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unusual facts about San Jerónimo, Baja Verapaz



Battle of Contreras

Scott settled down at "Peña Pobre" on the southwest of Mexico City, and from Zacatepetl hill, sent a force west across the "Pedregal", a lava field, to the town of San Jerónimo to flank the Mexican position at "Rancho Padierna", in Contreras.

Darío Gómez

Darío de Jesús Gómez Zapata, also known as El Rey del Despecho, (born February 6, 1951 in San Jerónimo, Antioquia) is a Colombian singer and composer of vals, corridos and boleros.

Los Alpes

In the early 1980s after the Mexican-1980s crisis, several families were forced to sell their houses to move to less expensive neighborhoods such as Ciudad Satélite and San Jerónimo.

San Jerónimo, Baja Verapaz

After the conquest of the Verapaces by the Spanish, the Hacienda de San Jerónimo was created, in the care of Dominican priests, it is believed that friars Luis Cancer, Bartolomé de las Casas, Luis de Ladrada and Pedro Angulo, were the first newcomers to the Valley of San Jerónimo, as Friar Luis Cancer ordered the construction of the Church in the year 1537 and, in the same year in October, took the news to the capital of the Kingdom of Guatemala.

There is a party and main fair held from 27 to 30 September each year, in honor of the patron Saint Jerome.


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