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About San Marcos
San Marcos is a town within the Mexican country of Guerrero. It serves because the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of San Marcos. The city presently has about 12, 000 inhabitants. Culturally and ethnically, the city and the municipality belong to what's regarded in Mexico as the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca. This is a 125 km long location along the Pacific coast; it starts south of Acapulco and ends close to the town of Puerto Angel within the neighboring nation of Oaxaca. Geographically, the city is placed about fifty nine km south of Acapulco.
It is located 18 km inland and along Federal Highway 2 hundred that is higher regarded domestically because the Acapulco Pinotepa Nacional toll road. It is handiest approximately one hour’s pressure from Acapulco and takes approximately 3 hours from Pinotepa National. Officially, the metropolis and municipality were established on 28 September 1885 and had been named in honor of Saint Mark, a Catholic saint considered the purchaser saint of the region. However, the town already existed, first off below the name of Xolutla and later La Estancia.
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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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