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Juanacatlán
Juanacatlán () is a town and ''municipio'' (municipality) in the central region of the Mexican state of Jalisco. Origin of name Juanacatlán gets its name from the Nahuatl word "Xonacatlan", which means ''place abundant in onions'' or ''onion place'' (from "Xonaca" for onions and "Tlan" for place). The hieroglyph of Juanacatlán includes the symbol of the Tlaxcala, representing the battles and the places where the Tlaxcaltecans went with the Nuño de Guzmán expedition, after the conquest of Mexico. Seal The seal of Juanacatlán is based on the region's economic activities and history, and is divided into four parts: *In the center: Nahuatl ideogram of Tlaxcala, which signifies “Xonacatlan” in the indigenous vocabulary, from which is derived the name of the population. *Upper left: This section includes symbols of the principal economic activity of the region, agriculture, and presents the basic products produced: wheat and corn, against a base of stone, and the image of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Salto, Jalisco
El Salto is a city, and the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the central region of the Mexican state of Jalisco. The municipality covers a surface of area of with a population of 138,226. It is surrounded, in a clockwise direction from the north, by the municipalities of Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Juanacatlán, and Tlajomulco de Zúñiga. It was created on 22 December 1943, with its excision from the municipality of Juanacatlán. History In 1530, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico, Hernán Cortés, commissioned Nuño de Guzmán to conquer "inland". This part to the conquest of the kingdom of Michoacán, venturing to conquer new lands was launched towards the West. Thus, on 20 January, 1530, the expedition crosses the Lerma river through Cuitzeo and walking northwest, appears in front of Tonalá on 24 March, taking possession of the village, one of the largest in the region, leaving the entire region subjugated to the Spanish kingdom. The next day, 25 March, Nuño de Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ixtlahuacán De Los Membrillos
Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 184.25 km². It is located north of the Chapala municipality. In 2005, the municipality had a total population of 23,420. Geography Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos is located in the center of the State, at the coordinates 20-21'00'' to 20-27'30'' north latitude and 103-07'20'' at 103-17'00'' west longitude, at a height of 1,570 metres above sea level. It is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Tlajomulco de Zuñiga and Juanacatlán, to the south by Chapala, to the east by Juanacatlán and Chapala, and to the west by Tlajomulco de Zúñiga and Jocotepec. Its territorial extension 184.25 km2, with 94 localities, being the most important: Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos (municipal head), Atequiza /en.wikipedia.org/Historia_de_Atequiza%2C_M%C3%A9xico La Capilla, Los Cedros, El Rodeo and Santa Pink. Flat areas represent 62% of the municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalisco
Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and is bordered by six states, which are Nayarit, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Michoacán, and Colima. Jalisco is divided into 125 municipalities, and its capital and largest city is Guadalajara. Jalisco is one of the most economically and culturally important states in Mexico, owing to its natural resources as well as its long history and culture. Many of the characteristic traits of Mexican culture, particularly outside Mexico City, are originally from Jalisco, such as mariachi, ranchera music, birria, tequila, jaripeo, etc., hence the state's motto: "Jalisco es México." Economically, it is ranked third in the country, with industries centered in the Guadalajara metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zapotlán Del Rey
Zapotlán del Rey is a town and municipality in Jalisco in west-central Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 320.90 km². This town became popular back in the years due to multiple UFO sightings and alleged extraterrestrial beings known as the greys around the highschool and nearby farms to the highschool. Similar stories at nearby cities like Ocotlán, Jalisco. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 16,274. Etymology Zapotlán is derived from the Nahuatl word "Tzapotlán", and it means: "place where sapotes abound". History Upon the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, the region was inhabited by Tecuexe and Nahua tribes and their dialect was Tepecuexe. The date of its foundation is unknown. Its primitive population settled to the northwest of the current population on the hill called "La Coronita" ("The Little Crown"). In 1529, Nuño de Guzmán sent Pedro Almíndez Chirino to conquer the eastern and northern region. Almíndez arrived in Tzapot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonalá, Jalisco
Tonalá () is a city and municipality within the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area in the state of Jalisco in Mexico. With a population of 374,258, it is the fourth largest city in the state, the other three being the other major population centres in the metro area: Guadalajara, Zapopan, and Tlaquepaque. It is best known as a major handcrafts center for Jalisco, especially pottery, as well as its very large Thursday and Sunday street market, dedicated to handcrafts. The city The “municipal palace” or local government building is distinguished by its clock tower and arches, which are decorated in ceramic tiles in traditional motifs. There are also ceramic murals created by Salvador Vázquez and Francisco Basulto. In 2013, the local government opened an exhibition hall and museum in the building called the Tonalá Puebla-Museo, to promote local handcrafts, arts and culture. The main church for the city is the Santiago Apostol Parish. Constructed in the 16th century, it is the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigoberto Álvarez
