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  Aguascalientes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aguascalientes (a Spanish name meaning "hot waters" for the abundance of hot springs in the area; so the corresponding adjective for the state and its inhabitants is the whimsical hidrocálido) is a state of Mexico, situated in the center of the country.
The state capital is the city of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes.
The state was, at a time a major silver miner and a major source of railroad transportation, the latter due to its strategical location in the very center of the country, midway between the 3 most populated areas, namely Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
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 Aguascalientes (state)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aguascalientes is the name of a city and a state in Mexico.
Aguascalientes (a Spanish name meaning "hot waters"; the corresponding adjective for the state and its inhabitants is the whimsical hidrocálido) is a State of Mexico, situated in the center of the country.
The state capital is the city of Aguascalientes.
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 Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The city of Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes in western central Mexico.
Aguascalientes is home to several outstanding museums and one of the country's leading provincial theatres.
The State History Museum is located in an elegant house typical of the Porfirian period, It is Mediterranean in Style, with a French academiscm facade, interior columns, and arcade, pink quarry dining room, and a Noveau central patio, with ornamental motives of vegetables.
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 History of Mexico - The State of Aguascalientes
In 1617, Aguascalientes was separated from Lagos de Moreno and given the status of an alcaldía mayor.
Aguascalientes continued to grow in the next two centuries, in spite of periodic epidemics, which wreaked havoc on the indigenous population.
Aguascalientes is a state that is rich in culture, history, art and economic potential.
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 Introduction. Aguascalientes
The coat-of-arms of Aguascalientes has a fountain, a caldron and coals which represent one of the main features of its territory: hot springs.
Aguascalientes is one of the 31 states of the Mexican Republic.
The city of Aguascalientes, its capital, is the largest in the state.
elbalero.gob.mx /kids/explora/html/aguasc   (184 words)

