Chihuhua an Industrial and Historic City in the North of Mexico

The City of Chihuahua is the Capital City of one of Mexico’s largest States, which bears the same name. Chihuahua is an Industrial City including automobile assembly plants and other export industries; but many people still live from Agricultural activities performed all over the State. Chihuahua has important well managed intensive Live Stock raising, poultry, turkeys and also harvests Corn, Wheat, Cotton and tempered climate fruits. Although Chihuahua has the biggest deserts in the Country, as you go southwest and west, you have pine tree covered Mountains, as well as the extended and impressive Copper Canyon Region.


Many People from New Mexico , Texas and Arizona visit Chihuahua for its important attractions, but also as a route by train through the Copper Canyon in search of the Beaches on the Sea of Cortes and the Pacific Ocean, such as Los Mochis, Topolobampo and Mazatlan. The Chihuahua-Pacific Railroad is one of the most impressive engineering accomplishments in Mexico, completed in 1961, with a total length of 941 Kilometers and has 410 bridges and 99 tunnels. The tracks maximum height is 2450 meters above Sea Level and all the way descents to the coast in an extraordinary, mostly touristy journey. The most attractive places where the train stops are Creel, Divisadero, San Rafael, Cuiteco, Bahuichivo (Cerocahui), Temoris (Chinipas) and El Fuerte (Sinaloa).


The City of Chihuahua had a significant role in History with some important colonial testimonials as well as some Pre-Hispanic constructions that show how the aborigines developed methods of water containment and distribution in an area where liquid was scarce. But very specially, Chihuahua played a very important role during the Mexican Revolution, an internal popular confrontation that lasted from 1910 to 1927. The warfare was all over the Country, but one of the most powerful leaders surged in Chihuahua and his name was Pancho Villa who controlled the North of the Country and part of the Central States. Since he was born and died in the State of Chihuahua, the City is full of Testimonials on his life and the Mexican Revolution.