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Ajijic is located 1,538 metres (5,046 ft) above sea level in Mexico's Volcanic Axis also known as the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. The Chapala Lake basin has a year-round average temperature of about 19 °C (66 °F). [1] Due to Ajijic's tropical latitude and relatively high elevation, it is seldom unpleasantly hot or humid.
In September 2018, Coca people hoped to recover [6] their seized lands in es:Mezcala (Jalisco), the target of large-scale real estate projects for U.S. immigrants, resulting in many Indigenous lands being illegally seized, after 19 years struggling against a Guillermo Moreno Ibarra.
Chapala (Spanish: ⓘ) is a town and municipality in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, located on the north shore of Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest freshwater lake. According to the 2015 census, its population is 50,738 for the municipality. [2] The municipality includes about 11,000 in the town of Ajijic.
An estimated 30,000 foreign residents live along the shores of Lake Chapala. [70] Today, Lake Chapala is popular as a weekend getaway for residents of Guadalajara. [16] The Lake is a tourist attraction on which people sail, fish and jet ski. The Lake is surrounded by a number of towns including Chapala, Jocotepec, Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos ...
Chapala may refer to: Chapala, Jalisco, a town in the Mexican state of Jalisco, on the northern shore of Lake Chapala; Lake Chapala, the largest freshwater lake in Mexico, in the states of Jalisco and Michoacán; Chapala, a 1899 painting by Félix Bernardelli; Cyclone Chapala, a powerful tropical cyclone occurring in the Arabian Sea during the ...
Lake Chapala (Spanish: Lago de Chapala, ⓘ) has been Mexico's largest freshwater lake since the desiccation of Lake Texcoco in the early 17th century. [ 2 ] It borders both the states of Jalisco and Michoacán , being located within the municipalities of Ocotlán , Chapala , Jocotepec , Poncitlán , and Jamay , in Jalisco , and in Venustiano ...
The dismembered remains of 18 bodies were found inside a Toyota Sienna and Ford EcoSport near the U.S. retiree communities in Chapala, Jalisco, just south of the city of Guadalajara. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] [ 138 ] Eighteen heads were found along the dismembered bodies; some had been frozen, others were covered in lime, and the rest were found in an ...
Isla de los Alacranes (Scorpion Island) is an island in Lake Chapala, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. [1]It is so called because it is shaped as a scorpion. [1] Many Mexican people use the word "alacrán" for the smaller, most venomous species of scorpion, which are very common in Mexico, while the word "escorpión" is used to describe the larger, darker and less venomous species.