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32 unusual facts about Chihuahua


Allisson Lozz

Allisson Lozano (born Allisson Marian Lozano Núñez on August 11, 1992 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua) is a Mexican actress model and singer.

Aranza

Her parents supported her and encouraged her to take singing classes, and at the age of 10, with the company of her father, Aranza sang at a live presentation in Chihuahua.

Batesville Casket Company

In addition to Batesville, Indiana, there are factories in Batesville, Mississippi, Chihuahua, Mexico, Manchester, Tennessee, Mexico City, Mexico, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Batopilas

Batopilas, Chihuahua, a town in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, and seat of Batopilas Municipality

Cristina Eustace

Cristina Eustace (born as Cristina Yasmin Rascón Meléndez on May 25, 1979 in the city of Chihuahua) is a Mexican singer better known for being the winner of the fifth season of Objetivo Fama, a Puerto Rican television singing talent contest in the form of a reality show, broadcast by Telefutura in USA and by Univision Puerto Rico.

Cristina Rascón was born in Chihuahua, Mexico on May 25 to Carlos Rascón and Cristina Meléndez.

Emerson Esnal Hernández

He qualified for the 2010 Central American Games in Puerto Rico, but withdrew due to injury, and in the same year finished 24th in the 50 km racewalk at the World Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Ever Magallanes

Everardo "Ever" Magallanes Espinoza (born November 6, 1965 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Mexico) is a former major league baseball player and all-star minor league player.

Fernando Baeza Meléndez

Fernando Baeza Meléndez (born January 21, 1942 Delicias, Chihuahua) is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Gabino Amparán

Gabino Amparán Martínez (born October 9, 1968 in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua), is a Mexican football manager.

Greer Skousen

Born in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, he was part of the Mexican basketball team, which won the bronze medal.

Hiromi Hayakawa

She is the daughter of Alfonso Javier Hayakawa, who is of Japanese descent and a native of Torreón, Coahuila, and Lourdes Elsa Salas, from the city of Chihuahua.

Jesús Olmos

Born in Chihuahua, he was part of the Mexican basketball team, which won the bronze medal.

Joaquín del Real Alencaster

Besides, he wanted to limit Mexican New products that could be traded at the annual fair in Chihuahua, Mexico and prohibit the sale of sheep to the Navajo people, so well as harvesting grain of the people of Río Arriba, that they had in order provisioning the Presidio of Santa Fe.

Jorge A. Rojas

Rojas convinced his parents, though none of them were Latter-day Saints, to send him to the LDS Church-owned Academia Juárez in Colonia Juárez so he could learn English.

Juan Molinar Horcasitas

Juan Francisco Molinar Horcasitas (born 18 December 1955 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua) is a Mexican politician and academic.

La Salle University of Chihuahua

The La Salle University of Chihuahua it is a university of Christian inspiration and prevailed located in the city of Chihuahua, it distributes studies of degree and masters.

Lemon Grove, California

In 1966, two male teenagers ventured into caves near Chihuahua, Mexico, in search of a mummy to keep for their own.

Luis Grajeda

Luis Enríquez Grajeda (born December 28, 1986 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico) is a professional welterweight boxer.

Margarita Gonzalez Ontiveros

Born in Parral, Chihuahua, and raised by her mother Guadalupe Ontiveros Mardueño and a musician and band director in Oaxaca, Prospero Gonzalez.

Mexican governors of New Mexico

New Mexico was at first a province of the Estado interno del Norte, with capital in Chihuahua.

Mexican National League

It was officially ranked as a Class B league in Organized Baseball and included six clubs that represented the cities of Mexico, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, Saltillo, and TorreónGómez Palacio.

Miriam Toews

Filmed in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, the film depicts the same Mennonite community that features in Toews' novel.

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Chihuahua

The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Chihuahua Campus (in Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Chihuahua) commonly shortened as Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Chihuahua or ITESM Campus Chihuahua, is a campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education private university system in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Noelia

Noelia also supports the Initiative "Juarez Sin Frio" a movement to raise funds to create a brigade to bring warm clothing and portable heaters to the villages in the high altitude mountains of Chihuahua, preventing deaths in winter due to the extremely low temperatures.

