions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its cathedral was heavily pillaged during these struggles.

City of Mexico Silao

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Oct 102009

Mineral springs nearby. Founded 1537.

City of Mexico Oaxaca

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Commercial and tourist center situated in the Valley of Oaxaca. The church and monastery of Santo Domingo is a national monument and UN World Heritage Site. Noted for hand-wrought gold and silver filigree, pottery, and woven goods that rank among the finest in Mexico.

The chief city of Southern Mexico, Oaxaca is linked with the federal capital by Railroad and the Inter-Amer. Highway (190).

Subject to severe earthquakes.

According to Aztec tradition, Oaxaca was founded as Huasyacac in 1486, during the brief ascendancy of the Aztecs over the Mixtecs and Zapotecs. Prominent in the Mexican revolution against Spain, the city also joined in the War of the Reform and in resistance to the French intervention.

Known as Antequera in colonial period.

City of Mexico Villahermosa

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The city, which has good communications facilities (on Mexico Highways 180, 186, and 195), is the commercial and distribution center for the surrounding region. Oil is the economic mainstay. Founded in the 16th century. The city possesses a large collection of Olmec and Mayan artifacts, which are exhibited in the Regional Anthropological Museum and the La Venta Park Museum.

City of Mexico Ciudad del Carmen

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Ciudad del Carmen is a city in the south west of the state of (Mexican city on the Bay of Campeche) Campeche, (A Republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810) Mexico. Ciudad del Carmen is located at 18.63°N, 91.83°W, on the south west of Carmen Island in the Laguna de Terminos at the coast of the (An arm of the Atlantic south of the United States and east of Mexico) Gulf of Mexico. In 2003 the population was estimated at 132,400 people.

The city is nicknamed “The Pearl of the Gulf”. Ciudad del Carmen was a small city mostly devoted to (The act of someone who fishes as a diversion) fishing until the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s when (A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water) oil was discovered in the region; since then it has grown and developed substantially. The city could long be reached only by (A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule) ferry boats called “pangas”; this changed with the construction of a causeway bridge to the mainland in the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s and another one in the (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s before the term of the President Carlos Salinas de Gortari ended.

This border area at the western edge of the (A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea) Yucatán Peninsula was previously part of the state of Yucatán, then of (Very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small) Tabasco; since 1863 it has been part of the state of Campeche. In 1840 the city had a population of about 7,000.

The city is also the seat of the State of Campeche’s Carmen municipality, which includes the city and the surrounding area. In 1999 the population of the municipality of Carmen was 181,566 people.

City of Mexico Mazatlan

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Oct 102009

One of the largest commercial and industrial centers of Western Mexico, Mazatlan is one of Mexico’s major Pacific seaports. It is on a Railroad between the U.S. and Mexico city, and its location makes it the country’s primary ferry link to Baja California. Although the climate is hot, Mazatlan is a popular resort with a beautiful setting. Spanish colonial trade with the Philippines stimulated the development of the port. Buelna international airport to the North.

City of Mexico Guanajuato

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Oct 102009

Guanajuato has narrow, winding, steep cobblestone streets, sometimes pieced out by stone steps, and the ground underneath is honeycombed with silver-mine shafts. Its geographic position and economic importance as one of Spanish America’s chief silver-producing centers gave the city a key role in the wars and revolutions that wracked Mexico in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Guanajuato has become a tourist center. There are several noteworthy colonial churches and buildings, including the Alhondiga de Granaditas, originally a granary that was besieged and captured (1810) by Hidalgo y Costilla at the outset of the war against Spain.

Guanajuato is a national monument and a UNESCO World Heritage site.

City of Mexico Amecameca

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Oct 102009

The sanctuary of El Sacromonte, the most venerated spot in Mexico after the shrine of Guadalupe, stands on a hill above Amecameca. The town’s history dates back to 1200. Municipio is part of the Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Mexico.

City of Mexico Monte Alban

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Oct 102009

Monte Alban was built on an artificially leveled, rocky promontory above the Valley of Oaxaca. Located around an enormous plaza about low buildings set off by sunken courts and stairways.

The tombs, particularly Tomb 7, have yielded great archaeological treasure; jewelry of gold, copper, jade, rock crystal, obsidian, and turquoise mosaic, and bone and wood carving showing elaborate religious symbolism.

Excavation was begun (1931) by the Mexican archaeologist Alfonso Caso. The Zapotec apparently had an advanced culture here circa 200 B.C. and already were using the bar and dot system of numerals used by the Maya.

The final epoch (circa 1300-1521), terminated by the Spanish Conquest, covers the ascendancy of the Mixtec, when the Zapotec were driven from Monte Alban and Mitla. Tomb 7 belongs to the final period. Cultural links with the Olmec and the Toltec have been found.

City of Mexico Champoton

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Oct 102009

Champoton is a small city in the state of Campeche, Mexico, located at 19.35°N 90.72°W, about 60 km south of the city of Campeche where the small Champoton river meets the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In 2000 it had a population of about 23,500 people.

Champoton, historically also called Chakanputun and Chanputun, was a city of the Maya civilization dating back to at least the 10th century before it was conquered by Spain in the 16th century.

Champoton is also a municipality within the state of Campeche, including the city of Champoton and the surrounding area. In 1999 the municipalty of Champoton had a population of 80,224 people.

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