  
 CB Richard Ellis | Team NAFTA
Aguascalientes, the capital of the State with the same name, has an estimated population of 643,419 people according to the 2000 census, though 2002 estimates set the number at 688,458 people.
The city is located 508 miles south of the U.S. border and 313 miles north of Mexico City at an elevation of 6,181 ft. The state of Aguascalientes is surrounded by the state of Zacatecas to the north and the state of Jalisco to the south.
Aguascalientes is the state in Mexico with the lowest incidence of union unrest.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aguascalientes Aguascalientesäand180;gwäskälyān´tās, äand180;wäs- [Span.,=hot waters], state (1990 pop.
28° N into the state of Baja California in the north, and the state of Baja California Sur in the south.
A rapidly growing state, Baja California is a center of development for maquiladoras, foreign-owned assembly plants that produce finished goods for ex...
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 MexOnline.com Aguascalientes, Mexico
The economic growth of this small but vigorous state, has reached 6.8% in the last five years, more than double the national average of 2.8%.
The state is one of the most stable in terms of worker-employer relations evidence by the fact that not a single strike has taken place in the last two decades.
World business leaders who have already located in the state, share our vision and, together with our local business community, our industrious labor force, and our imaginative policy makers, have joined hands and laid the foundation for a prosperous and happy society in this, "the state of the friendly people".
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 Company News On Call
The city of Aguascalientes will notify the Ministry of Finance of the State of Aguascalientes that it has transferred to the master trust its rights to receive a 100% of the tax participation revenue that belong to the City of Aguascalientes.
The city of Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes, located in central Mexico.
The city is the largest in the state with approximately 643,419 residents (68% of the total state's population), and a major industrial center.
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 Tour By Mexico ® - Aguascalientes State --- 13
It is located on the western side of the Mexican highlands between 21º 23' and the 22º 28' north latitude and 101º 53' and 102º 50' west longitude.
The State of Aguascalientes is bounded on the north, east, and west by the
The State of Aguascalientes is one of the smallest states in Mexico, having an area of 5,589 square km.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes (state, Mexico), small state in central Mexico.
The state’s name, which means “hot waters” in Spanish, refers to the many natural...
Aguascalientes (city, Mexico), city, central Mexico, capital of the state of Aguascalientes.
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 Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
It became the capital of the newly formed state when it was split off from neighbouring Zacatecas in 1835.
People from Aguascalientes (both the city and the state) are known by the whimsical Spanish demonym hidrocálidos.
Aguascalientes also organises the largest fair held in Mexico, the San Marcos National Fair (Feria Nacional de San Marcos), which takes place over the last two weeks of April and the first two of May, and receives almost 7 million visitors every year.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lying on the central plateau, Zacatecas is a state of semiarid plains and mountains.
The principal industry is tourism and the cultivation and preparation of henequen—mostly exported to the United States...
It comprises the states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo, Mexico; Belize; and part of Petén, Guatemala.
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 Mexico
Graphic issue from the state of Aguascalientes, featuring a mountainline at the bottom (common feature on these newer plates), sky at the top, government logo at the bottom left and state seal at the bottom right.
Again, the state seal is used in the background, with a red band to the bottom featuring the state and country abbreviation.
The state seal is featured as a smaller graphic to the lower right, and a flag logo with the slogan "Unidos por Queretaro" is found at lower left.
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 LatinoLA - Comunidad - News & Information About Your Community
In 2000, the capital city of Aguascalientes — as the eighteenth largest city in Mexico — had a total population of 594,100 persons.
During the first decades that these registers were kept, dozens of marriages and baptisms were conducted for mestizos, negros, mulattos, and indios, who made up the majority of the population.
According to Tony Burton in his book, "Western Mexico: A Traveler’s Treasury," “The independence of Aguascalientes was sealed with a kiss, as the locals are invariably quick to point out.” As he was engaged in his campaign against the rebellious Zacatecas government, General Santa Anna met one Doña María Luisa Villa.
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 TRIO | Aguascalientes takes the initiative - Summer 2004"
Once Aguascalientes takes over the new industries, according to state officials, it will be able to release that data without federal permission, use it to build an exchange bank for firms trading their waste products for recycling, and improve local inspection and enforcement efforts.
Aguascalientes will be the first state to take on the new responsibilities, says Raúl Arriaga, the environmental undersecretary at Semarnat.
State authorities are hoping to establish a regional database by sharing their mandatory reporting system with neighboring states.
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 M E X I C O
Aguascalientes (Hot Waters) was named for its famous spas.
The capital of Aguascalientes state, one of Mexico's smallest, is 585 km northwest of Mexico City, on the Mexican Central Railway main line to Ciudad Juárez.
Aguascalientes planned a tramway in 1879 - not to connect the railroad station to the town - there was no railroad station - but to take residents to the mineral baths.
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 El Universal Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"Right now, Aguascalientes is barely on the map in terms of tourism," he told The Herald in a luncheon at the Marquis Reforma a week before his state is scheduled to host the nation's "Nuestra Belleza" beauty contest.
Aguascalientes' tourism promotion budget was set up by the state's new governor, Luis Amando Reynosa Femat, who took office last December, with the hopes of jumpstarting the industry, which currently brings in only about 1 billion pesos (US92.8 million) annually.
Aguascalientes is also courting a half-billion dollar investment from Nascar, which is planning to build its first race track and sports infrastructure outside the United States early next year on Mexican soil.
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 Cancun Mexico - Road trip from Cancun to Aquascalientes
Puebla is the capital city in the state with the same name.
As in many states, Queretaro is the state name and has a capital city with the same name.
Fortunately, the great state of Aguascalientes is just ahead and my destinaton is the city of Aguascalientes swhich means "Hot Water." Many of the houses in the city have no need for a hot water tank.
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 Guide to Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes has experienced some of the most rapid commercial and industrial development of any city in Mexico during the last decade.
Experience Aguascalientes and you'll witness the emerging face of Mexico: where an old colonial town atmosphere meets a modern, but comfortable and easy-going city undergoing rapid and positive change.
This is Aguascalientes' busiest time; an important event for the city, the state of Aguascalientes, and Mexico!
www.mexperience.com /guide/colonial/aguascalientes.htm   (1524 words)

