Articles for Jalisco

Aguas Frescas
Beverages known as Aguas Frescas in Mexico are the perfect complement to the country’s cuisine.

La Yesca Dam
Hydroelectric dam La Yesca is located 105 kilometers northeast of Guadalajara, between the States of Jalisco and Nayarit. Its construction will create 10,000 jobs and cost 767 million dollars.

Mexico’s Bicentennial Celebration
Mexico is getting ready for an extraordinary celebration in honor of its 200th anniversary of its Independence and 100th anniversary of its Revolution. Everything designed to commemorate these two great dates is linked to the ideal of renewing Mexico’s identity and historic continuity.

Mariano Azuela
Mariano Azuela is outstanding for portraying raw social reality with compassion towards the oppressed and love for truth and equity, despising injustice and evil. His work severely critics asphyxiating social conventionalisms and the abuse of a corrupt regime, for which he proudly displays the emancipating process that gave hope to the Revolution.

INAH
The National Anthropology and History Museum (INAH) of Mexico is a public organism dedicated to the research, preservation, protection and publication of the prehistoric, anthropologic, archeological and historical heritage of Mexico.

Charreria
Charreria is a competitive and regulated activity, based on the equestrian practices developed during the Colonial era and Mexican Revolution.

Skydiving and Paragliding in México
Skydiving consists of jumping with a parachute from an airplane, helicopter or balloon. After a few seconds of free fall, the parachute opens, allowing the control of direction and speed.

Mexico's Best Architects
Luis Barragán was born in 1902 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He was one of the most important architects of the 20th century and the only Mexican to earn the Pritzker Award.

Prehispanic Gods of Mexico
At the center of this great city, the Mexica built a temple with an altar to this god, where they sacrificed prisoners of war in order to feed the sun’s energy.

Spring Break in Mexico
Spring Break 2009 will be from February 28 to April 5 in the United States. The most popular destinations in Mexico for American tourists