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San Cristóbal De La Barranca
San Cristóbal de la Barranca is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 523 km². As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 2,924. Geography Limits San Cristóbal de la Barranca is bounded on the north by the state of Zacatecas; on the south by the municipality of Zapopan; on the east by the municipality of Ixtlahuacán del Río; and on the west by the municipality of Tequila. Hydrography The hydrological resources of the municipality are the Santiago, Juchipila, Cuixtla, Mezquital del Oro and Patitos rivers; and the streams of Mojoneras, Cuates, Agua Prieta, Fresno, La Trinidad, Saucillo, Terrero, Carrizalillo, Las Pilas, Guayabo, El Limón and Cántaros. There are also hot springs and geysers nearby, at the ''Parque Ecológico Los Hervores'' on the Rio Patitos between San Cristóbal de la Barranca and Teúl. History Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the region of San Cristóbal de la ...
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Administrative Divisions Of Mexico
Mexico is a federal republic composed of 32 federative entities (): 31 states and Mexico City. According to the Constitution of Mexico, the states of the federation are free and sovereignty, sovereign in all matters concerning their internal affairs. Since 2016, Mexico City was made a fully autonomous entity on par with the states. Each state federative entity has its own congress and constitution. Overview The current structural hierarchy of Mexican administrative divisions are outlined by Constitution of Mexico as well as the constitutions and laws of federative entities. The laws together established the following levels of administrative divisions. The levels in bold are those regulated by the federal constitution. * List of states of Mexico, State () ** Intrastate region, Region () or district () — only in some states *** Municipalities of Mexico, Municipality () **** List of cities in Mexico, City (), town (), village (), or Localities of Mexico, others ***** Coloni ...
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Xochitepec
Xochitepec is a ''municipio (Mexico), municipio'' (Municipalities of Mexico, municipality) of the Mexican state, state of Morelos, in central Mexico. Xochitepec is also the name of its principal township and seat of the municipal government. It is located approximately 13 km (8.1 mi) to the south of the capital of Morelos, Cuernavaca, on the southern outskirts of that city's greater metropolitan area. The municipality reported 68,984 inhabitants in the year 2015 census. 1.65% of the population speak an indigenous language. The toponym ''Xochitepec '' comes from the Nahuatl language, meaning "on the hill of flowers". The name may refer to a buried pyramid located at Kilometer 92 along the Mexico City-Acapulco highway, or it could refer to a hill in the center of the city that serves as the pedestal for a public clock. History Prehispanic History Excavations in Zazacatla show the area was inhabited between 800-500 BCE. Xochicalco was inhabited from A.D. 200, with its peak ...
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Volcano
A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and because most of Earth's plate boundaries are underwater, most volcanoes are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes resulting from divergent tectonic activity are usually non-explosive whereas those resulting from convergent tectonic activity cause violent eruptions."Mid-ocean ridge tectonics, volcanism and geomorphology." Geology 26, no. 455 (2001): 458. https://macdonald.faculty.geol.ucsb.edu/papers/Macdonald%20Mid-Ocean%20Ridge%20Tectonics.pdf Volcanoes can also form where there is str ...
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San Esteban (Jalisco)
San Esteban may refer to: Places *San Esteban, Chile *San Esteban, Olancho, Honduras *San Esteban Island, Sonora, Mexico *San Esteban, a barangay in Nabua, Camarines Sur, Philippines *San Esteban, Ilocos Sur, Philippines *San Esteban (Morcín), Asturias, Spain *San Esteban National Park, Venezuela * Gulf of San Esteban, Western Patagonia Buildings * San Esteban, Burgos, a former Catholic church, now museum, in Spain * San Esteban, San Salvador, a historic Roman Catholic church in El Salvador * Church of San Esteban (other) *Al-Andalusian palatial complex and neighborhood of San Esteban The Al-Andalusian palatial complex and neighborhood of San Esteban is an archaeological site that was in the Arrabal de la Arrixaca Nueva, now in the center of Murcia (Region of Murcia, Spain). This exceptional archaeological site of 10,143 squa ..., a Moorish archaeological site in Murcia, Spain Ships * ''San Esteban'' (1554 shipwreck), a Spanish cargo ship wrecked off the coast of wha ...
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Guadalajara (Mexico)
Guadalajara ( ; ) is the capital and the most populous city in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, as well as the most densely populated municipality in Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 8th most populous city in Mexico, while the Guadalajara metropolitan area has a population of 5,268,642, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in the country and the twenty-second largest metropolitan area in the Americas. Guadalajara has the second-highest population density in Mexico with over 10,361 people per km2, surpassed only by Mexico City. Within Mexico, Guadalajara is a center of business, arts and culture, technology and tourism; as well as the economic center of the Bajío region. It usually ranks among the 100 most productive and globally competitive cities in the world. It is home to numerous landmarks, including the Guadalajara Cathedral, Degollado Theatre, the Templo Expiatorio, the UNESCO World Herita ...
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Nueva Galicia
Nuevo Reino de Galicia (New Kingdom of Galicia; ) or simply Nueva Galicia (''New Galicia'', ''Nova Galicia''), known in Nahuatl as Chimalhuacán (‘the land of shield bearers’), was an autonomous kingdom of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. It was named after Galicia in Spain. Nueva Galicia's territory consisted of the present-day Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Zacatecas. History Spanish exploration of the area began in 1531 with Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán's expedition. He named the main city founded in the area Guadalajara, Jalisco, Villa de Guadalajara after his birthplace and called the area he conquered "la Conquista del Espíritu Santo de la Mayor España" ("the Conquest of the Holy Spirit of Greater Spain"). The name was not approved. Instead, Joanna of Castile, Queen Joanna — at the moment the acting regent of Spain — named the area "Reino de Nueva Galicia." Guzmán's violent conquest left Spanish control of the area unst ...
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Diego Pérez De La Torre
licenciado Diego Pérez de la Torre, born in Almendralejo, Spain (c. 14821538), was a Spanish conquistador, colonial administrator, royal attorney for the Court of Castile and second Governor of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia, following the removal of Nuño de Guzmán. Governorship and Death Diego Pérez de la Torre was appointed captain general and second governor of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia (present-day Jalisco, Mexico) in 1536. He arrived the following year at Compostela, where Cristobal de Oñate had been acting as governor for a short time since Nuño de Guzmán's departure. Pérez de la Torre's policy towards the indigenous people was radically different from that of Nuño de Guzmán, and although it had a beneficial effect on the kingdom, it was too late to atone for past outrages, or to evade the storm of general revolt that was gathering among the indigenous tribes. The governor, however, was spared the humiliation of failure. While engaged in a campaign against reb ...
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Nuño De Guzmán
Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán (1558) was a Spanish conquistador and colonial administrator in New Spain. He was the governor of the province of Pánuco (province), Pánuco from 1525 to 1533 and of Nueva Galicia from 1529 to 1534, and president of the first Royal Audiencia of Mexico – the high court that governed New Spain – from 1528 to 1530. He founded several cities in Northwestern Mexico, including Guadalajara. Originally a bodyguard of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles I of Spain, he was sent to Mexico to counterbalance the influence of the leader of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Hernán Cortés, since the King worried he was becoming too powerful. As Governor of Pánuco, Guzmán cracked down hard on the supporters of Cortés, stripping him and his supporters of property and rights. He conducted numerous expeditions of conquest into the northwestern areas of Mexico, enslaving thousands of Indians and shipping them to the Spanish West Indies, Caribbean colonies ...
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