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| Querétaro (former formal name: Querétaro Arteaga) is a state in central Mexico. Its capital is the city of Santiago de Querétaro, although in general parlance the name "Querétaro" is used for both the city and the state. The name is thought to come from a phrase in the Otomi language meaning "the great ball game", or from a phrase in the P'urhépecha language translated as "place of stones". It should be noted that the area of La Cañada, east of Santiago de Querétaro, features a large gorge that resembles the two opposite walls that were used in the Native American ball game. Querétaro is bordered to the north by the state of San Luis Potosí, to the west by Guanajuato, to the east by Hidalgo, to the southeast by Mexico State, and to the southwest by Michoacán. The capital city of Santiago de Querétaro is located some 257 kilometres (160 miles) to the northwest of Mexico City. It is known for its Colonial Era architecture.(Information provided by Wikipedia. Click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quer%C3%A9tarofor additional information.) |
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Cities, Towns and Areas of Queretaro
Amealco de Bonfil |
Bernal |
Cadereyta de Montes | Corregidora |
El Marqués |
Ezequiel Montes
Juriquilla | San Juan del Río |
Santiago de Querétaro |
Tequisquiapan
Amealco de Bonfil
Amealco is a municipality in the Mexican state of Querétaro. Its name is thought to mean place of springs in Nahuatl. The municipality
seat, also called Amealco, is located 63 km southeast of Santiago de Querétaro. Its elevation is 2,605 meters above sea level, and the annual temperature
ranges from 15 to 20 °C. It is one of the oldest settlements of Querétaro, being founded in 1538 by Fernando de Tapia (also known as Conín) and Nicolás
de San Luis Montañez, who would also found the State capital. In the early XIX century, a group of French and Spanish entrepreneurs settled in the city and
began the logging industry, which at its peak was one of the main suppliers of wood to Mexico City, and also exported wood to France and the United States.
The governments of these two countries issued diplomas kept in the Palacio Municipal that certify the quality of Amealco's products.
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San Sebastián Bernal, better known as Bernal, is a
colonial village in Querétaro. It was founded in the year 1647, by Don Julian Velásquez Feregrino. Bernal is located 40 minutes by road from state capital
Santiago de Querétaro and two and a half hours from Mexico City. It is located in Ezequiel Montes municipality, a few minutes from Colón and Cadereyta. It has
a current population of 2909. 1377 are males and 1532 are females. 1014 persons are counted as Economic Active Population and there are only 630 inhabited
homes in town. It is known for its enormous monolith of massive rock, the Peña de Bernal, the third highest on the planet. The word Bernal is of Arabic origin and
the Spanish used it to name something big and elongated crag that was isolated out in a plain or in the sea. Likewise, in the Otomi language: Ma'hando, in
Chichimeca: De'hendo, has the same meaning: “In the middle of two." Recently, the town of Bernal acquired the title of Pueblo Mágico
("Magical Town"). The Magical Towns are admitted for being localities that have magic symbolic attributes, legends, history, transcendental facts,
that associate in each of his cultural manifestations, and that today mean a great opportunity for tourism.
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Cadereyta de Montes
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Cadereyta de Montes was founded in 1640, and it received its current name in 1642 to honor Viceroy Don Lope Diez de Armendáriz,
Marquis of Cadereyta. In 1904 the Montes last name was added to honor the lawyer Ezequiel Montes.
The region was quite important during the Spanish rule of Mexico, since it was a post from where the main trade routes were defended
from attacks of the Indians of the Sierra Gorda. From its conception, the city was intended to become quite important. It received the status of Alcaldía mayor
in 1689, thus becoming the dominant city in this part of the actual State.
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Corregidora
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El Marques is a municipality of the State of Querétaro, Mexico. It receives its name from Juan Antonio de Urrutia y Arana, the Marquis of the
Villa del Villar del Águila, who built the aqueduct that supplied water to the State capital for centuries. Its seat is the town of La Cañada. It forms part of the
Metropolitan Area of Querétaro, and is home to many state of the art industrial parks, as well as to Querétaro International Airport.
