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	Chihuahua
		The city of Chihuahua is located 372 km from Juarez, 456 km from Torreon, 494 km from Monterrey, 920 km from Guadalajara, and 1,455 km from Mexico City.
		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.
		Hidalgo de Parral, the commercial door to the Sierra Madre, is a special place blessed by a people s fiercely loyal that wherever they might be, they miss what they proudly call the "Capital of the World" or the "Center of the Universe".
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/chihuahua/auchihuahua.html (1895 words)

	Tour By Mexico ® - Chihuahua State --- 4
		Chihuahua is bounded on the north by USA; to the east by the
		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)

	Sign On San Diego > Travel
		Locals say it's the gringa who lies under the monument's dome and that Villa is buried at the local cemetery in the grave of his final wife's parents (Villa is said to have had 26 wives.).
		Parral, officially called Hidalgo del Parral, is 193 miles south of Chihuahua City in Mexico's largest state.
		The Chihuahua Tourism Secretariat is promoting Parral as the center of the Ruta de Villa, a circuit that includes missions, mines and the Barranca de Sinforosa, one of the largest canyons in Mexico.
	www.signonsandiego.com /travel/040606parralmexico.html (837 words)

	Parral, Chihuahua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parral, Chihuahua is located in the southwestern part of the state, 220 km from the state capital Chihuahua, Chih.
		After the end of the silver mining boom, Parral was almost completely abandoned in the early 1930s (although the surrounding district continues to be mined for silver and base metals.) It is now a small city mainly dedicated to commerce.
		Parral is noted as the place of death of several historical figures, including Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa, who was assassinated on July 20, 1923 and initially buried there, and border ruffian "Dirty" Dave Rudabaugh, a sometime friend and foe of Billy the Kid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parral,_Chihuahua (297 words)

	Chihuahua, Mexico - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Chihuahua, city, northern Mexico, capital of Chihuahua State.
		Founded about 1704, Chihuahua in 1864 served briefly as the capital of Mexico, under President Benito Juárez.
		After the overthrow of Carranza in 1920, he came to terms with the new government and retired to a ranch near Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /chihuahua.htm (354 words)

	The Craig Daily Press: From Parral to Craig
		Parral, in Chihuahua, is the home town of many of the Mexicans who live and work in Craig.
		Nestled on the eastern slope of the Sierra Madre mountain range in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, Parral is a historic mining town that serves as a center of commerce for cattle ranches that dot the parched countryside.
		Parral is a town of 80,000 people struggling to find a new source of income at the copper, gold, zinc and silver mines that supported them for generations close.
	www.craigdailypress.com /section/immigration/story/17659 (1495 words)

	Scouting Chihuahua
		Chihuahua is big--not as big as Texas, mind you, but nonetheless the largest state in Mexico--Chihuahua is almost three times the size of Spain.
		Parral is a nice place, and I would like to go back when I have time to explore it more thoroughly.
		Parral is a large enough town that we found a 24-hour restaurant where we could have an early breakfast.
	unblinkingeye.com /Travel/ScCh/scch.html (2673 words)

	Pancho Villa, wherever he is, is feted in July celebrations \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		PARRAL, CHIHUAHUA – Adolfo Carrasco closed his eyes as if channeling the spirit of Pancho Villa, a hero to the citizens of Parral.
		The unofficial grave, several rows farther into the cemetery, is marked by a worn tombstone for Antonio Rentería, the father of Villa's last wife.
		According to Elena Hannan, a Parral resident now living in Mexico City, the tale of the gringa buried at the Revolution Monument was kept secret to save President Echeverría from embarrassment.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040606/news_1t6mexico.html (834 words)

	Microfilm Collections - Special Collections
		The city of Chihuahua was established in the 1700's as a commercial center for nearby silver mines, and today the State is Mexico's greatest producer of silver, lead, and zinc and also the leading state in the production of lumber and cellulose.
		Chihuahua's noted places and names include the Chihuahua Cathedral, Casas Grandes, Cabeza de Vaca in Chihuahua in 1536, the Chihuahuan Desert, the Chihuahuan Trail, Chihuahua as Provincias Internas, Father Hidalgo, Benito Juarez, General Pancho Villa and the beginning of the great Revolution.
		Documents generally relate to politics and government of Chihuahua; include criminal reports, Vicente Yrigoyen's will, lists of the number of prisoners in Chihuahua for the years of 1784 and 1785, documents concerning Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Muñoz, the 1785 census, documents signed by José María Ponce de León and Pedro de Valois.
	libraryweb.utep.edu /special/microfilm.cfm (1204 words)

	The State of Chihuahua, Mexico
		Its name derives from the Náhuatl language, meaning "Dry, sandy place", which is not surprising considering its extensions of desert, but in addition to the arid zones, Chihuahua includes regions of dramatic mountain scenery, lush and fertile valleys and thundering waterfalls surrounded by forests and vegetation.
		Casas Grandes area - A fertile valley in northwestern Chihuahua, the Casa Grandes area is home to the ruins of Paquimé Casas Grandes, a cultural and trade center that reached its peak during the 13th and 14th centuries.
		Pottery was one of the principal wares of trade, and today the potters of Mata Ortiz are some of the finest, using traditional methods and hand-forming and painting their pieces.
	www.surf-mexico.com /states/Chihuahua (259 words)