Rigoberto Álvarez Barragán (born January 20, 1978) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2011. Rigo is a former World Boxing Council, WBC FECARBOX super middleweight and interim World Boxing Association#Current WBA world title holders, WBA light middleweight champion. Early life Álvarez comes from a big boxing family, his brothers are welterweight prospects Ramón Álvarez (boxer), Ramón Álvarez, Ricardo Álvarez Barragán, Ricardo Álvarez and the current Undisputed Super Middleweight champion, Canelo Álvarez. Professional career Álvarez lost a close decision to William Gare in South Africa for the World Boxing Foundation super middleweight title. In January 2010 he suffered his second loss by TKO to Marco Antonio Rubio for the World Boxing Council, WBC Latino middleweight title. WBA World Light Middleweight championship On October 9, 2010 Rigoberto fought Nobuhiro Ishida of Japan for his interim World Boxing Association, WBA Light Middlewei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican People
Mexicans ( es, mexicanos) are the citizens of the United Mexican States. The most spoken language by Mexicans is Spanish language, Spanish, but some may also speak languages from 68 different Languages of Mexico, Indigenous linguistic groups and other languages brought to Mexico by recent immigration or learned by Mexican expats residing in other countries. In 2015, 21.5% of Mexico's population Indigenous peoples of Mexico, self-identified as being Indigenous. There are about 12 million Mexican nationals residing outside Mexico, with about 11.7 million living in the United States. The larger Mexican diaspora can also include individuals that trace ancestry to Mexico and self-concept, self-identify as Mexican yet are not necessarily Mexican by citizenship, culture or language. The United States has the largest Mexican population after Mexico in the world at 37,186,361 (2019). The modern nation of Mexico achieved independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, after a decade long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to "western boxing", in which only the fists are involved, boxing has developed in various ways in different geographical areas and cultures. In global terms, boxing is a set of combat sports focused on striking, in which two opponents face each other in a fight using at least their fists, and possibly involving other actions such as kicks, elbow strikes, Knee (strike), knee strikes, and headbutts, depending on the rules. Some of the forms of the modern sport are western boxing, Bare-knuckle boxing, bare knuckle boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, muay-thai, lethwei, savate, and Sanda (sport), sanda. Boxing techniques have been incorporated into many martial ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middleweight
Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above and up to . Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867. Chandler won, becoming known as the American middleweight champion. The first middleweight fight with gloves ''may'' have been between George Fulljames and Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey (no relation to the more famous heavyweight Jack Dempsey). Current world champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of , . Keys: : Current '' The Ring'' world champion =BoxRec= As of , . Longest reigning world middleweight champions Below is a list of longest reigning middleweight champions in boxing measured by the individual's longest reign. Career total time as champion (for multiple time champions) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the National Action Party (Mexico), National Action Party (PAN) ticket in the 2000 Mexican general election, 2000 election. He became the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929, and the first elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. Fox won the election with 42 percent of the vote. As president, he continued the Neoliberalism, neoliberal economic policies that his predecessors from the PRI had adopted since the 1980s. The first half of his administration saw a further shift of the federal government to the right, strong relations with the United States and George W. Bush, unsuccessful attempts to introduce a value-added tax to medicines and to build an air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago River (Mexico)
Santiago River may refer to: * Santiago River (Ecuador), see Paute River * Santiago River (Mexico), or Río Grande de Santiago * Santiago River (Eastern Mexico) * Santiago River (Peru), in Condorcanqui Province * Santiago River (Puerto Rico) Río Santiago is a short river of Puerto Rico. About long, it is spanned by historic Bridge No. 122 on the coastal road near barrio Duque, Naguabo, Puerto Rico, Duque in Naguabo, Puerto Rico. It discharges into the Caribbean Sea from Naguabo. S ... See also * Santiago Rivera (born 1992), Mexican footballer {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Cajón Dam (Mexico)
The El Cajón Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Río Grande de Santiago in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Construction began in 2003 and was completed in June 2007. It cost US$800 million to build. It is long and is high. The reservoir holds approximately of water, and the generators are capable of producing of electricity. The dam is operated by the Comisión Federal de Electricidad, a state-owned Mexican electric company. Throughout the construction of the El Cajón Dam, the following is estimated: * Rock fill with concrete face dam * A cost of 800 million dollars * An economic benefit of 2 billion pesos (160 million dollars) * The creation of approximately 10,000 direct and indirect jobs * The improvement of access roads that will benefit up to 20,000 inhabitants belonging to 40 communities * An annual mean power generation of 1,228 GWh, approximately 1.5 times the annual consumption of Nayarit * An installed capacity of * An approximate annual savings of two million barrel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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