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Ezequiel Montes is a municipality in the
Mexican state of Querétaro. Its seat is the town of the same name, founded in 1861 by Julián Velázquez Feregrino. Its original name was Corral Blanco. The
municipality was created in 1940, including the nearby towns of Bernal and Villa Progreso, where you can find Saint Michael's temple built from the 1500 to the
1700s by the indigenous Otomies who lived in Querétaro and Jilotepec. The main attractions are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezequiel_Montes,_Quer%C3%A9taro vineyards and Villa Progreso.
Juriquilla is a small town north of Queretaro City. It was founded originally as an Hacienda in the 18th Century,
and fractioned into a golf course and residential area in the 1970's. It is located some 300 kilometres (186 miles) to the northwest of Mexico City,
and about15 kilometres (9 miles) north of the state capital Santiago de Querétaro. The main building of the Hacienda was built in 1707. By the end
of the 18th Century the owner of the property was "Pedro Antonio de Septién Montero y Austri," son to "Agustín de Septién y Montero",
from León, Guanajuato. Pedro Antonio moved from Guanajuato to Queretaro in his youth, and becaem "Alférez Real" of the city for almost 37 years.
He was also Dean and Mayor in many occasions. Pedro Antonio died in December 1814.In the 19th Century the "Hacienda" was bought by "
Timoteo Fernández de Jáuregui", who later sold it to "Bernabé Loyola". This last one sold the property to "Francisco Contreras" and
finally was bought by "José Mario Romero" a weatlthy business man from the nearby San Juan del Río. The Hacienda as finally transformed into a
Hotel by 1992.
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San Juan del Río is a city (2005 census pop. 120,984) and administrative seat of the surrounding municipality (municipio) (pop. 208,462)
of the same name in the central Mexican state of Querétaro. The population in July, 2007 is calculated in 128,270 for the city and 217,980 for the municipality.
The city and municipality both rank second in population in the state. The municipality has an area of 799.9 km² (308.84 sq mi). It is located on the country's
central plateau (altiplano), 127 km (79 miles) south-east of state capital Santiago de Querétaro at an elevation of 1,922 metres (6,306 ft). Famous for its
opals, mined at nearby La Trinidad, it is also an agricultural center (corn, wheat, sugarcane, beans, alfalfa, fruit, and livestock) and has some light industry. A
number of wineries are also located in the vicinity.
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Querétaro, formally Santiago de Querétaro, is the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro. It is also the municipal seat of the surrounding
Querétaro municipality. The city had a 2005 census population of 596,450, and the municipality had a population of 734,139. The municipality has an area of
759.9 km² (293.4 sq mi) and includes smaller outlying communities such as Santa Rosa Jáuregui. The city was founded in 1531. Its historic centre is a World
Heritage Site. Economic growth has been outstanding during the last decade. Today, Querétaro is a wealthy city in Latin America in terms of PPP GDP, with
$14.732, similar to that of advanced Eastern European countries. Querétaro debuted in 13th place in the 2006 rankings of the "Best Cities to do Business
in Latin America" in América Economía, a leading economic magazine. In the 2007 rankings, it is considered the second best place in Mexico to do
business, after Monterrey and the fifth best in Latin America, ahead of Miami in 6th place.
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Tequisquiapan is famous for its thermal waters, and for being the center of a wine and cheese producing region. The city serves as
municipal seat of its surrounding municipality of the same name. At the 2005 census the city showed a population of 26,858 inhabitants, the fourth-largest
community in the state in population, while the municipality had a population of 54,929. The municipality has an areal extent of 343.6 km² (132.66 sq mi) and
includes numerous smaller communities, the largest of which are San Nicolás and La Fuente. Tequisquiapan is especially noted for its wines and cheeses, two
entirely "new" foods that first made their appearance in the Americas with the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors in 1521. It was during Mexico's
colonial period, in what today is the State of Querétaro, that the planting of grapevines and the culture of wine making was first attempted and eventually took
hold. The Spanish conquistadors also brought cows, sheep and goats to the New World in 1492. During the first weeks of May, the vineyards of the area meet
in the central plaza for the Festival del Queso y del Vino. It consits of a three day wine and cheese tasting. This festival attracts many tourists each season.
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