GUANAJUATO, or SANTA FE DE GUANAJUATO

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GUANAJUATO, or SANTA FE DE GUANAJUATO , a city of

Mexico

and

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the above state, 155 M. (direct) N.W. of the Federal

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

, on a small tributary of the Rio Grande de Lerma or Santiago. Pop. (1895) 39,404; (1900) 41,486. The city is built in the Canada de Marfil at the junction of three ravines about 6500 ft. above the sea, and its narrow, tortuous streets rise steeply as they follow the ravines upward to the mining villages clustered about the opening of the mines in the hillsides.

Guanajuato

GUANAJUATO, or GUANAXUATO
GUANAJUATO, or SANTA FE DE GUANAJUATO

is sometimes described as a collection of mining villages; but in addition there is the central city with its crowded winding streets, its substantial old Spanish buildings, its fifty ore-crushing mills and busy factories and its bustling commercial life. Enclosing the city are the steep, barren mountain sides honeycombed with mines.. The climate is semi-tropical and is considered healthy. The noteworthy public buildings and institutions are an interesting old Jesuit church with arches of

pink

PINK

stone and delicate carving, eight monasteries, the government palace, a mint dating from 1812, a national college, the fine Teatro

Juarez

JUAREZ, BENITO PABLO (1806-1872)

, and the Pantheon, or public cemetery, with catacombs below. The Alhondiga de Granaditas, originally a public granary, was used as a fort during the War of Independence, and is celebrated as the scene of the first battle (181o) in that

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

struggle. Among the manufactures are cottons, prints, soaps, chemicals, pottery and silverware, .but mining is the

principal

PRINCIPAL

interest

INTEREST

and occupation of the population. The silver mines of the vicinity were

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

considered the richest in

Mexico

, the celebrated Veta Madre (mother lode) even being described as the richest in the world; and

Guanajuato

GUANAJUATO, or GUANAXUATO
GUANAJUATO, or SANTA FE DE GUANAJUATO

has the largest reduction works in Mexico. The railway outlet for the city consists of a short branch of the Mexican Central, which joins the trunk line at Silao. Guanajuato was founded in 1554. It attained the dignity of a city in 1741. It was celebrated for its vigorous resistance to the invaders at the time of the Spanish conquest, and was repeatedly sacked during that war.

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