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San Juan del Rio

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About San Juan del Rio

San Juan del Rio is a town and administrative seat of the surrounding San Juan del Rio Municipality inside the valuable Mexican kingdom of Queretaro. The population in July, 2007 is calculated in 128,270 for the town and 217,980 for the municipality. Both the city and municipality have the second one-highest populace within the kingdom. The municipality has a place of 799.Nine km2. It is on the country's central plateau, 50 km southeast of nation capital, Santiago de Queretaro, at 20°23′N 99°fifty nine′W and an elevation of 1922 m. Famous for its opals, mined at close by La Trinidad, it is also an agricultural center and has a few light enterprise.

A quantity of wineries also are located in the region. It is hooked up to Santiago de Queretaro and Mexico City through the mainline freight railway and Federal Highway fifty seven. The city became founded at the Feast of Saint John the Baptist June 24, 1531 by way of Fernado de Tapia, an Otomi chieftain that converted to Catholicism and dropped his Native name Conin. San Juan changed into one of the first Spanish settlements out of doors the Valley of Mexico and hence marked the beginning of the colonisation of Northern and Western Mexico, which includes the town of Queretaro which turned into founded one month later.

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Know Everything about the Christmas Capital of the Philippines - San Fernando

The City of San Fernando is the capital of Pampanga province and is also popularly known as the ‘Christmas Capital of the Philippines’. Every year, there is a Giant Lantern Festival that is organized over here from December 16 to 24 in which different communities participate against each other by building different types of lamps and commemorating it in a superb show of light and music. The festival is a popular attraction during the nine days of Christmas as people pour in large numbers to witness the spectacle. The initial tradition of the festival began somewhere around 1908 but the present version of it evolved during the 1930s when electricity made its way into the city. However, the motto of the festival is unity among its different neighbourhoods through different lanterns. Some other facts related to the Giant Lantern Festival and the city, in particular, are also discussed here for a general understanding. 

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