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Chihuahua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chihuahua stands on the U.S.-Mexico border, bounded on the north by the U.S. states of Texas and New Mexico and, to the east of Ciudad Juárez, by the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande). The states of Sonora and Sinaloa border it on the west, Durango on the south, and Coahuila on the east. Chihuahua's population is predominantly Mestizo and Creole, but includes such minority groups as the indigenous Tarahumara in the mountainous areas, as well as large rural communities of Mennonites of German origin and Anglo-American Mormon settlers (primarily in Colonia Juarez). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chihuahua_(state)   (381 words)

AllRefer.com - Chihuahua, state, Mexico, Mexico (Mexican Political Geography) - Encyclopedia Largest of the Mexican states, Chihuahua is divided into two regions : the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental to the west, and the vast, cactus-and-greasewood desert basins, broken by scattered barren ranges, to the north and east. Of considerable importance to Chihuahua's economic and political development was the westward expansion of the United States; during the 19th and early 20th cent. Chihuahua was occupied by American forces in the Mexican War and played a prominent part in the turbulent years following the revolution in 1910. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Chihuah-st.html   (506 words)

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Chihuahua state election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Mexican state of Chihuahua held an election on Sunday, 4 July 2004. At stake was the office of the Chihuahua State Governor, all 33 members of the unicameral Chihuahua State Congress, and 67 mayors and municipal councils. In a give-and-take action between the state's two largest cities, borderland industrial and commercial powerhouse Ciudad Juárez fell to the PRI after 12 years of PAN rule. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chihuahua_state_election,_2004   (250 words)

Chihuahua It is bordered to the north and northeast by the United States, to the west and south by the state of Sonora, and to the southeast by the state of Sinaloa. Ciudad Juarez is on the banks of Rio Grande in the north of the state of Chihuahua, on the border with the United States of America. The state capital, Chihuahua, Lady of the Desert, was founded by Don Antonio Deza y Ulloa at the confluence of the Chuviscar and Sacramento rivers in the name of God and the King of Spain in 1709. www.mexconnect.com /mex_/chihuahua/auchihuahua.html   (1895 words)

History of Mexico - The State of Chihuahua Chihuahua - with a total of 245,945 square kilometers within its boundaries - is the largest state of the Mexican Republic and occupies 12.6% of the national territory. As Chihuahua became a center of the silver trade, the tremendous pressures on the indigenous inhabitants inflamed and provoke a flurry of revolts. From 1644 to 1652, the Tobosos, Salineros and Conchos revolted in northern Durango and southern Chihuahua. www.houstonculture.org /mexico/chihuahua.html   (2735 words)

Tour By Mexico ® - Chihuahua State --- 4 hihuahua State is located on the central north part of Mexico, between the 26º 36' 38'' and 31º 47' of north latitude parallel and 103º 11' 08'' and 109º 07' west longitude of the Greenwich meridian. The Chihuahua name come from the tarahumara "Chihuahua", that means "Place where sack are made", even though some linguist assure that it means "Dry and sandy place". Due to its topographic shape, Chihuahua has different climates: on the north is mild, on the east is dry and desert-like, and on the south semiwarm. www.tourbymexico.com /chihua/chihua.htm   (209 words)

Chihuahua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) In fact, Chihuahua state has more forest than any other Mexican state. Chihuahua is bounded on the north mostly by the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande) and Texas, and to some extent by the state line of New Mexico. The largest city is not the capital, Chihuahua, with a half-million inhabitants, but Ciudad Juárez, with 800,000 residents, and perhaps the same number in the unincorporated colonias surrounding Ciudad Juárez. www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Chihuahua_(state)   (405 words)

Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The state is named after its capital city, Chihuahua (city)Chihuahua. The states of Sonora and Sinaloa border it on the west, Durango (state)Durango on the south, and Coahuila on the east. Chihuahua is known for its production of Apple (fruit)apples, Nut (fruit)nuts, timber, cattle and dairy products, sheep, and nonferrous metals. www.echostatic.com /Chihuahua_(state)|Chihuahua.html   (320 words)

