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56 unusual facts about Guadalajara


1990–91 Copa México

The competition started on August 22, 1990 and concluded on January 23, 1991 with the final, in which U. de G. lifted the trophy for first time ever with a 1–0 victory over Club América.

2008 Mexican Figure Skating Championships

The 2008 Championships took place between 12 November and 17 November 2008 in Guadalajara.

Aero Cuahonte

Aero Cuahonte was a commuter airline based in Uruapan, Mexico, operating scheduled and chartered passenger flights out of Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport in Guadalajara.

Archie Mayo

Archie Mayo (29 January 1891, New York City – 4 December 1968, Guadalajara, Mexico) was a movie director and stage actor who moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917.

Arco Norte

Plans are for the Arco Norte to be extended at its western end from the junction with the Mexico-Querétaro toll road to Atlacomulco and the junction with Mexican Federal Highway 126, a route to Guadalajara.

Ari Wallach

Ari was born in Guadalajara, Mexico where his father, a Polish Holocaust survivor and member of the Jewish underground in World War II, established a successful industrial infrastructure business after an 11 year stint in Cuba pre and post-revolution.

Azuqueca de Henares

Azuqueca de Henares is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

There is no university in Azuqueca but in several cities close: Alcalá de Henares and Guadalajara and Madrid.

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Bao Yixin

In 2010 she remarkable conquered two World Junior titles at the 2010 BWF World Junior Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Berengaria of Castile, Lady of Guadalajara

Berengaria of Castile (Seville, 1253 - Guadalajara, 1300), was an infanta of Castile and Lady of Guadalajara in her own right.

Bert Batawang

On December 15, 2007, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Batawang failed in his bid for the IBF crown, losing to Solís by technical knockout (TKO) in the ninth round of the bout.

Beta Cephei

The star is circumpolar throughout all of Europe, northern Asia, and North American cities as far south as Guadalajara in west central Mexico.

Boeing 737 Classic

September 16, 1998: Continental Airlines Flight 475, using a 737-500, received windshear while landing in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Border Crossing Card

BCC applicants at the consular sections in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Mérida receive a B1/B2 visa/Border Crossing foil that is affixed in the applicant’s passport instead of a card.

Chili Weather

Some Mexican mice see the Guadalajara Food Processing Plant and try to enter but are prevent by Sylvester guarding the place.

Cindy Ouellet

At the 2010 World Championships in Birmingham she won a bronze one following by a silver medal at the 2011 Parapan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

David G. Sorensen

Over the years he has also frequently worked and exhibited in Mexico and is currently represented by Ramon Quiroga in Mexico City, Galeria Vertice and Haus der Kunst in Guadalajara.

Dominican Republic women's national handball team

The team won the Bronze medal at the 2011 Pan American Games held in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Drug Wars: The Camarena Story

Fact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena (Bauer) who, while stationed in Guadalajara, uncovered a massive marijuana operation in Northern Mexico that led to his death and a remarkable investigation of corruption within the Mexican government.

Dulzaina

The instrument is deeply rooted in the folklore of Burgos, Segovia, Soria, in some areas of Ávila, Madrid, Guadalajara, Cuenca, León and Salamanca, less extended in the Basque Autonomous Community and widely used in Navarre and La Rioja.

Efren Herrera

At age 15, his family moved to the United States from Guadalajara, Mexico.

El Occidental

El Occidental is a Mexican newspaper founded on August 5, 1942 in the city of Guadalajara.

El presente

Apart from the acoustic presentation of her tour of the same name (El Presente Tour) include: at Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico with the collaboration of the group Nortec Collective in a version Electro/ranchera and Mariachi music typical of that state.

El Recuenco

El Recuenco is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

Enrique Zúñiga

Enrique Alejandro Zúñiga Castro (born July 7, 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico) is a Mexican professional basketball player.

Francisco Robles Ortega

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He currently serves as Archbishop of Guadalajara.

Guadalajara railway station

Guadalajara railway station (Spanish: Estación de Guadalajara) is a railway station in Guadalajara, Spain.

Immersion Games

Immersion Games (Immersion Software & Graphics Ltda.) was a game development company headquartered in Guadalajara, Mexico and Bogota, Colombia.

James B. Aguayo-Martel

James Benjamin Martel (born October 15, 1955, in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a physician, surgeon and scientist.

Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo

Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (11 November 1926, in Tarimoro, Guanajuato – 24 May 1993, in Guadalajara, Jalisco) was a Mexican bishop of the Catholic Church who served as the eighth archbishop of the see of Guadalajara and as a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Juan Sandoval Íñiguez

He was invested as Archbishop of Guadalajara in April 1994, replacing the murdered former incumbent, Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo,and later that year he was named a cardinal.

