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10 unusual facts about Zacatecas


Casa Sanchez Foods

Casa Sanchez began when two immigrants, Roberto and Isabel Sanchez from Zacatecas, Mexico, established the first mechanized tortilla factory in Northern California.

Joara

Pardo was to pacify the native inhabitants, convert them to Catholicism, and establish a route to Spanish silver mines near Zacatecas, Mexico.

José Arlegui

He was first attached to the Franciscan province of Cantabria, then transferred to Zacatecas in Mexico.

Julio Ruelas

Born in Zacatecas, he lived in Mexico City from 1876, later attending the Colegio Militar and the Escuela de Bellas Artes.

Los Soneritos

They have toured various states in Mexico such as Veracruz, Querétaro, Zacatecas and Jalisco as well as the United States on a tour during April 2011 at Denver, Colorado.

Luis Valero

In September 2010, Valero won his pro debut against Luis Delgado at the Palenque de la Feria in Jalpa, Zacatecas, Mexico.

Niko Liko

Niko Liko's actual name is Antonio Gaytan Muruato, and was born October 22, 1939 in the town of Panunco Zacatecas.

Pascual de Gayangos y Arce

Born in Seville, he was the son of Brigadier José de Gayangos, intendente of Zacatecas, in New Spain.

Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas FC

ground = Estadio Universitario Unidad Deportiva NorteZacatecas, Zacatecas

Yolanda Pérez

She is sometimes known by the stage name "La Potranquita", (Spanish: "little filly"), a name taken by her father from his home city of Zacatecas, Mexico.


Area codes in Mexico by code

This range of area codes is currently reserved for Colima, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit and Zacatecas.

Camargo Municipality, Tamaulipas

Father Fray Hierro, who had joined Escandon at Padilla and was a missionary from the college of Zacatecas, kept a diary which provides many interesting details concerning the establishment of the first settlements of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Churrigueresque

In Mexico, are considered as the masterpieces of Churrigueresque style the Cathedral Basilica of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, capital of Zacatecas state, and the Parish of Santa Prisca, located in Taxco, Guerrero state.

Cobblestone

Many cities in Latin America, such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Zacatecas and Guanajuato, in Mexico; Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and Montevideo, Uruguay, richly influenced by many European architectural features, are well known for their many cobblestone streets, which are still operational and in good condition.

Florencia

Florencia de Benito Juárez, a municipality in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico

Francisco Goitia

Goitia was born in Patillos, Zacatecas on October 4, 1882, the illegitimate son of Andrea Altamira and hacienda administrator of Basque origin, Francisco Bolain and Goitia.

Jalpaite

It was first described in 1858 for an occurrence in the Leonora Mine, Jalpa, Zacatecas, Mexico and named for the locality.

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.

José de la Borda

José de la Borda (Joseph de Laborde in French; c. 1700 – May 30, 1778) was a French/Spaniard who migrated to New Spain in the 18th century, amassing a great fortune in mines in Taxco and Zacatecas in Mexico.

Juan de Tolosa

In what is now Tlaltenango, Indians showed him rocks containing silver and, on September 8, 1546, he found his way to the origin of the rocks on the Cerro de la Bufa at Zacatecas.

La Ferrería

On the east bank of the state a longitudinal zone can be found, that extends from the current state of Zacatecas to the la Laguna area between the entities of Durango and Coahuila.

Pablo Reimers Morales

He was born July 13, 1946 and raised in Zacatecas until 1961, when he left the state to attend high school at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Monterrey in 1961.

Silver Wheaton

The six mines from which the company gets most of its silver are : San Dimas, Penasquito, Barrick (made up of five parts), Yauliyacu, Zinkgruvan, Cozamin and Minto.

Votive paintings of Mexico

These include the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, the Sanctuary of Chalma in Mexico State, the Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de Patrocinio in Zacatecas, the shrine of the Virgin of Ocotlan in Tlaxcala, the shrine of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos in Jalisco and the sanctuary of Santo Niño de Atocha in Fresnillo.

Zacatecas Cathedral

The Zacatecas Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, is the head temple of the Diocese of Zacatecas.