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Chan Santa Cruz was a late 19th-century indigenous Maya state in modern-day Quintana Roo.It was also the name of a shrine that served as the center of the Maya Cruzoob [note 1] religious movement, and of the town that developed around the shrine, now known as Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
The most traditional and important Navidad decoration is the nativity scene. It is generally set up by December 12, left on display until February 2, and is found in homes and churches. Nativity scenes were introduced to Mexico in the early colonial period when the first Mexican monks taught the Indigenous people to carve the figures.
Columbus called the port Puerto de la Navidad ("Christmas Port"), the day he landed there. He appointed Diego de Arana, chief constable of the fleet and son of Rodrigo, Pedro Gutiérrez, butler of the Spanish royal dais, and Rodrigo de Escobedo to govern the fortress of 36 men. They included carpenters, calkers, a physician, a tailor, and a gunner.
Navidad Formation, a geological formation in Chile; La Navidad, a settlement in what is now Haiti; Barra de Navidad, town in the Mexican state of Jalisco; Navidad Lake, Bolivian lake; Navidad Bank, submerged bank in the Atlantic Ocean; Navidad River, coastal river in the U.S. state of Texas; Navidad mine, a large silver mine in Argentina
The Departments of Antioquia, Caldas, Quindío, and Risaralda, and the municipality of Funza, diocese of Facatativá, have a large population of Basque descent, who carry on the tradition of the Día de la Santa Cruz ("Day of the Holy Cross") or Día de los Mil Jesuses ("Day of the Thousand Jesuses") on 3 May. People speak the name of Jesus one ...
Barra de Navidad ("Christmas Sandbar") is a small farming and fishing community located on the east end of the Bahía de Navidad, 60 km north of Manzanillo, Colima. In recent years, the Jalisco state government has promoted Barra as a tourist attraction of the Costalegre .
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The Bosque de los árboles de navidad (Christmas trees forest) is a tourist park and a greenhouse located in Amecameca, State of Mexico, Mexico. The park is about 988.4 acres (4.000 km 2). The park was founded in 1960. Every year there is a planting of about 350,000 new trees. The trees that are cut during Christmas time are 10 years old.