Plaza de la Paz and the Basílica Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de Guanajuato (2004)

The city of Guanajuato is the capital of the state of the same name. It is located at 21°02′ N 101°28′ W (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=21_02_N_101_28_W_), 370 km (230 miles) northwest of Mexico City, at an elevation of 1,996 m (6,550 ft) above sea level. The estimated population in 2003 was about 78,000 people. Description: Photograph of Plaza de la Paz and the Basilica Colegiata de Nuestra Senora de Guanajuato, Guanajuato City, Guanajuato Mexico. ... Description: Photograph of Plaza de la Paz and the Basilica Colegiata de Nuestra Senora de Guanajuato, Guanajuato City, Guanajuato Mexico. ... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the federal capital of and largest city in Mexico. ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...

Guanajuato was founded as a town in 1554 and received the designation as a city in 1741. It is located in one of the richest silver mining areas of Mexico, and is well known for its wealth of fine colonial era Spanish architecture. Events February 12 - After claiming the throne of England the previous year, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason alongside her husband. ... Events April 10 – Austrian army attack troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz December 19 – Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia December 25 – Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale Celsius William Browning invents mineral water Elizabeth of Russia became czarina. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series Transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5 , d Density, Hardness 10490 kg/m3, 2. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ...

The historic town and adjacent mines are a World Heritage Site. Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ...

An aerial view of downtown Guanajuato

The name "Guanajuato" comes from the Tarascan word, "Quanax-juato", which means "place of frogs". Tarascan men reeling cord for nets & making nets, 1899. ...

In the Panteón catacombs to the west of the city is a famous cemetery noted for the natural mummies produced by the mineral content of the soil. In the late 1800s the town insituted a "burial tax" for the families of the deceased. Some of the poorest families were unable to pay the tax, so their relatives were dug up and placed on public view in a purpose-built museum. The state removed the tax in the 1950s and no more mummies have been disinterred. The word catacomb comes from Greek kata kumbas (L. ad catacumbas), near the low place and originally it meant a certain burial district in Rome. ... Mummified cat from Ancient Egypt. ...

The city of Guanajuato was the birthplace of artist Diego Rivera, whose house is now a museum. Diego Rivera Diego Rivera ( December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, was a Mexican painter and muralist, born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, of Jewish Converso heritage. ...

The city is also sit of one of the largest places in Mexico where mathematic boils in a public institution dubbed CIMAT.

Each October the city holds the Festival Internacional Cervantino, an international festival of the arts named after Miguel de Cervantes. The festival is a popular draw for young students from across central Mexico, but attracts participants and spectators from around the world. October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616), was a Spanish author, best known for his novel Don Quixote de la Mancha. ...

External links

• Photograhy of Guanajuato 2003-2004 (http://www.pbase.com/shmiller/guanajuato)
• University of Guanajuato (http://www.ugto.mx/)
• Photos of Guanajuato - Terra Galleria (http://www.terragalleria.com/north-america/mexico/guanajuato)