La Plebe

They also twice ventured further south into central Mexico to play in Mexico City, Guadalajara, along with many other smaller cities.

La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata

In the era of psychedelic rock and under the influence of American hippies of the late 1960s, a young band from Guadalajara headed by Javier Martin del Campo, formed with the intention of interpreting contemporary popular songs of the era in their own style.

Leandro Cufré

On 7 December 2011, same day he officially terminated his contract with Dinamo Zagreb, it was revealed that Cufré will be joining Mexican Club Atlas from Guadalajara.

Leonardo da Vinci Gymnasium

Also, there is an exchange program with schools in Mexico (Guadalajara) and China (Bejing).

Lorenzo Bereciartúa y Balerdi

Appointed Bishop of Sigüenza-Guadalajara in July 1955.

Los Claxons

In November 2008, Los Claxons opened for the Californian group Maroon 5 in the three concerts they gave in Monterrey, Guadalajara, and Mexico City, which broadened their exposure to the public.

Luke Kleintank

He currently plays Travis on the ABC Family hit Cable TV series Pretty Little Liars Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kleintank and his family moved to Guadalajara, Mexico, when he was two.

Luzón

Luzón is located on top of a small hillock peaked by the parish church which is dedicated to Saint Peter the Apostle and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara.

Model M keyboard

These keyboards were produced by IBM in their plants in Lexington, Greenock and Guadalajara.

Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi

Musa attacked Guadalajara, but received several wounds, being unable to mount a horse.

Pepe Guízar

José Guízar Morfín, better known as "Pepe Guízar", born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (February 12, 1912 - 27 September 1980), was a Mexican composer, poet and musician.

Rafael Zamarripa

When his group returned to Guadalajara, the director realized Zamarripa's potential as a producer and a director, equating his staging abilities with those of Amalia Hernández.

Rodel Mayol

He fought Omar Nino Romero on February 27, 2010, for his first defense of the WBC light flyweight title at the Coliseo Olimpico de la UG in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara

The succession of bishops continued under the Arab domination: after St. Eulogius, in 851, we find there Sisemund, a man of great sagacity.

The first bishop of Sigüenza, after it had been repeopled, was Bernardo, a native of Agen in France, who had been "capisol" (caput schola, Latin for school head(master)) of Toledo; he rebuilt the church and consecrated it on the Feast of St. Stephen, 1123, and placed in it a chapter of canons regular; he died Bishop-elect of Santiago.

Ryan Rhodes

Rhodes lost his WBC light middleweight challenge bout against Saúl Álvarez with a technical knockout in the twelfth round on 18 June 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Salvador Plascencia

Salvador Plascencia is an American writer, born 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Sangrita

A popular recipe in Guadalajara (Jalisco's largest city) was said to have originated from the leftover juices (mainly orange) of an equally popular regional fruit salad covered with fine chilli powder, usually piquin.

The Maidens' Consent

A rich, elderly bachelor (Diego) from Madrid and his servant, Simón, have traveled to the city of Guadalajara to escort a poor 16-year-old girl (Francisca) and her mother back to the capital.

Tom Fears

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Fears was the son of an American mining engineer who had married a Mexican woman, and moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of six.

Víctor Borja

Born in Guadalajara, Borja was part of the Mexican basketball team, which won the bronze medal in Berlin.

West of the Pesos

After realizing that he is on vacation in Guadalajara, another mouse comments that Speedy "would come all the way from Guadalajara to visit my seester Carmella."

Xia Huan

One year later at at the 2010 BWF World Junior Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico the couple almost managed to defend their World Juniors title reaching the final which they eventually lost to compatriots Bao Yixin and Ou Dongni (13-21, 18-21).


1942–43 Copa Mexico

The clubs Guadalajara and Atlas as well ADO (Asociación Deportiva Orizabeña) and Veracruz joined the league, so, the Cup Tournament of 1942-43 season was the first one in the Professional Era.

Antonio Mohamed

His climax was in Toros Neza when they had made it to the final against Guadalajara in the Verano '97 season alongside other famous players at the time such as Nildeson, Rodrigo Ruiz, and Germán Arangio.

Buga, Valle del Cauca

King Philip II of Spain gave Guadalajara de Buga its city status officially at the end of the 16th century and also granted its coat of arms for the many services rendered to the crown.

Campeonato Regional Centro

From the 1913–14 season onwards it expanded to include teams from six neighboring provinces (Ávila, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Segovia and Toledo).

Ceramics of Jalisco

The Tonalá tradition became known as “Tonalá ware” “Polished ornamental ware” or “Guadalajara polychrome.” A number of these pieces were exported Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, mostly to Spain but examples reached Italy and other areas.

