- This article is about the Mexican city of Guadalajara. For other meanings, see Guadalajara
| Guadalajara |
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| Flag |
Coat of guadaljara Arms |
| Location |
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| Location in Mexico |
Location in the State of Jalisco |
| Administrative information |
| Country: |
Mexico |
| State: |
Jalisco |
| Region: |
Región Centro |
| Municipality: |
Guadalajara |
| Metropolitan Area: |
Guadalajara Metropolitan guadalajata gudalajara Area |
| Mayor: |
Ernesto Alfredo Espinoza Guarro |
| Geographic information |
| Area: |
187,9 km² |
| Elevation: |
1567 Mts |
| Coordinates : |
20°39′58″N, 103°21′7″W |
| Population |
| City Population (2005): |
1,646,183 |
| Metro Population (2005): |
4,100,000 |
| Density: |
8,769/km² |
| General information |
| Founded: |
February 14, 1542 |
| Demonym: |
Tapatío(a) |
| Time Zone: |
Central Time homes for sale guadalajara mexico zone {UTC -6} |
| - Summer: |
Central Daylight Time (UTC -5) |
| Postal Code: |
44100- |
| Area Code: |
01 (Mexico) - 33 real estate guadalajara mexico (Jalisco) |
| Website : |
H. Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara |
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Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Population
- 3 Economy
- 4 The las chivas del guadalajara People
- 4.1 Airport
- 4.2 Education
- 4.3 Sports chivas guadalajara guadalajara air fares and Culture
- 5 Disaster
- 6 Sister Cities
- 7 Gallery of Guadalajara
- 8 See guadalajara map torta guadalajara mexico also
- 9 External links
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History
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During the Colonial era, Guadalajara became the capital of Nueva Galicia and after the taser guadalajara War of Independence it became the capital of the Intendencia of Guadalajara.
Guadalajara was calidad del aire + estudios + guadalajara settled in three different locations (Nochistlán, Tonalá and Tlacotlán) before the Atemajac Valley where it now rests. Beatriz Hernández cheap airfare to guadalajara was responsible for escorts guadalajara choosing the location saying "I bet for my King and it is my belief that we shall go cheap airfares to guadalajara to Atemajac Valley, and if english teacher in guadalajara city jalisco it's done otherwise, it will be done in God's and the King's service, anything else would be showing cowardice". Guadalajara was then established expo guadalajara in Atemajac Valley on February 14, 1542 under the Royal order guadalajara furniture of king Charles V.
Guadalajara played guadalajara jalisco an strategic role during the Independence War, the Reformation War, and the Mexican Revolution of 1910. It has provided some of the finest artists, authors guadalajara mexico flight tickets and philantropists of the country and has helped to shape, as planos arquitectonicos catedral de guadalajara no other city bienes guadalajara mexico raices has, the culture of Mexico as known homeabroad.
Population
The Municipality of Guadalajara is the most driving directions from guadalajara airport populated in Jalisco with 1,646,183 inhabitants[1]. However, The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area hotel fiesta inn guadalajara also includes the municipalities of Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Tlajomulco, Zapotlanejo and Ixtlahuacán del Río, which together totaled lax guadalajara plane tickets 4,100,000 inhabitants in 2005. Guadalajara is the second most populous metro area after Mexico City.
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The city is named after the Spanish city of Guadalajara, whose name originates from the Arabic Wad-al-hidjara, meaning "River plaza del sol guadalajara Running Between Rocks".
Economy
The city refers to itself quintas guadalajara bodas as the Silicon Valley of Mexico. Such high-technology companies as casa guadalajara General Electric, Intel, Hitachi, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, Flextronics and Solectron have departamentos en renta en guadalajara facilities in the city or its suburbs.
Guadalajara is also a major trade, transport and communication center. It is dibujos de las chivas rayadas del guadalajara an important touristic destination center in itself and serves as an axis of an array of nearby touristic hotel fiesta americana guadalajara destinations (Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Mazatlan).
