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During the Independence movement, due to its geographical location, the municipality of Guadalupe was the scene of various relevant events.From January 27 to February 5, 1811, after his defeat in the Battle of Puente de Calderón as he moved towards Northern Mexico, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla stayed in Guadalupe for 10 days, this fact gave rise to the musical composition "Las Mañanas de ...
Guadalupe is a city and surrounding municipality located in the state of Nuevo León, in northern Mexico.It is part of the Greater Monterrey Metropolitan area.. The municipality of Guadalupe, which lies adjacent to the east side of Monterrey, also borders the municipalities of San Nicolás de los Garza, Apodaca, Pesquería, and Juárez.
Christopher Columbus named the island Santa María de Guadalupe in 1493 after Our Lady of Guadalupe, a shrine to the Virgin Mary venerated in the Spanish town of Guadalupe, Extremadura. [4] When the area became a French colony, the Spanish name was retained – though altered to French orthography and phonology. The islands are locally known as ...
Tepeyac or the Hill of Tepeyac, historically known by the names Tepeyacac and Tepeaquilla, is located inside Gustavo A. Madero, the northernmost Alcaldía or borough of Mexico City. According to the Catholic tradition, it is the site where Saint Juan Diego met the Virgin of Guadalupe in December 1531, and received the iconic image of the Lady ...
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548), [a] also known simply as Juan Diego (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌxwanˈdjeɣo]), was a Nahua peasant and Marian visionary.He is said to have been granted apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe on four occasions in December 1531: three at the hill of Tepeyac and a fourth before don Juan de Zumárraga, then the first bishop of Mexico.
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, is celebrated on Dec. 12. In New York, a church of the same name is a seminal part of the city's Spanish and Hispanic history.
In 2015, 10,000 northern elephant seals were estimated to live on Guadalupe Island and 40,000 Guadalupe fur seals were estimated to inhabit the Pacific Islands of Mexico, including Guadalupe. [15] Introduced feral cats (Felis catus) have caused the extinction of six species of birds on Guadalupe Island. About 400 cats remained on the island in ...
Guadalupe Island (Spanish: Isla Guadalupe) is a volcanic island located 241 kilometres (130 nautical miles) off the western coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and about 400 km (200 nmi) southwest of the city of Ensenada in the state of Baja California, in the Pacific Ocean. [1] The various volcanoes are extinct or dormant.