	TONY BURTON - CHIHUAHUA CITY AND SOUTH
		The cathedral organ was brought from Germany, while the kiosk and sculptures in the adjacent Plaza de Armas (or Plaza de la Constitución) originated in Italy.
		Shortly after leaving Chihuahua, a side road climbs 7 km up into the hills to Aquiles Serdán, a small, neat mining community with a fine eighteenth century church boasting lovely stonework, and a gilded retablo, dedicated to Santa Eulalia de Mérida.
		Parral was the base from 1910 of much of Villa's activity and this is the building outside which he was assassinated on July 20, 1923, while on a trip to town from his retirement residence in Canutillo.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/tonysarticles/tbchihuasouth.html (1700 words)

	The Biography Project: Pancho Villa
		By the time he was 20, Villa had moved northward to Chihuahua, working on and off as a miner in Parral while selling stolen cattle in Chihuahua (official government biographies list his occupation then as "wholesale meat-seller").
		In 1899 he returned to mining, this time in Santa Eulalia near Chihuahua, but he soon tired of the laborer's life and added bank robbery to cattle rustling and murder on the list of crimes for which he was wanted by the Díaz government.
		Today Villa is remembered with pride by most Mexicans for having led the most important military campaigns of the constitutionalist revolution, in which his troops were victorious as far south as Zacatecas and Mexico City, east as far as Tampico, and west as far as Casas Grandes.
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/pancho_villa.html (803 words)

	parral chihuahua Description of chihuahua. Good information source for chihuahua. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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	chihuahua.eye-search.org /parral-chihuahua.html (712 words)

	Parral Archives microfilm, 1631-1821: inventory of collection at SW Studies Center
		This collection includes the microfilm of more than 360,000 pages of handwritten documents (written in old-style Spanish) from the Municipal Archives of Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, documenting the history of a Spanish frontier colonial silver mining community in the Parral district of northern Mexico.
		In addition, there is a hard copy of the Spanish index in CD 3676.P3 1631a ARIZ. SCOPE AND CONTENTS: A reproduction of the municipal archive of Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, beginning with the earliest extant documents, in 1631 and continuing to the close of the Spanish colonial period.
		This microfilm is also available for use at the University of Arizona (its Special Collections library -- which apparently is located in a separate building from where the microfilms are kept -- has the the English translation of the index) and at the University of California at Riverside.
	swcenter.fortlewis.edu /inventory/Parral.htm (1308 words)

	Pancho Villa Summary
		The new pile of loot was used to purchase draft animals, cavalry horses, arms, ammunition, mobile hospital facilities, and food, and to rebuild the railroad south of Chihuahua City.
		He was assassinated three years later (1923) in Parral, Chihuahua, in his car.
		It may be in the city cemetery of Parral, Chihuahua [7], or in the Monument of the Revolution in Mexico City [8].
	www.bookrags.com /Pancho_Villa (4754 words)

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		The first coinage of the revolutionary forces, these extremely ugly but effective coins only circulated locally in southern Sonora and in the Territory of Tepic (Now the State of Nayarit). Coins were issued in denominations of 20 and 50 centavos, and 1 peso.
		The mines of Hidalgo del Parral produced abundant silver, but copper was in short supply. To provide the copper for the 2 centavos, General Chao ordered the electrical lines of the Parral-Santa Barbara trolley line taken down, and the copper wire converted into coining blanks.
		In September 1913, at Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, General Manuel Chao, a Carranza favorite, issued the first Chihuahua coins of the revolution. They were issued in denominations of 2 and 50 centavos and 1 peso. The legend Fuerzas Constitucionalistas (Constitutionalist Forces) appears on the 2 and 50 centavos pieces. The legend H.
	www.jdwjme.com /mexrev/index_files/Page439.htm (365 words)

	Enrique Lomas 1934-1998
		Enrique Lomas, founder and director of the CIEM (Center for Information and Studies on Migration) from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and supporter and collaborator of the Border Agricultural Workers Project in El Paso, Texas, died during Holy Week.
		On Wednesday April 7th of 1998, in the city of Chihuahua, Enrique Lomas Arrellano died having succumbed to a painful illness, at the age of sixty-three.
		He was a theologian, with a title from the Methodist church of which he was pastor for ten years in Parral, Chihuahua and in Tampico, Tamaulipas.
	www.farmworkers.org /elomasen.html (642 words)

	bonmf7
		María González, native of Parral, md. November 30, 1644, Parral, with Francisco de Lima, native of Villaviscosia in the Kingdom of Portugal, son of Francisco Gómez and Beatris de Lima.
		Regina de Vera, daughter of Captain Domingo González, deceased, and Regina de Vera, vecina of Parral, md. April 19, 1651, Parral, with Andrés de Hierro, vecino and farmer (labrador) of the Valle de San Bartolomé, Nueva Vizcaya.
		Antonia González, daughter of Domingo González, deceased, and Regina de Vera, vecina of Parral, md. September 9, 1758, Parral, with Bartolomé del Hierro, native of the Valle de San Bartolomé.
	pages.prodigy.net /bluemountain1/bonmf7.htm (5702 words)

