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FLACSO, Ecuador. The Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Spanish: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Portuguese: Faculdade Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais or FLACSO) is a graduate-only university and inter-governmental autonomous organization for Latin America dedicated to research, teaching and spreading of social sciences.
At a height of 62 metres (203 ft), [1] [2] the Cristo de Chiapas is the largest cross in Mexico. [8] It is 32 metres (105 ft) taller than the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [1] Measured arm to arm, the structure is 34 metres (112 ft) long. [8] It weighs 180 tonnes. [2]
Shortly after Valverde's mass, the priest Eleuterio de María Santísima Ferrer promoted the placement of a commemorative plaque. The idea was consolidated to also add an image of the Sacred Heart . The project was accepted by the bishop, who attended the place on March 12, 1920, to lay the first stone and on April 11 to celebrate the first ...
The event can attract up to 150,000 people from Veracruz and other parts of Mexico. [18] The Señor de Tila is a Cristo Negro images with a link to the Esquipulas image, sharing the same feast day of January 15, the same sanctuary design and many of the same rituals followed by pilgrims. However instead of made from wood, it is made from a ...
Santuario de los Mártires de Cristo Rey is a religious monument located in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico.This building was erected in honor of the Mexican martyrs who lost their lives during the Cristero War, an armed conflict between 1926 and 1929 (although some clashes continued until the early 1930s) in response to the anti-religious policies of the Mexican government.
Cristo Blanco, atop Pukamuqu in the Cusco Region of Peru; Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia; Cristo de las Noas in Torreón, Mexico; Cristo della Minerva by Michelangelo, in Rome; Cristo del Otero on the outskirts of the city of Palencia in Spain; Cristo del Pacífico in Lima, Peru; Cristo Redentore Christ the Redeemer of Maratea, Italy
Topia, the western province of Nueva Vizcaya, contained three major missions: Xiximes, San Andrés, and Santa Cruz de Topia. These were each subdivided into several districts, or partidos , each of which in turn contained several pueblos, or visitas .
Montecristo de Guerrero is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 6,900, [1] up from 5,086 as of 2005. [2] It covers an area of 190.3 km 2. As of 2010, the town of Montecristo de Guerrero had a population of 2,546. [1]