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From then on, the city went through a number of name changes: to Villa Viciosa in 1529, to Villa de San Cristóbal de los Llanos in 1531, and to Ciudad Real in 1536. It was changed to Ciudad de San Cristóbal in 1829. “de las Casas” was added in 1848 in honor of Bartolomé de las Casas.
Llanos el Salado is a large endorheic basin of central Mexico. It is located on the Mexican Plateau , and covers portions of several Mexican states, including eastern and northeastern Zacatecas , Northern San Luis Potosí , western Tamaulipas , southwestern Nuevo León , and southeastern Coahuila .
The Llanos (Spanish Los Llanos, "The Plains"; Spanish pronunciation: [los ˈʝanos]) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.
The first highland colonial town in Chiapas, San Cristóbal de los Llanos, was established by Pedro de Portocarrero in 1527. Within a year, Spanish dominion extended over the upper drainage basin of the Grijalva River, Comitán , and the Ocosingo valley.
Caribbean Mainland – Coastal and island regions of Mexico (such as the Riviera Maya, Cozumel, and Isla Mujeres), Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. Historic trade across the Caribbean Sea between these nations have created many cultural similarities.
José Manuel Torres Félix was born on 3 September 1958 in the town of Llanos del Refugio in Cosalá, Sinaloa. [5] [6] He had worked for the Sinaloa Cartel since 1990, but ascended to a high-ranking position after the capture of his brother Javier Torres Félix in 2004.
The Oriental Basin, also known as the Libres-Oriental Basin, Oriental-Serdán Basin or San Juan Plains (in Spanish, Llanos de San Juan or Cuenca de Libres-Oriental), is an endorheic basin in east-central Mexico. It covers an area of 4,958.60 square kilometers, lying in the states of Puebla, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz.
Llanos de Balbuena became the first airfield in Mexico. On 30 November 1911, President Francisco I. Madero became the first Mexican head of state to fly in a plane, when he flew in George Miller Dyott 's Deperdussin over Mexico City, taking off and landing in Llanos de Balbuena. [ 6 ]