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The ground floor has many everyday items such as fresh and packaged food, household goods, wickerwork and hardware. [62] Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato was created to exhibit the best of the artwork of the city. It contains an important collection of religious art from the 17th to 19th centuries.
Guanajuato produces 25.4% of the goat meat in the country. [84] Only a very small percentage of the economy is based on fishing and forestry. Fishing is not a major economic activity as it is limited to the small rivers and lakes of the region. Of the two major lakes, one is shared with neighboring Michoacán state.
1554 - Guanajuato founded. [1] [2]1558 - Mine shaft in operation, per Spaniards. [3]1679 - Town charter granted. [4]1732 - Hospice of the Holy Trinity founded. 1741 - Guanajuato attains city status.
Mexican wine and wine making began with the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, when they brought vines from Europe to modern day Mexico, the oldest wine-growing region in the Americas. Although there were indigenous grapes before the Spanish conquest, the Spaniards found that Spanish grapevines also did very well in the colony of New ...
León, Guanajuato. León (Spanish pronunciation: [leˈon]), officially León de Los Aldama, is the most populous city and municipal seat of the municipality of León in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. In the 2020 Intercensal Survey, INEGI reported 1,721,626 people living in the municipality of León, [1] making it the fourth-most populous ...
Peralta (Mesoamerican site) Peralta is a prehispanic mesoamerican archaeological site located in Abasolo Municipality, Guanajuato, just outside the village of San Jose de Peralta in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. The site is reached via Fed 90 from Irapuato. Approximately 15.5 km south of the intersection with Fed 45, take the Irapuato ...
El Cóporo is a prehispanic archaeological site at the northern frontiers of the Mesoamerican cultural area, located at an elevation of 150 meters on the western slopes of the Santa Bárbara range (Sierra de Santa Bárbara), near the San José del Torreón community, [1] and lies some 15 kilometres (9 mi) due south of its municipal seat and largest township, on the northwestern corner of ...
Food & Wine is an American monthly magazine published by Dotdash Meredith.It was founded in 1978 [2] [3] by Ariane and Michael Batterberry.It features recipes, cooking tips, travel information, restaurant reviews, chefs, wine pairings and seasonal/holiday content and has been credited by The New York Times with introducing the dining public to "Perrier, the purple Peruvian potato and ...