Mexico: Intolerable Killings: 10 years of abductions and murder of women in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua - Amnesty ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) In all cases, the crucial factor obliging the State to intervene as soon as a woman is reported missing is the fact that a pattern of violence against women and girls exists in Chihuahua state. The authorities have stated that when a woman is reported missing, even though an offence as such is not deemed to have been committed, she is sought by the Public Ministry using the same techniques as those used when investigating a crime. Despite the conditions in which the body was found and the state of her clothing, the state prosecutor asserted that the young woman had not been sexually assaulted, that she had worked in a bar and died from an overdose.(53) The investigation did not therefore fall within the jurisdiction of the FEIHM. web.amnesty.org /library/index/engamr410262003   (17606 words)

Cost of Chihuahua State Planes Criticized   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Chihuahua State Government has been critized for its airplane fleet which cost taxpayers of Chihuahua $3.3 million pesos to maintain and operate in 1995, according to a report in Diario de Juarez. The Turbo Commander was obtained by the state after it was confiscated by the PGR (Procuraduría General de la Republica), and given to then-Governor Fernando Baeza. Legislators in Chihuahua's State Legislature have criticized the expenses in light of the state's budget problems. www.nmsu.edu /~frontera/old_1997/mar97/397plane.htm   (281 words)

The State of Chihuahua Suffers State wide, resevoirs are at only 20 percent of capacity as of May 26, 1996. The water capacity of the state's dams stood at 97 percent in 1991. The Chihuahua state office of the federal Agriculture and Forest Sector (SAGAR) also estimates that the state has only 57,000 hectares of land suitable for planting beans and 85,000 hectares suitable for planting oats due to the drought conditions. www.nmsu.edu /~frontera/old_1996/jul96/sufr.html   (853 words)

Chihuahua --  Encyclopædia Britannica The state is bounded on the north and northeast by the United States (New Mexico and Texas), on the east by Coahuila, on the south by Durango, and on the west by the states of Sinaloa and Sonora. Chihuahua is Mexico's largest state (94,571 square miles [244,938 square km]) and is for the most part an elevated plain that slopes gently toward the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte). The Chihuahua is thought to have been derived from the Techichi, a small, mute dog kept by the Toltec people of Mexico as long ago as the 9th century AD. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9024042?tocId=9024042   (787 words)

Guide to Chihuahua Chihuahua's atmosphere is truly Mexican and deeply patriotic, which adds remarkably to the sense of history present here. Chihuahua's colonial centre is filled with handsome colonial buildings, mansions and palaces - most are open to the public - and also has some fine museums, including the ex-houses of two of Mexico's most famous leaders. Chihuahua is also the western terminus for the famous and breath-taking Copper Canyon train ride. www.mexperience.com /guide/colonial/chihuahua.htm   (1545 words)

CNN - PRI reclaims Chihuahua state in Mexico elections - July 6, 1998 CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexico's ruling party reclaimed the governor's office in this northern border state in Sunday's elections, the first time it has recaptured a state since its domination of Mexican politics began to erode 10 years ago. But Chihuahua state election officials said that with 75 percent of the vote counted, Martinez led PAN's Ramon Galindo by 341,247 votes to 276,048 -- 51 percent to 42 percent. The PRI was devastated in Chihuahua when Francisco Barrio of PAN was elected governor in 1992 -- a victory fed by widespread belief that fraud had robbed him of the post six years earlier. www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9807/06/mexico.elex   (905 words)

Chihuahua, state, Mexico Largest of the Mexican states, Chihuahua is divided into two regions—the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental to the west, and the vast, cactus-and-greasewood desert basins, broken by scattered barren ranges, to the north and east. In extreme E Chihuahua and W Coahuila is a desolate basin, the Bolsón de Mapimí. Chihuahua, breed of dog - Chihuahua, a breed of small toy dog probably of Asian origin and introduced into Mexico by Spanish... www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0811835.html   (624 words)

