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 | | Over the last several decades, these stylized suns along with other exuberant works in clay, such as the candelabra-like trees of life, guitar-strumming mermaids, and Noah's Ark depictions, have succeeded in capturing the interest of growing numbers of national and international collectors while bringing recognition and prosperity to their talented creators. |
 | | Rooted in a vast, fertile valley at eighty-eight hundred feet and edged by towering mountains, Metepec lives in the advancing shadow of Toluca, its industrial power-house of a neighbor barely four miles away. |
 | | On its northwestern boundary, where blocks of sprouted over the last several decades, the two cities have actually merged, although Metepec's compact historic center, home to many of its finest potters, still resonates to the traditional beat of its rural past. |
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