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Old barrio (neighborhood) of San Marcos. Isla San Marcos (San Marcos island theme park). The fair was celebrated for the first time around harvest time from November 5 to November 20, 1828, as a showcase of the state's produce and livestock. During that time it was in direct competition with the fairs of Acapulco, Jalapa and San Juan de los Lagos.
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]
The two most important local celebrations are Saint Mark's Day and the Feria Chiapas. The Feria de San Marcos (Saint Mark's Fair) occurs each April in the center of the city, honoring the patron saint of Mark the Evangelist. It includes offerings, fireworks in frames called castillos (castles), and pilgrimages for four days starting on the 25th.
Ya ni la jodes, con gente necia e ignorante como tu, que falsedad de información. Es lo malo de que el vulgo ignorante también meta mano aqui. Que vulgarité — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:9:3600:6BB:BD8A:EE63:84F9:4B52 ( talk ) 05:15, 29 March 2015 (UTC) [ reply ]
In June 1572, Spanish conquistadors led by Juan de Salcedo arrived in the Ilocos Region to subdue the native people and pacify the area. On October 1849, Governor-General Narciso Clavería issued a decree that led to the creation of La Union province, formed by merging towns from Ilocos Sur, Pangasinan, and the eastern part of the País del Igorrotes (now the Cordillera region).
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Towards the end of the 20th century, San Marcos became a hot spot for drug trafficking in Central America, and one of the top lords was Juan Chamalé Ortiz, who was heavily involved in cocaine trafficking, and was accused by US authorities of helping to move over 40 tons of cocaine through Central America en route to the United States. Ortiz ...
Instituto Cultural La Moira in San Miguel Chapultepec, Miguel Hidalgo, D.F.: according to legend this house is haunted by several paranormal entities; the most active is a young man named Marcos who died under mysterious circumstances during the 1960s. Allegedly when he was an eight-year-old boy, he entered the then-abandoned building and saw ...