	Tour By Mexico ® - Hidalgo del Parral in Chihuahua State, Mexico
		Tour By Mexico ® - Hidalgo del Parral in Chihuahua State, Mexico
		The short route for reaching it is the Chihuahua - Satevo - Parral Highway of 222 kms.
		At the municipal cemetery is found a quarry tombstone that covered his tomb before his remains were transferred to
	www.tourbymexico.com /chihua/parral/parral.htm (102 words)

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		In many numismatic publications, the coins of Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, and the famous Muera Huerta pesos of Cuencamé, Durango are wrongly attributed to Villa.
		The 1913 coinage of Hidalgo del Parral rightly belongs to General Manuel Chao, while the Muera Huerta peso was issued by General Calixto Contreras and his deputy, General Severino Ceniceros at Cuencamé.
		A common obverse die was designed by M. Revilla and used for the production of all Chihuahua 5 and 10 centavos pieces of 1914 and 1915.
	www.jdwjme.com /villa/index_files/Page406.htm (161 words)

	Jewelry
		Parral agate (Chihuahua, Mexico), matte quartz, matte fl onyx (China), olive cascade keshi pearls (China), sterling silver clasp.
		Imperial jasper (Chihuahua, Mexico), agua nueva agate (Chihuahua, Mexico), rare faceted pearls (China), Montana moss agate (Montana), Swarovski crystals (Austria), gold-filled clasp.
		Imperial jasper (Chihuahua, Mexico), Willow Creek jasper (Idaho), dyed pearls (China), agua nueva agate (Chihuahua, Mexico), opals (Oregon), Swarovski crystals (Austria), gold-filled clasp.
	www.floorcloth-natasha.com /jewelry.htm (375 words)

	General Stock Page 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Somehow, when I bought this one, I missed a couple of dings in the crystals, which can be seen in the photos.
		El Tajo mine, Hidalgo de Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico.
		There is a chip taken out on the top left center of the larger crystal.
	www.crystal-mine.com /genstock8salespecimens.html (1231 words)

	Pancho Villa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Villa underwent a transformation after meeting Abraham González, the political representative (and future governor of the state) in Chihuahua of Francisco Madero, who was opposing the continuing and lengthy presidency of Porfirio Diaz in Mexico.
		He was further enraged by Obregon's use of searchlights, powered by American electricity, to help repel a Villista night attack on the border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora on November 1, 1915.
		It may be in the city cemetery of Parral, Chihuahua [13], or in the Monument of the Revolution in Mexico City [14].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pancho_Villa (4714 words)

	Francisco Javier Ulloa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I was born in Parral Chihuahua during a business trip my mother took in 1952.
		Parral Chihuahua is a small town rich in historical events with revolutionary heroes which helped form Parral Chihuahua's culture.
		Moreover, I am a graduate student finishing my doctoral degree in Education in Leadership and Foundation.
	www.utep.edu /comm3459/fall97/bios/javier.htm (155 words)

	Parral Chih. « The Mex Files
		Elisa Grienssen Zambrano of Parral, Chihuahua was a 13 yr.
		The Museo is still in Chihuahua, but as far as I know, all the Revolutionary widows are deceased.
		The bullet riddled car that Pancho Villa was riding in when he was assassinated is still parked in the patio of his former home.
	mexfiles.wordpress.com /tag/provincia/chihuahua/parral-chih (4393 words)

	U.S. Consulate General - Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - American Citizen Services - List of Attorneys in the Juarez' Consular ...
		The Consular District of the American Consulate General at Ciudad Juárez comprises the entire State of Chihuahua, located directly South of the State of Texas.
		Chihuahua City, the Capital of the State of Chihuahua, is approximately 235 miles South of Ciudad Juárez.
		NOTE: When calling Chihuahua City from the United States, you must first dial 011-52-614 before the number.
	usembassy.state.gov /posts/mx2/wwwhacla.html (1120 words)

	Chihuahua, Mexico Genealogy Forum
		Lujan and Arias Chihuahua - Lupe Williams-Lujan 5/11/06
		Ancestors from Hidalgo del Parral - Felice Vigil 2/24/06
		GALINDO/MORIEL in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua circa 1845 - Virginia Montes 5/01/05
	genforum.genealogy.com /mexico/chihuahua (1213 words)

	The Yale Herald - January 23, 2004 - Bones may have Pancho Villa skull
		In 1929, the body was reburied in The Tomb of Illustrious Men in Mexico City in order to prevent further desecration.
		But many locals claim that the body taken to the capital was a decoy, and that Villa's body presently rests in Parral, Chihuahua.
		Regardless of the location of Villa's body, the effort to have his skull returned to Mexico is gaining momentum.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=2801 (929 words)

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