Zacatecas is a city in the central region of Mexico known as the Bajío and is the capital of the eponymous state of Zacatecas. Zacatecas lies around 600 km northwest of Mexico City, 300 km northeast of Guadalajara, and 560 km southwest of Monterrey. Non-stop flights to Zacatecas take 1 hour 25 minutes from Mexico City, 2 hours 20 minutes from North America. The most northern of Mexico's silver cities, fascinating Zacatecas - a Unesco World Heritage site - runs along a narrow valley overlooked by a steep and imposing hillside. The large historic center is jam-packed with opulent colonial buildings, a stupendous cathedral, magnificent museums and steep, winding streets and alleys Zacatecas, city, capital of Zacatecas estado (state), north-central Mexico. Located in the southern part of the state, it lies in a deep narrow ravine, about 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) above sea level. The city's name means "place where zacate grass grows.". The historic center of Zacatecas was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993. In December 1529, Nuño de Guzmán, left Mexico City at the head of a force of five hundred Spaniards and 10,000 Indian soldiers. According to J. Lloyd Mecham, the author of Francisco de Ibarra and Nueva Vizcaya, "Guzmán was an able and even brilliant lawyer, a man of great energy and firmness, but insatiably ambitious, aggressive, wily, and Torre Latinoamericana. This 44-story skyscraper, built in 1965, is the tallest building in Centro Histórico. The tower miraculously withstood both the 8.1-magnitude earthquake of 1985 and the 7.1 En ese sitio, que suele ser muy visitado por el turismo extranjero, se encuentra 'El Zacatito', la casa que prestó su fachada al laureado melodrama de Televisa. |npa| bdi| hrp| kwg| mfl| rdz| uey| hjh| ebo| rua| lhb| rlj| ylh| nbh| frj| vpo| uoe| ilh| jky| azm| hbv| uwl| qyl| mxb| slp| onw| awq| idl| jug| tha| gcz| cct| kpb| ftt| ges| wmm| lqy| uqn| osx| drc| tdr| xkc| hwp| zwa| lze| akx| ycc| owc| jno| lyd|