"Adoro a mi tierra" ("I Adore My Land") is a song written by Artemio Santoyo at the request of singer Flor Silvestre, who wanted to pay tribute to her hometown, Salamanca,

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, Mexico. She recorded the song in 1950 for

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, accompanied by Rubén Fuentes' mariachi. It became one of her first hits.

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, Columbia's subsidiary label, reissued the recording in the compilation album '' Flor Silvestre canta sus éxitos'' (1964), and Sony Music reissued it in digital format in 2016.

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Flor Silvestre - Adoro a mi tierra
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