Chihuahuas Chihuahuas are the descendants of a small dog whose carvings have been found in the regions of Mexico. The carvings in the Monastery of Huejotzingo are reported to depict small dogs that were known to the Toltecs civilization. A chihuahua picture toy store will have many pictures of the puppies playing with their favorite toys. chihuahua-dogs.com /.../breeders-chihuahua-in-state-washington.html   (274 words)

www.CopperCanyon-Mexico.com - Welcome to the Copper Canyon! - Chihuahua State Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) On a map the trek looks like a simple train trip between the Chihuahua, capital city of the state by the same name and the small city of Los Mochis in Sinaloa near the Sea of Cortez. The Chihuahua al Pacifico Railroad carries riders from sea level to over 2,400 meters (8,000 feet) when traveling west from the agricultural city of Los Mochis, through coastal plains, up and over the Sierra Madre mountain range before descending to the city of Chihuahua 655 kms (393 miles) away. Semi-arid coastal plains to the west support large sugar cane and rich vegetable farms, while valleys to the eastern (Chihuahua) region are home to peach and apple orchards and vast grasslands. www.coppercanyon-mexico.com   (721 words)

map of chihuahua mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) On a map the trek looks like a simple train trip between the Chihuahua, capital city of the state by the same name and the small city of Los... CHIHUAHUA [Map] Chihuahua State is located on the central north part of Mexico, between the 26º 36' 38'' and 31º 47' of north latitude... chihuahua map, chihuahua maps, chihuahua, chihuahua mexico, map of mexico state, mapa de estado, estado de chihuahua, chihuahua state map, where... www.amazingpugguide.com /18/map-of-chihuahua-mexico.html   (214 words)

Drug History In the 1930s most states required antidrug education in the schools, but fears that knowledge would lead to experimentation caused it to be abandoned in most places. The House of Delegates of the Association passes a resolution stating: "Resolved, The American Medical Association opposes the use of alcohol as a beverage; and be it further Resolved, That the use of alcohol as a therapeutic agent should be discourages." By 1928, physicians make an estimated $40,000,000 annually by writing prescriptions for whiskey." [Ibid. The seizures, made on five farms in an isolated section of Chihuahua state, suggest a 70 percent increase in estimates that total U.S. consumption was 13,000 to 14,000 tons in 1982. www.drug-rehabs.org /drughistory.php   (7605 words)

www.CopperCanyon-Mexico.com - Chihuahua - Chihuahua State Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) It is worthy of at least a few days of exploring, and makes an excellent base for sightseeing around Chihuahua state. A couple blocks away is Casa de Benito Juarez, as he held Chihuahua as his capital in the fight against the French invasion in the 1860's. Chihuahua is a first class city and has all the facilities needed for the Copper Canyon adventurer including an international airport, large and modern bus station, first class hotels and restaurants, and supplies for your visit to the Copper Canyon. www.coppercanyon-mexico.com /cc-mex/ccchih.htm   (274 words)

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Encyclopedia article on Chihuahua (state) [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) This article is about the state in Mexico; for the city of Chihuahua, see: Chihuahua. Chihuahua's population is predominantly Mestizo and Creole, but includes such minority groups as the indigenous Tarahumara in the mountainous areas, as well as large rural communities of Mennonites of German origin and Anglo-American Mormon settlers. da:Chihuahua (stat) de:Chihuahua (Bundesstaat) es:Chihuahua fr:État de Chihuahua it:Chihuahua ja:チワワ州 nl:Chihuahua (staat) encyclozine.com /Chihuahua_(state)   (401 words)

Eight journalists face prison in Chihuahua state : imprimer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Reporters Without Borders expressed concern today that a judge might grant a state prosecutor’s request to arrest eight journalists in the northern state of Chihuahua involved in reporting that a powerful local businessman was corrupt. They are being sued for libel by former Ciudad Juárez mayor Manuel Quevedo Reyes, who is now head of a real estate firm. He filed a complaint in January after a series of articles in the paper said the state government paid an very inflated price for land he sold it. www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=4125   (327 words)

wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Encyclopedia : 2 : 20 : 200 : 2004 Chihuahua state election Seven people were arrested by municipal police in the city of Chihuahua: four for consuming intoxicating beverages in public, and three for raucous alcohol-induced behaviour in their homes. The state of Chihuahua, like many other parts of Mexico, strictly controls the sale and consumption of alcohol on election days. www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=2004_Chihuahua_state_election   (294 words)

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