PBR World Cup

The second World Cup was held in 2008 at the Manuel Bernardo Aguirre Gymnasium in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Punta Ballena

Punta Ballena borders the resort Chihuahua to the west, it includes the Casapueblo citadel, the promontory of Punta Ballena, and the beach Playa Las Grutas to the east of it.

Second Battle of Rellano

The Second Battle of Rellano of 22 May 1912 was an engagement of the Mexican Revolution between rebel forces under Pascual Orozco and government troops under General Victoriano Huerta, at the railroad station of Rellano, Chihuahua.

This marked the high point of his rebellion, as he controlled all of Chihuahua except the town of Parral which was defended by Pancho Villa who had remained loyal to Madero.

Sharis Cid

Sharis Cid (born 5 September 1970 in Chihuahua, Chih., Mexico) is a Mexican actress who has participated in several telenovelas, like DKDA, Salud, Dinero y Amor and La Intrusa.

Starchild skull

According to Pye, the skull was found around 1930 in a mine tunnel about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Chihuahua, Mexico, buried alongside a normal human skeleton that was exposed and lying supine on the surface of the tunnel.

XHUA-FM

XHUA-FM is a radio station located in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico.


2011 Chihuahua Express

The 2011 Chihuahua Express was the fifth edition of the Chihuahua Express.

Agave shrevei

Agave shrevei is a member of the family Asparagaceae, indigenous to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, along the boundary between the states of Chihuahua and Sonora.

Arriba Juárez

Arriba Juárez is a magazine show currently airing on XEPM-TV, a Televisa station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Batopilas

Batopilas Municipality, a municipality in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico

Cathedral of Chihuahua

The building was slightly damaged during the French intervention in Mexico, repaired, and was designated a cathedral on 23 June 1891, with the erection of the Chihuahua diocese from the Diocese of Durango.

Copachisa

Copachisa (Constructora de Parques de Chihuahua, S.A. de C.V.) is an industrial design and construction company based in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, with regional offices in Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Mexico City.

Creel-Terrazas Family

He became vice-president of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, where he was responsible for the construction of part of the railroad west of the city of Chihuahua.

Gustavo Madero Muñoz (born 1955), a great-grandson of Juan Terrazas Cuilty, is a current PAN Senator from Chihuahua and currently is president of the Federal Senate in Mexico City and president of PAN.

Dasylirion durangense

Dasylirion durangense, common name "sotol," is a perennial plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico.

Enrique Perea Quintanilla

Prior to his assassination, Perea Quintanilla wrote in his last column that Dos Caras, Una Verdad had several video clips, photos, and documents sufficiently in detail to supposedly inculpate various politicians and officials in the government, including the then-governor of Chihuahua, José Reyes Baeza Terrazas.

Florida Mountains

The Florida Mountains are east and adjacent to New Mexico State Road 11, the north-south route to Chihuahua; it becomes Highway 23 in Chihuahua and connects to Mexican Federal Highway 2, the major east-west route of the north Chihuahuan Desert adjacent the U.S.-Mexico border.

Fort Hancock – El Porvenir International Bridge

The Fort Hancock-El Porvenir International Bridge is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande connecting the United States-Mexico border cities of Fort Hancock, Texas and El Porvenir, Chihuahua.

Francisco Martín Borque

Francisco Martin Borque was a Mexican entrepreneur, he was born in Soria, Spain in August 9, 1917 and died in December 24, 1998 in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port in October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras, was married with Ana María Bringas at February 15, 1949, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana.

Hacienda Humboldt

The Humboldt colonists already beginning in 1908 to emigrate to more active Mexican towns like Ciudad de Chihuahua and farming areas like the Mesilla Valley in the United States.

Hedeoma patens

It is native to the Sierra Madre Occidental along the boundary between the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora.

How Few Remain

After the Confederate purchase of the northern Mexican provinces of Sonora and Chihuahua, which extends the CSA-USA border and gives the Confederates a Pacific port (Guaymas), the United States declares war on the Confederacy.

