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La Unión de Isidoro Montes de Oca is a municipality in the Mexican state of Guerrero and is the westernmost municipality in Guerrero. The municipal seat lies at La Unión. The municipality covers an area of 1,142 km 2 (441 sq mi). As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 25,230. [1]
Topolobampo (Spanish pronunciation: [topoloˈβampo]) is a port on the Gulf of California in northwestern Sinaloa, Mexico. It is the fourth-largest town in the municipality of Ahome (after Los Mochis , Ahome , and Higuera de Zaragoza ), reporting a 2010 census population of 6,361 inhabitants.
Over the years, animal rights groups demanded an end to the practice of throwing the goat. [1] In 1992, the local governor banned the toss. The villagers used ropes to lower the goat, but in 1993 they went back to dropping the goat from the church. [3] Once again, the practice was banned in 2000. A toy plush goat was thrown in the 2014 ...
Unión de San Antonio is a town and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is named after Saint Anthony of Padua since the first church built there was in his honor. As of 2005, the municipality had a population of 15,484.
The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Our Lady of Remedies Church) is a 16th-century Mexican Catholic parish church built atop the Tlachihualtepetl pyramid in the municipality of Cholula located in the central Mexican state of Puebla. The church was built with carved stone and embellished with 24-carat gilded panels and shims, called ...
The Casa de Cultura is in the municipal palace and sponsored by the Instituto Oaxaqueño de las Culturas. [18] Altar area of the Capilla del Señor de Tlacolula. The parish church, called the Church of "La Asunción de Nuestra Señora" was founded as a Dominican mission in the mid 16th century. It consists of the main church and the Chapel of ...
La Unión (Spanish pronunciation:) is the easternmost department of El Salvador. Its capital is La Unión. It covers a total of 2,074 square kilometres (801 sq mi) and has a population of 263,200. The department was created on June 22, 1865, and the city of La Unión was made its capital.
San Ignacio Bay and Navachiste Bay are popular for watersports. Guasave also features the viceroyalty towns as Tamazula, with its famous Franciscan era church. Nearby lie the ruins of Pueblo Viejo and Nío, which date from the time of the Jesuits from the 17th century until their expulsion in 1767. Visitors can also go to Parque Villafañe, a ...