Talk:Guanajuato, Guanajuato

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The city of Guanajuato is the capital of the state of the same name. It is located at 21.02°N 101.28°W, 370 km (230 miles) northwest of Mexico City, at an elevation of 1'996.44 meters (6,550 ft) above sea level. The estimated population in 2003 was about 78,000 people.

Guanajuato was founded as a town in 1554 and received the designation as a city in 1741. The city is well known for its wealth of fine colonial era Spanish architecture.

In the Panteon catacombs to the west of the city is a famous burial ground noted for the natural mummies produced by the conditions there.

The city of Guanajuato was the birthplace of artist Diego Rivera.

The city it is also sit of one of the largest places where mathematic boils in a public institution called CIMAT.

Each October the city holds the Cervantino, a festival of the arts named after Miguel de Cervantes.

[edit] corpse museum

I don't know who wrote that the cemetary tax was repealed and no new mummies have been added but this is false, this october 2 corpses were added due to not paying the tax. Fixed it!

What is your source for this? As a Guanajuato resident I find this hard to believe... Toaster917 08:00, 5 May 2007 (UTC)toaster917

as a side note, sounds like a weird place

It is a weird place, but amazingly cool. One of my favorite places in the world---the town, not the Mummy Mueseum, which I found ghoulish. But, the museum is always full of tourists, and not gringos---tourists from other parts of Mexico. --VonWoland 05:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Amazing city!!! Agrippina Minor