Isaac Green Messec

In 1849, Messec joined in the California Gold Rush, leaving East Texas for California with a party of fifty men, he crossed the entire state of Texas, turned south at El Paso into Chihuahua, Mexico to avoid the Apache, crossed into Sonora by way of the Guadalupe Pass, followed the trail through the future Gadsden Purchase territory to the Gila River, and rode down the Gila to the Colorado River.

Jeffrey Max Jones

Jones was born and grew up in Colonia Dublán, Nuevo Casas Grandes, in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, and currently lives, by coincidence, in the birth home of George W. Romney, former Governor of Michigan.

Jenn Shelton

In 2006, she traveled with Scott Jurek, Christopher McDougall, and several other ultrarunners as the sole female runner to Copper Canyon in the remote southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico to run with the Tarahumara, for McDougall's book Born to Run.

Jesús de Cárdenas

The Republic of Rio Grande claimed as its territory the areas of Tamaulipas and Coahuila to the north until the Nueces river and Medina respectively, and all the states of Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and Nuevo México, among those present were appointed official representatives of the Republic of the Rio Grande.

Jesusita en Chihuahua

Jesusita en Chihuahua has been featured in many other films including The Three Caballeros (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945), This Was Pancho Villa (1957), ¡Cielito lindo! (1957), Sueños de oro (1958), Quiero ser artista (1958), La diligencia de la muerte (1961), Perdóname mi vida (1965), Three Amigos (1986), Like Water for Chocolate (1992), and My Family (1995).

José Perches Enríquez

He was granted a pension by Colonel Miguel, governor of the state of Chihuahua, so that he could continue his studies in Mexico City, and devote himself to education and giving concerts.

Los Luchadores

The series was about a group of lucha libre wrestlers led by Lobo Fuerte (Maximo Morrone) who, along with Turbine (Levi James) and Maria Valentine (Sarah Carter), fought villains such as the Whelp (voiced by Gary Lam), the pet Chihuahua of a mad scientist who eventually becomes an evil genius through a freak accident.

Margarita Gonzalez Ontiveros

Margarita Gonzalez Ontiveros (1 September 1927, Chihuahua – 29 May 2006, Cuernavaca) was a Mexican-born mezzo-soprano and contralto.

Milanesa

In northern Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chihuahua (due to U.S influence), it features lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise like a traditional sandwich, but the milanesa is also common in these regions as the main course of a meal.

Mykel Hawke

His first television job on season seven of MTV's Road Rules, 1998, where he played both the good guy who trained the kids to recover their kidnapped chihuahua and then played the bad guy on Snake Island taking the cast down one by one.

Necrotizing meningoencephalitis

Necrotizing meningoencephalitis has been described in numerous small breeds, including the Pug, Maltese and Chihuahua.

Pogonomyrmex californicus

The distribution of this ant extends from insect has a range that stretches from Texas to Utah to Baja California, Sonora, and Chihuahua.

Rude Dog

The team includes the stuttering Caboose (voiced by Frank Welker), the uptight Winston (voiced by Peter Cullen in an English accent), Reginald AKA Reggie (voiced by Mendi Segal impersonating Jack Nicholson), Barney (voiced by Dave Coulier in a Southern accent), Ditzy Kibble (voiced by Ellen Gerstell), Satch (voiced by Jim Cummings impersonating Ed Wynn), and a friendly Chihuahua named Tweek (voiced by Hank Saroyan).

Serdán

Aquiles Serdán Municipality, one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua in northern Mexico

Settling Accounts: The Grapple

A general advance seems to be made in Arkansas, and U.S. forces are pressing the offensive in Sonora and Chihuahua.

Sin Dejar Huella

In the film, Ana, a fake Mayan art smuggler, and Aurelia, a maquiladora worker, flee from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in Northern Mexico and those who pursue them to Cancún in the Yucatán peninsula province of Quintana Roo.

Taco Bell chihuahua

Gidget "The Taco Bell Chihuahua" (February 7, 1994 - July 21, 2009) was a popular advertising figure and mascot, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui, and developed by TBWA and used by Taco Bell, a division of Louisville, Kentucky (USA)-based Yum! Brands.