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San Patricio is located on the southern coast of Jalisco, about 4 kilometers northwest of Barra de Navidad. It is bounded by Laguna del Tule to the east. It is bounded by Laguna del Tule to the east. Its average elevation is 12 meters above the sea level.
Monuments and memorials in Jalisco (1 C, 22 P) M. ... Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Mexico" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 ...
Camino Real, or the Royal Inland Route, was a trade route for silver extracted from the mines in Mexico and mercury imported from Europe. It was active from the mid-16th to the 19th centuries and stretched over 2,600 km (1,600 mi) from north of Mexico City to Santa Fe in today's New Mexico. This serial site comprises the Mexican part of the ...
The area was considered sacred before the arrival of the Spanish because of the hot mineral springs. The name Atotonilco is common in Mexico, especially in the central highlands, with the best known in Jalisco. The name comes from a Nahuatl phrase "in hot water" which refers to thermal springs. [35]
Federal Highway 80 (Carretera Federal 80) connects Tampico, Tamaulipas, to San Patricio, Jalisco. [6] Federal Highway 80 connects the city of Guadalajara to the south coast in Jalisco . The highway runs through the towns of Acatlán de Juárez , Villa Corona , Cocula , Tecolotlán , Unión de Tula , Autlán , La Huerta , Casimiro Castillo , and ...
Mexico City National Cemetery, a U.S. national cemetery located in Colonia San Rafael, [a] created by purchase of land in 1850, "still stands as the only significant effort made by the federal government to recover the remains of any soldiers who lost their lives during the war with Mexico and to memorialize them. Today, this cemetery (reduced ...
Location in central/western Mexico City The Angel of Independence , most commonly known by the shortened name El Ángel and officially known as Monumento a la Independencia ("Monument to Independence"), is a victory column on a roundabout on the major thoroughfare of Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City .
Los Guachimontones is the largest Late Formative to Classic period (300 BCE to 450/500 CE) pre-Columbian archaeological site in the state of Jalisco. [1] Situated in the hills above the town of Teuchitlán that provides the namesake for the culture that built the site, Los Guachimontones is part of the Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila UNESCO world heritage site and ...