Lagos de Moreno travel guide

Lagos de Moreno is a city and its surrounding municipality of the same name located in the extreme northeastern part of the state of Jalisco in Mexico. At the 2005 census the city had a population of 92,716 inhabitants, the seventh-largest community in the state in population.
The city serves as the municipal seat of the municipality, which has an area of 2,648.22 km² (1,022.48 sq mi) and a population of 140,001 inhabitants, and includes many other outlying small communities, the largest of which are Paso de Cuarenta (San Miguel de Cuarenta) and Los Azulitos.
Lagos de Moreno is called by Mexicans, with some hyperbole, the "Athens of Jalisco" because of the numerous writers and poets who were born there.
Important industries include food processing, including milk and dairy products, vegetable oils, and meats, manufacture of footwear and agricultural machinery.
The city was founded on March-31st., 1563 by Captain General and Grand Major of the Teocaltiche Valley, Hernando de Martell a.k.a. Hernán Gallegos, and named Villa de Santa Maria de los Lagos.
Gallegos founded the village in the Spanish style in the remains of Chichimecas and Caxcans cultures with 63 Sephardie families that went from Spain after King Ferdinand proclaimed the Alhambra Decree (March 31, 1492) (History of the Jews in Spain) which ordered every Jew in Iberia to convert to the Catholic religion or be expelled from the country. Some of the Spanish Jews or Sephardies went to America and founded towns or cities in the New World. (...) more....

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