‘Mexico Cities’ Archives
City of Mexico Guanajuato
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 [...]
City of Mexico Amecameca
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
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 [...]
City of Mexico Champoton
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 [...]
City of Mexico Cholula
The site of the famous Teocali de Cholula, a pre-Columbian pyramid of great antiquity, the city was an old Toltec center and an Aztec sacred city devoted to the worship of Quetzalcoatl. Today, a suburb of Puebla, its pyramid, the most massive in the Americas, is now crowned by a church. Site of dozens of Roman Cathelic churches, many in disrepair. [...]
City of Mexico Playa del Carmen
Playa del Carmen is perfect for enjoying the simple pleasures of a seaside vacation. If you enjoy sunbathing while refreshing sea air billows around you while working your toes into the sand; cooling down while swimming in crystal-clear water; or strolling aimlessly down the beach, listening to the wash of waves, and feeling the sensual light [...]
City of Mexico Hecelchakan
Hecelchakan, about 80km from Campeche, which has a small archeology museum on the main square, with figures from Jaina and objects from other nearby sites.
City of Mexico Celaya
In a region watered by the Lerma irrigation works, Celaya is the center of a prosperous corn, cereal, and bean growing area in the Bajio region. Cattle raising and the associated dairy industry are also important. Founded in 1571, Celaya was frequently involved in Mexican wars. It was the first city to be captured (Sept. 28, 1810) by Hidalgo y [...]
City of Mexico San Miguel de Allende
Agricultural center (beans, cereals, sugarcane, fruit; livestock); flour and textile (cotton) milling, tanning. Artist colony; tourist center. Founded in 1542. Birthplace of revolutionary hero Ignacio Allende.
City of Mexico Frontera
A cargo and fishing port. Trading, processing, and agricultural center (sugar, tobacco, corn, coconut, rice, beans, cacao, bananas; livestock; timber). Tanning, sawmilling, vegetable oil pressing; manufacturing of soap, footwear. Exports fruit, wood. Formerly Alvaro Obregon.
