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Homex is a Mexican construction and real estate company engaged in the development, construction and sale of affordable entry-level, middle-income and tourism housing in Mexico and Brazil. Founded in Culiacán in 1989, the company is headquartered in Culiacán and it is listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange. [1]
Both houses were designed by Gustave Umbdenstock, a French architect who had studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. The grand staircase was built in the French Second Empire Style . On the main floor, the staircase is preceded by a portal of paired columns, the shafts carved in a single piece of Bianco Carrara marble imported from Italy ...
With the emergence of henequen and the wealth it produced, the farms were transformed into haciendas which typically had a grand manor house, the machine house, and a chapel. Because a large population was needed to take care of the properties, workers were provided with housing and the amenities of a community. [ 3 ]
The proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. 17th-century Franciscan historian Diego López de Cogolludo offers two theories in particular. [8] In the first one, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, having first arrived to the peninsula in 1517, inquired the name of a certain settlement and the response in Yucatec Mayan was "I don't understand", which sounded like yucatán to the ...
Dalhousie (/ d æ l ˈ h aʊ z i / dal-HOW-zee) [2] was a town in Restigouche County, New Brunswick from 1905 to 2023. It was amalgamated with Charlo to form the town of Heron Bay. [3] [4] [5] The name Dalhousie is still retained for address purposes. Heron Bay is the northernmost municipality in New Brunswick.
Map of Mexico with Yucatán highlighted. Yucatán is a state in southeastern Mexico that is divided into 106 municipalities, organized into 7 administrative regions.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the twenty-second most populated state with 2,320,898 inhabitants and the 20th largest by land area spanning 39,524.4 square kilometres (15,260.5 sq mi).
Dalhousie is a geographic parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada. [ 4 ] For governance purposes it is divided between the city of Campbellton , the town of Heron Bay , the village of Bois-Joli, [ 5 ] and the Eel River 3 and Indian Ranch Indian reserves ; the municipalities are all members of the Restigouche Regional Service Commission.
One of Merida's twin mansions, known as the Cámara Houses or "Las Casas Gemelas" Cathedral of Mérida as it appeared in 2010 Mérida was founded in 1542 by the Spanish conquistadors , including Francisco de Montejo the Younger and Juan de la Cámara , and named after the town of Mérida in Extremadura, Spain.