Cristián Escalante

In September 2011, Escalante was named the flag bearer for the Chilean team at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Culture of Guadalajara

Among others who took Guadalajara as their home are architects Alexander Zohn, David Rockwell and Mathias Goeritz and painters such as José Fors, Felix Bernardelli, Lucía Maya, Lewis Kant and José Clemente Orozco.

Debinha

After representing Brazil in the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Debinha made her senior debut at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara.

Edward Dugmore

In 1951 he moved to Guadalajara, Mexico to study at the University of Guadalajara, where he received his M.F.A. He moved to New York City in 1952 and began exhibiting along with other Abstract Expressionist artists at the Stable Gallery, where he subsequently had three solo exhibitions.

Eucharistic Congress

The Congress ended with a celebration of the Mass in the Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, with a live link up between that Mass, and a simultaneous Mass celebrated in St Peter's Basilica in Rome in the presence of Pope John Paul II.

Frank Bagnack

He made his Second Division debut for FC Barcelona B on 8 September 2012 in a game against Guadalajara when he came on as a substitute in the 75th minute for Kiko Femenía.

Gabriel Flores

Gabriel Flores García was born on February 8, 1930, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, although some sources mention El Arenal.

HIV/AIDS in Mexico

Results from studies in 2006 by Gayet et al., Magis et al., and the Biological Behavioral Surveillance Survey conducted in Mexico showed that HIV prevalence rates among male sex workers were 25 percent in Monterrey, 20 percent in Guadalajara and Mexico City, and 12 percent in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl.

Jorge Wilmot

Exhibitions have been held in Mexico City, for San Agustín Etla in Oaxaca, Guadalajara and Monterrey, sponsored by MAP and other entities.

José Mariano Jiménez

Mariano Jiménez went to Mexico city to ask for the surrender of the city but the viceroy denied it, he went back to Guanajuato city and participated in her defense because the city was attacked by Calleja in November 24, after he went to Guadalajara and San Luis Potosí.

Juan Rulfo

He married Clara Angelina Aparicio Reyes (Mexico City, August 12, 1928) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on April 24, 1948; they had four children, Claudia Berenice (Mexico City, January 29, 1949), Juan Francisco (Guadalajara, Jalisco, December 13, 1950), Juan Pablo (México City, April 18, 1955) and Juan Carlos Rulfo (México City, January 24, 1964).

Longwood trolleybus turntable

A fourth known trolleybus turntable was one used on the Guadalajara trolleybus system in Mexico in the 1980s, in a since-closed trolleybus-only tunnel in the city centre, on a temporary basis in 1982–1983 and again from 1985 until early 1988 (when the tunnel closed for the start of work to convert it for use by Guadalajara's light rail system).

Luis Barragán

In 1947 he built his own house and studio in Tacubaya and in 1955 he rebuilt the Convento de las Capuchinas Sacramentarias in Tlalpan, Mexico City, and the plan for Jardines del Bosque in Guadalajara.

Luis Barragán House and Studio

During his career, he developed projects in Mexico City, Manzanillo, Guadalajara, Acapulco, La Jolla, CA but his best known work is that on Ciudad Satélite.

Lusones

The Lusones' lands were located in the Aragonese region along the middle Ebro, on the Moncayo range (Latin: Mons Chaunus) between the Queiles and Huecha rivers, occupying the western Zaragoza and most of Soria, stretching to the northeastern fringe of nearby Guadalajara and southern Navarre provinces.

Manuel Lepe Macedo

Manuel Lepe Macedo (April 17, 1936 in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco – September 9, 1984 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) Manuel Lepe was a Mexican artist who painted in a Naïve style, painting mostly themes based on the landscape and townscape of his native Puerto Vallarta.

Telepizza

The company had factories in Guadalajara, Barcelona, Móstoles, Alcobendas, but were later sold and all the production is made at a factory in Daganzo de Arriba, Madrid.

Tequila Express

The Tequila Express (or Tequila Train) is a Mexican regional train service that operates from Guadalajara, Jalisco, to the Tequila Herradura distillery at the San José del Refugio Hacienda in the municipality of Amatitán, Jalisco.

Tower of Álvar Fáñez

The medieval structure, formerly part of the city's defences, is named after Álvar Fáñez, "Conqueror of Guadalajara for Christianity".

William Reaside

Reaside coached a number of teams in South America, including Nacional of Uruguay, Newell's Old Boys of Argentina, and Asturias and Guadalajara of Mexico.

World Flute Society

The advisory board comprises Mary Youngblood, Peter Phippen, Dr. Andra Bohnet, Xavier Quijas Yxayotl of Guadalajara, Kevin Locke, and G. S. Sachdev.

Yélamos

Yélamos de Abajo, municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Yélamos de Arriba, municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain