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| Chihuahua is a state in northern Mexico with a mainland area of 244,938 square kilometers (94,571.1 sq mi), slightly bigger than the United Kingdom. It is surrounded by the Mexican states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango and Coahuila and the U.S. states of Texas and New Mexico. Chihuahua is the largest state in Mexico by area, and therefore has the nickname, "El Estado Grande." Although Chihuahua is primarily identified with its namesake, the Chihuahuan Desert, it has more forests than any other Mexican state. On the slope of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains (around the regions of Casas Grandes, Cuauhtémoc and Parral), there are vast prairies of short yellow grass, the source of the bulk of the state's agricultural production. As of 2005, there were 3.2 million inhabitants of the state. The largest city is the U.S.-border city of Ciudad Juárez, which has 1,301,452 residents (2005 census). The capital, Chihuahua, has 748,518 inhabitants. The state also has a large service sector: tourism, banking and high-tech enterprises. Chihuahua played a pivotal role in the Mexican Revolution and was a battleground between revolutionary forces led by Pancho Villa and federal forces. |
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One of the most notable features of Chihuahua is
the Barranca del Cobre, or Copper Canyon, a spectacular
canyon system larger and deeper than the Grand Canyon. Chihuahua
is one of the Mexican states that holds a slight population
plurality of people that are primarily of European ancestry (as
is the case in much of northern Mexico), with around 49% of the
state population being of European descent, commonly Spanish,
Italian, German, French, Irish, Russian and Dutch. Around 45% of
its population has mixed European and Amerindian ancestry (Mestizo).
The population of Amerindians in northern Mexico tends to be low
compared to the southern part, and Chihuahua is no exception.
While there are Amerindians in Chihuahua, they comprise only
around 6% of the state's population, and they mostly live in
isolated areas in the mountains. (Information provided by
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Cities, Towns and Areas of Chihuahua
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Álamos de Peña
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Batopilas
Batopilas is a small town and capital of the surrounding
Municipality of Batopilas of the same name, in the
Mexican state of
Chihuahua,
located along the
Batopilas River at the bottom of one of the canyons that make up the
Copper Canyon. It has a population of fewer than 2,000 people.
Batopilas was established by Spanish conquistadores starting in 1632
as a center for silver mining. Over the centuries scores of
hugely productive
silver mines have been dug in the area; one estimate (Wilson
and Panczner) is that mines in the area have produced seven
times as much silver as come from the famous
silver mine of
Kongsberg, Norway. Little mining is now done. Large
fortunes were made, most visibly reflected in a castle-like home
that
Alexander Robey Shepherd, the last governor of
Washington, D.C., had built after leaving the United States
in 1875.
It stands across the river from the center of the village and
has long been in ruins. As of
2006
it is occupied by a number of local families that give tours to
visitors for a small fee.
The main connection to the outside world is a 5-hour bus
connection to
Creel, the first half of which occurs on an unpaved mountain
road. The
Satevo mission, featuring a large church built four
centuries ago with a mysterious past, is 8 kilometers from
Batopilas, along the Batopilas River.
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Casas Grandes
Casas Grandes is a municipio (municipality) in the state of Chihuahua, northern Mexico, and also the name of its largest settlement and cabecera municipal (municipal seat). The municipality covers a total area of some 3,719 square kilometres (1,436 sq mi), representing approximately 1.51% of Chihuahua state's total area. As of 2005 census count data recorded by INEGI (in the II Conteo de Población y Vivienda), the municipality had 8,413 inhabitants.The pre-Columbian archaeological zone Casas Grandes and its central site, after which the municipality is named, is located within the municipality's territory. The site of Casas Grandes, alternatively known as Paquimé, is one of the most significant pre-Columbian cultural and archaeological sites in the region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States known in some archaeological contexts as the Oasisamerica culture area. (Information provided by Wikipedia. Click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo_de_Casas_Grandes for additional information.)
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| The city of Chihuahua is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It has a population of about 748,551. The predominant activity is light industry, in the form of maquiladoras. The City of Chihuahua is subdivided into Colonias (neighborhoods). The primary function of the colonias range in function between residential, commercial, industrial, and educational. There are many colonias in Chihuahua; among the better known are Centro (City Centre), Santa Rosa, San Felipe, Santo Niño and Rosario. In recent years, new residential zones called "fraccionamientos", rather than colonias, have been erected, some examples of which are Los Huertos, Campobello and Las Fuentes. The fraccionamientos function in the same way as residential developments in the U.S., with some upscale ones being gated, with controlled access such as Club Campestre de Chihuahua, San Francisco Country Club and Haciendas de Santa Fe among others. The growing construction industry is creating many new fraccionamientos in order to try to solve the overwhelming demand for new homes in the city, extending them at an ever-increasing rate every year. |
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The city of Chihuahua offers many places of interest for the tourist, especially the history buff, including the baroque Metropolitan Cathedral, seat of the Archdiocese (and the resting place of St Peter of Jesus Maldonado, a Cristero martyr of the 1930s), dating from the 18th century, the Government Palace from the early 19th century, and the City Hall from the turn of the 20th century, on the Plaza de Armas across from the Cathedral. During the French invasion and the Second Empire, which ended with the execution of the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian in 1867, the constitutional president, Benito Juárez García traveled the country, searching for support wherever he could. He found it in 1864 when he settled his cabinet and government-in-exile here in the city at the address now known as Ave. Juárez 321, and incidentally, making Chihuahua the only city, aside from Mexico City, to be the capital of the Republic. The Museo Casa Juarez, now known as The Museum of Republican Loyalty, has been faithfully restored to the appearance it had when President Juárez lived here from 1864 through 1866.
The city offers the service of the touristic "Trolley el Tarahumara" which is a special bus that goes around to all the main museums and monuments in the City Centre (starting its route at the Plaza de Armas), including parks like the Central Park "El Palomar", a large park that has a collection of sculptures, including one depicting three doves (palomas, hence the park's name) and a monumental flagpole, flying one of the largest flags in the Republic, as well as a statue of one of Chihuahua's favourite sons, the late actor Anthony Quinn, in his famous role as 'Zorba the Greek', as well as many others. The city is renowned for its classical and modern sculpture, as seen on any main boulevard or avenue. Included are works by Espino, Baltazar, Ponzanelli and Sebastian, the latter being a native of Chihuahua.
Particularly
noteworthy are the murals in the
Government Palace and the
Paraninfo, or University
Auditorium (in the Literary and
Scientific Institute building)
both depicting the history of
the State of Chihuahua, and both
fronting upon the Plaza Hidalgo
in the city centre, and catter-cornered
from the Plaza Mayor (listed
below). Also of note is the
Quinta Gameros, one of the
largest estate houses in
pre-revolutionary Chihuahua
City, now the state museum for
the decorative arts, and the
former Federal Palace of
Chihuahua on Venustiano Carranza
Street, north of the Government
Palace, which is now a museum
and contains the cell in which
Miguel Hidalgo spent his final
days, and is a national shrine.
The Mammoth
Museum, at Gomez
Morin (also
Calle 27a) and
Ave. Juarez, is
the city natural
history museum
and contains 13
halls detailing
prehistoric life
from the
dinosaurs
through the
reign of the
mammals, or the
Cenozoic Era. It
also has
exhibits of
prehistoric art.
The Semilla
Museo Centro de
Ciencia y
Tecnología, or
Seed
Centre Museum of
Science and
Technology, on
Teofilo Borunda
and Lisboa in
the City Centre,
is a creative
learning centre
and interactive
science museum
for children. (Information provided by
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for additional information.)
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Quality Inn Chihuahua San Francisco – The Quality Inn Chihuahua San
Francisco provides the perfect location right in the historic downtown
district. Nearby points of interest include:
Copper Canyon -
Basaseachic Falls - Palacio de Gobierno - Pancho Villa Museum
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Universidad Autonoma of Chihuahua. Additionally, the
town is full of history, shopping, museums and turn-of-the-century
architecture. The surrounding area is filled with amazing scenery with
mountains, canyons, deserts and spectacular waterfalls, one of which is
the highest in Mexico. Several restaurants are located nearby, including
the In
Degá restaurant and the
Los Primos
lobby bar, both located on hotel premises. The Quality Inn Chihuahua San Francisco provides guests with many amenities including: Free continental breakfast - Free airport transportation - Free weekday newspapers - Free local calls - Wireless high-speed Internet access – a business center, copy and fax services, meeting rooms, in-room desks and computer hook-ups. All rooms at this Chihuahua, Mexico hotel include coffee makers, cable television, hair dryers, irons and ironing boards. Some rooms include sofa sleepers, while other rooms are designated non-smoking. Guests will appreciate the multi-lingual staff, bellmen and valet cleaning service. The Quality Inn Chihuahua San Francisco hotel has been named a Choice Hotels 2007 Inn of the Year winner. This hotel exemplifies the highest standards of guest satisfaction and hotel excellence as determined by guest survey scores. |
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| Ciudad Juárez, more commonly known as just Juárez, is a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua formerly known as El Paso del Norte. Juárez has an estimated population of 1.5 million people. It stands on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), across the border from El Paso, Texas. El Paso and Ciudad Juárez comprise one of the largest binational metropolitan areas in the world with a combined population of 2.5 million people. In fact, Ciudad Juárez is one the fastest growing cities in the world. For instance, a few years ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published that in Ciuad Juárez “the average annual growth over the 10-year period [1990-2000] was 5.3 percent. Juárez experienced much higher population growth than the state of Chihuahua and than Mexico as a whole.” In 2000, the United Nations reported that the world's population was growing at a rate of 1.14%. |
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More than 60,000 people cross the Juárez-El Paso border every day making it a major port of entry and transportation for all of central northern Mexico. The city has a growing industrial center which is made up in large part by the more than 300 maquiladoras (assembly plants) located in and around the city. According to a recent New York Times article, Ciudad Juárez “is now absorbing more new industrial real estate space than any other North American city.” In 2008, Ciudad Juárez was designated as “The City of the Future” by the prestigious magazine “Foreign Direct Investment” published by the influential “Financial Times group.” (Information provided by Wikipedia. Click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez for additional information.)
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The town of Madera
is an active logging community in the mountains
of the northwestern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
It is at 2112 metres above sea level and was
founded in 1906. It serves as the municipal seat
for the municipality of Madera. The town is
located 276 kilometres northwest of the state
capital, Chihuahua, and 536 km southwest of
Ciudad Juárez on the U.S. border. Madera is a
beautiful city surrounded by the great Sierra
Madre mountains (Southern stretch of the Rocky
Mountains in USA). Madera is Spanish for
"wood", there use to be a large U.S. company
with large lumber mills, there is still a
section of the city called "barrio americano"
where some American-style wooden houses still
survive. The lumber industry is still very
important. There is also some agriculture and
cattle ranches in the Municipio (which is about
the equivalent of a county). New manufacturing
industries have created new employment for the
residents. (Information provided by
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Cuauhtémoc is a city and the seat
of the Cuauhtémoc municipality located in the
west-central part of the state of Chihuahua in
Mexico. It lies 103 km (64 mi) west of the state
capital of Chihuahua. The city had a 2005 census
population of 98,725 inhabitants, while the
municipality had a population of 134,785. The
municipality, which has an area of 3,018.9 km²
(1,165.6 sq mi), includes many smaller outlying
communities, the largest of which is Colonia
Anáhuac. Cuauhtémoc is the fifth-largest city in
population in the state of Chihuahua. It is the
home of around 200,000 Mennonite people divided
into various colonies that surround the city.
The city is also know for its "manzana" which is
apple. The climate in the municipality its
semiarid—temperate around -5 to 12 Celsius in
winter with frequent snowfalls and 20-32 Celsius
in summer with arid climate and strong
hailstorms that create damage in surrounding
fields. (Information provided by
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Delicias
Delicias is the third-largest city in
the
Mexican state of
Chihuahua, and serves as the seat of the
municipality of the same name. It is located
southeast of the
state capital, the city of
Chihuahua. The city had a
2005 census population of 108,187, and its
municipality 127,211. Founded on
7 January
1935 it claims to be Mexico's youngest city.
This city has grown extremely fast in the past
10 years with more and more homes and businesses
being built.
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El Tule
El Tule is a town, and one of the 67 Municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The capital lies at San Lorenzo. The municipality covers an area of 409.4 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 1818. (Information provided by Wikipedia. Click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Tule,_Chihuahua for additional information.)
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Nuevo Casas
Grandes, also known as Nueva Casas
Grandes, is a city and its surrounding
municipality in Mexico. It is located in
the northwestern part of the state of
Chihuahua, on the Casas Grandes or San
Miguel river, situated in a wide,
fertile valley on the 4,000-foot Mesa
del Norte of the Plateau of Mexico.
Nearby is the Sierra Madre Occidental.
The city of Nuevo Casas Grandes, which
had a 2005 census population of 50,863,
serves as municipal seat of the
municipio, which had a population of
54,411. The city was founded in the
1870s. Nuevo Casas Grandes got its name
from another town about a mile away
called Casas Grandes. A train station
was built in that area and soon people
migrated near it. Many of the region's
inhabitants were of Native American
ethnic groups closely related to those
of the American Southwest.
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The area around Nuevo Casas Grandes is noted for its great historical and archaeological heritage. Five miles southwest of Nuevo Casas Grandes is the most important archaeological site in northern Mexico, including the Casas Grandes Archaeological Zone and the Paquimé Archaeological Zone highlighted by the new Paquimé (which, translated to Spanish, means "Big Houses" or Casas Grandes) Museum. Nuevo Casas Grandes is also world famous for the nearby "potter village" of Mata Ortiz an ejido and its revival of pottery in the ancient Paquimé tradition.
Living peaceably nearby are Mennonite and Mormon communities. Both groups are bilingual with Spanish as their second language. The Mennonites are Old Order Mennonites and speak their own dialect of German, while those in the Mormon community who are of North American descent speak English. As Nuevo Casas Grandes has grown in the last few decades, it now meets on the north side with the Mormon colony, Colonia Dublán. Many who reside near Nuevo Casas Grandes endeavor to maintain orchards which grow a variety fruits, including peaches, apples, pears, and pecans. There is also significant activity in wheat and cattle. There is an effort to expand the bed and breakfast sector. Nuevo Casas Grandes has an airport, Nuevo Casas Grandes, airport code NCG. (Information provided by Wikipedia. Click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuevo_Casas_Grandes for additional information.)
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| Hidalgo del
Parral, is both a city and the municipality of which it
serves as the municipal seat in the Mexican state of
Chihuahua. It is located in the southern part of the
state, 220 km from the state capital, the city of
Chihuahua, Chih. The city's population was 101,147 at
the 2005 census, and the municipality's population was
103,519. The municipality includes numerous very small
outlying communities in addition to the city. The city
was founded as San José del Parral. The name was changed
after independence from Spain, in honour of Fr Miguel
Hidalgo, widely considered the 'Father of the Country'.
The Palacio
Alvarado belonged one of the most
prominent silver families in Parral,
owning the mine called “La Palmilla.”
This family was rich enough to offer
President Porfirio Díaz the means to pay
an external debt that Mexico had. El
Palacio was constructed by Federico
Amérigo Rouvier and now a museum and
cultural center. It has preserved much
of the original European-made furniture.
The walls of the patio were painted by
Italian painter Antionio Decanini
between 1946 and 1948. The Hotel Hidalgo
was a gift from Don Pedro Alvarado to
Pancho Villa and is located next to the
Plaza Guillermo Baca. The Casa de la
Familia Griensen (the Griensen Family
House), is where Elisa Griensen was
born. She distinguished herself in
Parral history by fighting against a
contingent of U.S. soldiers sent to
capture Pancho Villa after he crossed
the border and attacked Columbus, New
Mexico.
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The Casa Museo Francisco Villa is located where Villa’s enemies waited days for him to pass and ultimately assassinated him in 1923. Every year in January, his death is reenacted here. Casa Stall Forth belonged to the Forth family, who, along with the Alvarado family, became the towns main benefactors, contributing much to its infrastructure. (Information provided by Wikipedia. Click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidalgo_del_Parral for additional information.)
