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On November 24, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo, the priest of Dolores, came to the Hacienda Atequiza owned by Ignacio Basauri. Brought an army of seven thousand men who slept that night at the ranch. Why choose to stay in Hidalgo Atequiza? theory is a reasonable supply of food, as were thousands of mouths, and had enormous Atequiza Trojan, various cereals. From 1812 to 1816 ran a heroic uprising of José Encarnación Rosas and Mezcal people against the Spanish government, the rebels were besieged in the coastal island in the Presidio, but an opportunity mock guards and looted the Treasury to bring food to Atequiza soldiers.

Born in Hacienda Atequiza de Octaviano de San Juan de la Mora Riesch the June 24, 1841, who became an innovative photographer, famous portrait which won prizes in France. He took many portraits of Porfirio Díaz, General Ramón Corona, Mariano Bárcena, and all the wealthy families of Jalisco, including Haro and Hijar Gortazar the Cañedo, the Rincón Gallardo and his nephews the Cuesta Gallardo (he was a cousin Josefa Gallardo Riesch ), also artists such as Angela Peralta. Portrayed Ignacio Luis Vallarta, Francisco Tolentino and hundreds of people for over 40 years, also ran photos of foreign Guadalajara consideration as anonymous. The press of the time always mentioned as an excellent photographer, the best or the best portraitist of the era. He died in Mexico City on May 15, 1921.

On May 14, 1888 opened the railway-Irapuato Mexico-Guadalajara, for a stretch of its construction were purchased from Atequiza a million sleepers mezquiteras of the finances, in that first trip, the journalist Manuel Caballero says the picturesque landscape that provides the wealth of Atequiza, whose fertile lands and magnificent estate called the attention of observers. " Atequiza was opened to trade (alcohol, flour, grains, fruit, gray quarry) in the farm also had a rail network to transport all kinds of goods. Step was the product of much of the Chapala Riviera andalusia rest of the country and tourists went to Chapala, and came from Guadalajara or Mexico. There was a tram from armadillos and inquiries that came to Chapala Hotel andalusia Arzapalo, the English lady E. Alec Tweedie diligence ironically compares with the Mayor of London, but says "it was adorned with gold and scarlet" wide as a car moving, I remember the feat of addressing a bus from New York's Fifth Avenue.

In November 1896, Lorenzo and Manuel Cuesta Gallardo "El Chato" Elizaga invited French Veyre Gabriel and his partner, Claude Fernand Bon Bernard, a Atequiza; here recorded eight common view movie scenes at the ranch as lazamiento horses, "jaripeo" fight cock, dance, bathing in the canal horses and oxen peones municipalities. The "view", along with others from Mexico City, were distributed throughout Europe and elsewhere by the Company Lumière. Mexico Atequiza represented the peasant, rural, traditionalist in the eyes of the world where the film came in the early years to invent.

The photographer Charles B. Waite, Atequiza visited at least twice, in 1905 photograph Atequiza five sites: the temple, arches (missing) from the big house where you and Joaquín Manuel Cuesta Gallardo, the main courtyard where there are three statues porfirianas, the manufactures of alcohol, and a panoramic view of the farm. In 1908 he made four of Florida's famous orange and juicy fruits that so cheered in the region. All these photos were sold in Mexico and elsewhere as postcards. Waite captured thousands of photos in our country and other parts of world.

Title: "Atequiza, where water is cut".
Mexico history
history of the mexican state of Jalisco
Part 16 of 26.

Titulo: Atequiza, Lugar donde se corta el agua
historia de mexico
historia del estado mexicano de jalisco
parte 16 de 26