Mexico

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Mexico
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Teotihuacan

• located about 31 miles north east of Mexico City
• 500 BC- 650 AD
• Population 200,000

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Pyramid of the Sun

• Built in the 1st century AD
• Volume of 2.5 million tons of stone and earth
  used in its construction
• 200 feet high and 700 feet high wide

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Pyramid of the Moon

• Second largest structure in the city
• rises to 140 feet and measures 426 by 511 feet at
  its base

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Guadalajara, Jalisco
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Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato

• 16 de septiembre, Miguel Hidalgo had the grito to
  declare the war for independence
• Viva Mexico, Viva

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Strangest Ice Cream
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San Miguel de Allende, GTO

• Many people from the U.S. retire and move to this
  city
• Part of the independence route of Miguel Hidaldo

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Guanajuato, GTO
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Alhondiga de Granaditas

• Used as a prison and a fort
• Door was burned down by El Pipila during the
  war of independence

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The Mummies

• Dug up between 1865 and 1958
• Law required relatives to pay grave taxes
• Accidently mummified

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Michoacan