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People attending Catholic mass in San Miguel el Alto. Los Altos have many shrines. San Juan de los Lagos is the second most visited pilgrimage shrine in Mexico, after the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City . The numerous shrines are important tourist attractions for the state of Jalisco:
Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), a stratovolcano on the boundary between the states of Puebla and Veracruz, is the highest mountain peak of Mexico. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of Mexico. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
In the 1940s the Mexico City/Laredo highway was built through the area, which gave the valley more connection with the outside world. [ 15 ] In 1951, by presidential decree, the Patrimonio Indígena del Valle de Mezquital (Valley of Mezquital Indigenous Heritage) was created in Ixmiquilpan by President Miguel Alemán Valez and state governor D ...
San Miguel el Alto is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 787 km 2. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 26,971. [1] The municipality includes the town of San José de los Reynoso.
Atotonilco El Alto is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in Los Altos (Jalisco) region in central-western Mexico. [2] The municipality covers an area of 510.9 km 2. Atotonilco (pronounced ah-toh-toh-NEAL-co) means "place of hot waters", in Náhuatl. "El Alto"("The High One") was later added in honor of those who died in the Cristero War in the ...
San Julian is a town and municipality of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. Located northeast of Jalisco, in the Southern Highlands Region, on a land area of 261.9 km 2. According to Count II of Population and Housing, the population is mainly engaged in the tertiary and secondary sectors of the economy. Nearly the whole population is of the Roman ...
The Desierto de los Leones National Park is located in the center of Mexico to the southwest of the Mexico's Basin. It is part of the Sierra de las Cruces geomorphological unit, which at the same time is part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. The two mountain ranges form part of the topographic composition of the park.
Huejuquilla El Alto is a town and municipality in Jalisco in central-western Mexico, being the northernmost municipality in Jalisco. The municipality covers an area of 769.5 km². The municipality covers an area of 769.5 km².