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San Buenaventura
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San Francisco de Borja
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San Francisco de Conchos
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San Francisco del Oro
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San Francisco Javier de Satevo
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San Lorenzo
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Santa
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Santa Cruz de Rosales
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Santa Eulalia
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Santa
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Santa
Rosalía de Camargo
Santa Rosalía de Camargo, originally called
Santa Rosalia, is a city in the eastern part of the Mexican
state of Chihuahua. It serves as municipal seat of Camargo
municipality. It is a colonial town steeped in history. The
Mission Santa Rosalía is beautiful with a park. Camargo is
within a short distance of a small pueblo called Chavirra, and a
short distance up the road to the old Presidio San Francisco de
Conchos near Lake Boquilla and Lake Colina known as places for
tourists to come especially in the summer season as well as Los
Filtros. During the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Spaniards
came in and waged war against the Native Conchos Indians who
lived there. During the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa also
invaded Camargo. Other Native tribes such as the Apache Indians
came down from the Ojinaga, Chihuahua region not far from El
Paso, and waged war against the Conchos Indians. Some used the
Rio Grande as well as the Conchos River to ride their horses
into the region. The River provided water as a source supply for
survival. The San Francisco de Conchos area was attacked by
various tribes. The region is known for agriculture, cattle,
corn, pecan trees and is surrounded by nearby mountains. There
is a wide range of (race) mixture of a diverse culture such as
Mexican, Spanish, Mestizos, Basque, Portuguese, French, Italian,
German, Mennonites, South African Boers and Conchos Indians. The
Tarahumara Indians come into Camargo to sell goods to the local
people to make money they live throughout the region up in the
mountains. Some reside in Creel and the Sierra Madres. The INEGI
census of 2005 showed a population of 39,149 in the city of
Santa Rosalía de Camargo, while Camargo municipality had a
population of 47,209.
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Santiago de Coyame
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Saucillo
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Témoris
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Temósachi
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Urique
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Uruachi
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Valle de Allende
Valle de Allende is the
municipal seat and largest city of the
municipality of Allende in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Originally named Valle de San Bartolomé,
it was founded in 1569 by Franciscan monks. The
city is one of the oldest in Chihuahua. The city
received its current name in 1825 in honor of
Ignacio Allende, a military leader during the
Mexican War of Independence.
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Valle de Zaragoza
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Valle del
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Vicente Guerrero
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Villa
Ahumada
Villa Ahumada (officially Miguel Ahumada) is
a town in northern Mexico with about 9,000 inhabitants (2008),
located in the state of Chihuahua along Highway 45, about 130 km
south of Ciudad Juárez and 247 km north of the city of
Chihuahua. The city has several roadside restaurants and burrito
stands and is known for its good cheese. Villa Ahumada entered
the international news in 2008 when it was terrorized for
several hours by an out of town gang. This was presumably part
of the wave of drug-smuggling related violence in Mexico that
resulted in about 4,000 deaths between early 2007 and mid 2008.
At the night of May 19, 2008, dozens of men drove through town,
firing assault rifles and killing the police chief, two police
officers and three civilians, and abducting at least 10 people.
The remaining policemen then left, and the state and federal
governments sent troops to restore order. Officials did not
offer a theory about the perpetrators. According to local
rumors, the town's drug dealers had been aligned with police and
were linked to the Juárez Cartel. After a local drug boss was
killed and another arrested, a rival gang was possibly trying to
take over the drug trade along the route from Ciudad Juárez to
the state of Sinaloa.
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Chihuahua - For information on hotels, resorts and other accommodations in
Chihuahua, click on Accommodations in Chihuahua.
Ciudad Juarez-For information on hotels, resorts and other accommodations in
Ciudad Juarez, click on Accommodations in
Ciudad juarez.
| My preferred hotel chain is
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Getting To and Around Chihuahua
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Restaurant and Dining Suggestions
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Books, Maps, Travel Guides and More
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