Chipilo is a small city in the state of Puebla, Mexico. It is located 12 km south of state capital Puebla, Puebla, at a height of 2150 meters above sea level. Its official name is Chipilo de Francisco Javier Mina. The people of Chipilo are called chipileños. The Mexican state of Puebla is located in the center of the country, to the east of Mexico City. ... The city of Puebla – known more formally as Heróica Puebla de Zaragoza or less formally as La Angelópolis or Puebla de los Ángeles – is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of the same name, and the fourth largest city in Mexico just behind Mexico City...

History

Chipilo was founded on October 2, 1882 by immigrants from the northern Italian region of Veneto. Most of them came from Segusino and the surrounding towns in Treviso. Thus, the immigration to Chipilo is different from the Italian immigration to Buenos Aires, where most of the immigrants came from the southern regions of Italy. October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Veneto is a region in northeastern Italy, bordering on Lombardy, Trentino-South Tyrol, Austria, Friuli Venezia Giulia, and Emilia-Romagna, between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea. ... Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America. ...

The immigrants came to Mexico in search for fertile land, and running from the poverty that was plaguing Veneto at that time. Most of them decided to raise cattle, and the dairy products of Chipilo became famous in Puebla and other regions in central Mexico.

In 1982, the townspeople of Chipilo celebrated the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the city along with visitors from the Veneto region. In this celebration the city of Segusino, Italy, was declared the twin city of Chipilo. The term Twin city or twin town may be applied to one of the following notions. ...

Language

See Chipilo Venetian dialect. Jump to: navigation, search The Chipilo Venetian dialect is a diaspora language of the descendants of some five hundred Italian Venetian emigrants to Mexico from the nineteenth century. ...

External Links

• Description of the Venetian dialect of Chipilo, in Spanish
• Story of Chipilo, and old pictures of the city, in Italian
• Brief History of Chipilo and pictures of the city, in Spanish