  
 Frontiers: A gendered economic history of rural households: Calvillo, Aguascalientes, Mexico, 1982-1991
This study is set in Calvillo, a rural municipio, or county, located in the north central state of Aguascalientes.
Women's greater responsibility for the welfare of their households, particularly among women of the subsistence and landless classes, led to major changes in the economic and social stability of the household unit.
Calvillo, located in the southwest corner of the state of Aguascalientes, is perhaps best known in Mexico for the production of two very different goods: guava and embroidered handicrafts.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3687/is_200101/ai_n8942817   (1238 words)

  
 IPO Projects — Canada-Mexico Cooperative Program on Protected Natural Areas Management
The purpose of this program was to provide technical and organizational assistance to the Government of the State of Aguascalientes to strengthen its capacity to protect and preserve the region’s natural heritage.
The key environmental problems facing the Mexican State of Aguascalientes emerged from the misuse and overuse of water and the high number of cattle grazing on the land.
The Ministry of Social Development of Aguascalientes formally requested the support of CUI and CIDA in the development of a strategy for management of protected natural areas, as well as for an associated community participation process and environmental education programs.
www.canurb.com /programs/int_programs_americas_mexico.php   (746 words)

  
 VirtualTourist.com - mancera's Homepage
Nearest with Jalisco and Zacatecas, the State of Aguascalientes has a 5.589 extension of km2 with a population considered in 910 thousand habitants according to the last census.
Thanks to its strategic location, the state perfectly is communicated, through 200 km of railroad to the south with the City of Mexico and to the north with Juarez City (in border with USA).
By its size the state can be crossed in car in a day, its network of freeways extends up to 1920 km, connecting to its more important cities through two axes that cross the city of Aguascalientes, communicating the state with other regions.
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 Search Results for Aguascalientes - Encyclopædia Britannica
One of the country's smallest states (2,112 square miles [5,471 square km]), it occupies part of the central plateau between 3,300 and 10,000 feet (1,000 and 3,000 metres)...
It is bounded by the states of Nayarit and Aguascalientes and Zacatecas (north), Guanajuato (east), Michoacán and Colima (south), and by the Pacific Ocean...
It is bordered by Coahuila on the north, San Luis Potosí; on the east, Aguascalientes and Jalisco on the south, and Durango on the west.
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 Aguascalientes, Mexico - Senior Fellow Job Descriptions - English Language Fellow Program - SIT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Fellow will be placed in the State's capital by the same name, Aguascalientes, and will work with the General Coordinator of "Progress", the head of the State's English Program.
Senior English Language Fellow will assist the state level ministry of education in Aguascalientes to develop a teacher training cadre and teacher training modules.
This project, however, addresses a higher level of training and will enable the Ministry of Education in Aguascalientes to develop both a cadre of trainers and materials for sustainable language teaching and future endeavors.
www.sit.edu /elf/senior/western_hemisphere/mexico_aguascalientes.html   (161 words)

  
 NOW On / Newsfront / News / Sep 14 - 20, 2000
Both the city and the state of Aguascalientes are governed by National Action, or PAN, the party of Vicente Fox, Mexico's president-elect, who last July 2 dethroned the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
As news of the offending sign in Aguascalientes spread, indignant reps from groups across Mexico descended on the central plaza of that state capital to rally and distribute questionnaires asking locals if they approved of equating homosexuals with dogs.
Diaz estimates that because of the under-reporting of killings in the countryside, where homophobia is endemic, the toll of dead gay men and women (21 listed victims have been women) is actually closer to 500 in the past five years.
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 Aguascalientes, Mexico, Pictures
Aguascalientes, city, central Mexico, capital of the state of Aguascalientes.
Aguascalientes was founded in 1575 as a silver-mining town.
It became an important commercial center in the 19th century, when a system of railroads was developed.
www.greatestcities.com /North_America/Mexico/Aguascalientes_and_State_...   (214 words)

  
 Aguascalientes Holds Oldest Annual Fair in Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
the state of Aguascalientes and it's capital city owe their similar name to the thermal springs found in this central area of Mexico.
I was fortunate to catch a famous Aguascalientes sunset from the Virgin of Conception Church at Penuelos.
Aguascalientes fertile soils produce fine wines and brandies but vintners have scaled down to hobby farms due to high taxes on Mexican wines and foreign imports.
www.magiccarpetjournals.com /aguascalientes.htm   (740 words)

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