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Juarez Penitentiary, Merida Yucatan Mexico

Identifier: mexicohistoryofi00wrig
Title: Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors:  Wright, Marie Robinson, 1866-1914
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Publisher:  Philadelphia, G. Barrie & sons  [etc., etc.]
Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congress
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INDIAN HEMP CUTTER. YUCATAN 475 and the record that remains behind him is a monument to his greatness. Thepresent governor is Sefior D. Enrique Muhoz Aristegui, who is progressive andenterprising and has followed closely the example set by his predecessors. The United Railroads of Yucatan have eight hundred kilometres of variouslines which extend to all important points of this State and to Campeche. Thiscompany was formed in 1902, being a merger of several independent lines, as
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JUAREZ PENITENTIARY, MERIDA. follows: The railroad from Merida to Progreso with a branch to Izamal; fromMerida to Valladolid with a branch to Progreso; the Peninsula Railroad; therailroad from Merida to Peto with a branch to Sotuta. The construction of thefirst railroad was organized by Senor Jose Rendon Peniche. The principal points which these railroads touch are Valladolid, which isknown as the Sultana of the East, and was at one time a city of much more im-portance than to-day; Tizimin, where the three kings, Magos, annually met;Motul, the next largest city of the State, and a centre of importance on accountof the henequen industry; Izamal, another important industrial centre and famousfor the pilgrimages to the Virgin de la Asuncion; Tekas and Peto, important 476 MEXICO cities of the sugar industry;Ticul, the centre of the cornregion; Halacho, anotherpoint famous for its religiousfeasts. The only port in theState is Progreso. The WardLine steamers touch thisport and this company
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Aprovechando en caudal del rio del alacrán, en un estrecho barranco se construyó una de las ultimas haciendas mineras en Zacualpan, fue a finales del siglo XIX que se ordenó su construcción, esto quiere decir que no se trata de una estructura virreinal, pues justo su construcción corresponde a los tiempos del porfiriato, es decir se trata de una construcción minera industrial del México Independiente. Entre sus características es preciso destacar que tiene un grado de conservación bueno y que su entorno natural hace de este sitio un excelente ejemplo de la coexistencia del patrimonio cultural y el natural.
En la parte frontal de la casona se encuentra una placa que a la letra dice: “HACIENDA EL PROGRESO establecida por iniciativa del general Carlos Pacheco bajo la dirección del yngeniero de minas ANDRES ALDASORO. Se principió en septiembre de 1886. Se inauguró y comenzó a beneficiar el 23 de agosto de 1887.”
Aprovechando en caudal del rio del alacrán, en un estrecho barranco se construyó una de las ultimas haciendas mineras en Zacualpan, fue a finales del siglo XIX que se ordenó su construcción, esto quiere decir que no se trata de una estructura virreinal, pues justo su construcción corresponde a los tiempos del porfiriato, es decir se trata de una construcción minera industrial del México Independiente. Entre sus características es preciso destacar que tiene un grado de conservación bueno y que su entorno natural hace de este sitio un excelente ejemplo de la coexistencia del patrimonio cultural y el natural.
En la parte frontal de la casona se encuentra una placa que a la letra dice: “HACIENDA EL PROGRESO establecida por iniciativa del general Carlos Pacheco bajo la dirección del yngeniero de minas ANDRES ALDASORO. Se principió en septiembre de 1886. Se inauguró y comenzó a beneficiar el 23 de agosto de 1887.”
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About Progreso Industrial

Progreso Industrial works well as a base: 5 minutes from Colonia el Mirador, 30km from Chapultepec Castle.

Progreso Industrial is in México, Mexico, with about 11,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Colonia el Mirador, about 4 km away.

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Within an hour or so of Progreso Industrial: Museo Nacional del Virreinato (16 km), Pujol (28 km), Museo Nacional de Antropología (29 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (30 km).

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Progreso Industrial is in México, Mexico, about 4 km from Colonia el Mirador.

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Population
11,289
Continent
North America
Country
Mexico
Region
México
Timezone
America/Mexico_City
Coordinates
19.6364, -99.3569

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Worth the detour from Progreso Industrial

8 notable places within an hour's drive.

museum

Museo Nacional del Virreinato

A vast former Jesuit college at Tepotzotlán whose Church of San Francisco Javier holds Mexico's most overwhelming set of gilded Churrigueresque altarpieces: a wall-to-wall gold explosion, plus colonial art across the cloisters.

16 km · about 20 min drive

restaurant

Pujol

Enrique Olvera's Polanco restaurant, where the signature mole madre is a black mole reheated for thousands of days and served as a single ring beside a fresh one. Two Michelin stars; book months ahead.

28 km · about 35 min drive

museum

Museo Nacional de Antropología

The world's greatest museum of pre-Columbian art and archaeology, home to the Aztec Sun Stone and stunning Maya artifacts.

29 km · about 35 min drive

cathedral

Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.

30 km · about 35 min drive

castle

Chapultepec Castle

A hilltop royal castle built in 1785, the only royal castle in the Americas, now housing the National Museum of History.

30 km · about 35 min drive

cathedral

Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.

32 km · about 35 min drive

restaurant

Casa de los Azulejos

An 18th-century Mexico City palace sheathed on three sides in blue-and-white Puebla Talavera tile, its glass-roofed courtyard now the flagship Sanborns restaurant: breakfast under Orozco's staircase mural.

32 km · about 35 min drive

landmark

Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución)

One of the largest public plazas in the world and the historic heart of Mexico City, surrounded by the National Palace and Metropolitan Cathedral.

33 km · about 40 min drive

When to drive here

Year-round

Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.

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Loma de San José

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