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San Luis Rio Colorado

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About San Luis Rio Colorado

San Luis Rio Colorado is a town and also the call of its surrounding municipality. In the 2015 census, the city had a population of 192,739. The town is the fourth-biggest network inside the kingdom, and the municipality is likewise the fourth-largest in terms of population. Lying inside the northwestern corner of the country of Sonora, the metropolis marks the nation border with Baja California. It also stands on the international border with america, adjacent to San Luis, Arizona. It is placed approximately seventy five km from Mexicali. The municipality covers an area of eight,412.75 km² in the Sonoran Desert. Awarded metropolis reputation in July 1958, San Luis Rio Colorado serves as the place of business for the encircling municipality of the same name.

The town is placed on a mesa, characterised by means of a flat and sandy terrain. On Easter Sunday 2010, a 7.2 value earthquake struck the place. The Sears department keep and 5 colleges were destroyed, affecting approximately 30,000 people inside the location. San Luis Rio Colorado changed into as soon as an important inland port for steamers journeying the Colorado from the Gulf of California. Since the early 1900s the Colorado has been completely or almost absolutely drained for irrigation. The once-bold Colorado is normally dry or a small circulation.

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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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