Guadalajara is well connected by modern highways hoteles guadalajara to Mexico City, to the Northwest and to the librerias en guadalajara major beach resorts of Manzanilo and Puerto Vallarta. Guadalajara's airport cooking classes guadalajara mexico is the fourth more active of the country (after Mexico City, Cancun and Monterrey) with direct flights farmacias guadalajara to many Mexican and American cities. It also has a lively and distinctive guadalajara radio formula melodica network of car-free streets.
The People
Most people from Guadalajara are known as tapatíos. historia d guadalajara As in the rest of the country, tapatios house condos apt rentals in guadalajara mexico are mostly mestizos (blend of Spaniard and Amerindian) and Catholic.There is, however, a large population of people of German, Slavic, and French ancestry iglesias en guadalajara in mapa guadalajara Guadalajara as well. There is an important American community in nearby Ajijic. A relatively important national evangelical church (Iglesia de la policia guadalajara Luz del Mundo) has its headquarters in this city.
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Celebrities born in Guadalajara include film star Gael García Bernal, asfaltos guadalajara tennis player Antonio Palafox, golf player Lorena Ochoa, footballer dr. mario alberto calderon guadalajara Oswaldo Sanchez, singer Vicente Fernández, singer Alejandro Fernández (Vicente Fernández's son), film director Guillermo guadalajara airport del Toro, artist Pedro Fernandez, and artist Xavier Martinez.
Airport
Guadalajara's University, Rectory Building
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Education
The Universidad guadalajara hotel in mexico de Guadalajara, the state's public university, has its guadalajara hotel mexico main campuses and administrative offices guadalajara newspaper here. This University is the second largest in Mexico and ranks among the then largest guadalajara weather report in the world. Guadalajara has campuses of several universities such as Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM), ITESO, Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), hotel fiesta americana en guadalajara Universidad Panamericana (UP), and Universidad del Valle de Atemajac hotel posada guadalajara (UNIVA), as well as the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG), the first and oldest private university in house for sale by owner in guadalajara mexico Mexico.
Sports and Culture
There are three major football clubs. The most important being: Chivas and, Atlas. Also, UAG relocation services guadalajara is associated with the first division football club Tecos. Atlas and Chivas share universidad autonoma de guadalajara the Estadio Jalisco, while Estadio Tres de Marzo is the home of the bodas en guadalajara mexico Tecos. A new stadium for Chivas, called the Estadio Chivas is currently under construction.
On 28 October bus service from puerto vallarta to guadalajara mexico 2004 Guadalajara was declared the American Capital of Culture for 2005.
Disaster
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Guadalajara is also known chivas rayadas de guadalajara for the great disaster of April 22, 1992, which took place in the downtown club deportivo guadalajara district of Analco. Numerous explosions originated in the sewer system, which was inexplicably colonia talpita guadalajara mexico saturated with gasoline fumes and gasoline. During a period of four hours, several explosions destroyed kilometers consulado americano guadalajara of streets; in particular, Gante street was the most damaged. The force of the explosions was such, that el sacromonte guadalajara some newspaper pictures show a bus atop a two-storied building's rooftop. Officially farmacia guadalajara 206 people were fiesta inn hotel guadalajara killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 were left homeless. The affected area can five star hotel in guadalajara be recognized by the more modern architecture, in stark contrast with the surrounding area, which has much older buildings. To date, Pemex, the guadalajara black and white map state-owned oil company, has not guadalajara jal accepted any responsibility for the enormous amounts of gasoline found in the sewage system, although it agreed to create a fund guadalajara maps to compensate the families affected by this catastrophe.
Guadalajara is also the site of guadalajara med school major seismological activity with a high-scale earthquake occurring about every guadalajara news 80 years.
Sister Cities
- Sevilla, Spain
- Lansing, Michigan, guia roji guadalajara USA
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
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