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Las Pozas

Las Pozas was created by Edward James, more than 2,000 feet above sea level, in a subtropical rainforest in the mountains of Mexico. It includes more than 80 acres of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering Surrealist sculptures in concrete. Las Pozas is near the village of Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, a seven-hour drive north of Mexico City. In the early 1940s, James went to Los Angeles, California, and then decided that he "wanted a Garden of Eden set up . . . and I saw that Mexico was far more romantic" and had "far more room than there is in crowded Southern California". In Hollywood in 1941, his lifetime friend and cousin, Magic Realist painter Bridget Bate Tichenor, encouraged him to search for a surreal location in Mexico to express his diverse esoteric interests. In Cuernavaca, he hired Plutarco Gastelum as a guide. They discovered Xilitla in November 1945. Eventually Plutarco married a local woman and had four children. James was "Uncle Edward" to the children and frequently stayed with them in a house Plutarco had built, a mock-Gothic cement castle, now a hotel – La Posada El Castillo. Between 1949 and 1984, James built scores of surreal concrete structures with names like The House on Three Floors Which Will in Fact Have Five or Four or Six, The House with a Roof like a Whale, and The Staircase to Heaven. There were also plantings and beds full of tropical plants, including orchids — there were, apparently, 29,000 at Las Pozas at one time — and a variety of small casas, niches, and pens that held exotic birds and wild animals from the world over—James owned many exotic animals and once took his pet boa constrictors to the Hotel Francis in Mexico City. Massive sculptures up to four stories tall punctuate the site. The many trails throughout the garden site are composed of steps, ramps, bridges and narrow, winding walkways that traverse the valley walls. Construction of Las Pozas cost more than $5 million. To pay for it, James sold his collection of Surrealist art at auction. In the summer of 2007, the Fundación Pedro y Elena Hernández, the company Cemex, and the government of San Luis Potosí paid about $2.2 million for Las Pozas and created Fondo Xilitla, a foundation that will oversee the preservation and restoration of the site.

San Luis Potosí

San Luis Potosí, commonly called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital of, and most populous city in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. The city lies at an elevation of 1,850 metres . It has an estimated population of 735,886 inhabitants in the city proper, and a population of approximately 1,021,688 in its metropolitan area which is formed with the neighbour city of Soledad and some other small townships inside the urban area. This makes the metropolitan area of Greater San Luis Potosí the eleventh largest in Mexico. The city of San Luis Potosí is located in the west-central part of the state of San Luis Potosí, at 22.16°N, 100.98°W. The municipality has an area of 1,443.14 square kilometres . It is part of the macroregion of Bajío. The city is named after Louis IX of France, who is the citys patron saint. Potosí was added in reference to the fabulously rich mines of Potosí, Bolivia, discovered some forty years before the city was founded, as the exploitation of silver and gold mines in Cerro de San Pedro near San Luis was the main reason for the founding of the city in 1592. Nowadays the city is one of the main industrial centres in central Mexico with a prolific manufacturing industry. A number of foreign industries have chosen to invest in San Luis Potosí in the last decades thanks to its strategic location for trade, as the city is located halfway between Mexico City and the United States border, as well as in the middle of the triangle formed by Mexico City and the other two largest cities in Mexico, Guadalajara and Monterrey. Besides its industry-based economy, recently the city has been promoted as a touristic destination in central Mexico by state and federal programs. San Luis Potosís historic downtown displays a great mixture of different artistic styles in many buildings and its a major example of colonial architecture in Mexico. In 2010 the historic center of the city was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site within Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.

San Ciro de Acosta

San Ciro de Acosta is a town and municipality in San Luis Potosí in central MexicoLa tradición dice que los vecinos fundadores de la colonia militar asentada en la hoy cabecera municipal eligieron como Patrono a San Ciro porque el jefe de la colonia era el general José Ciro, la Villa se provee de agua de 3 albercas por lo que al lugar se le conocía como San Ciro de las Albercas. A fines del año 1910 la plaza de San Ciro fue ocupada por el cabecilla Pedro Montoya, que con esta acción se dió a conocer como rebelde al gobierno porfirista, por esta situación el municipio cambia de nombre al de Villa Pedro Montoya. En otro hecho de armas el revolucionario Miguel Acosta libera a los presos por lo que actualmente el municipio ahora se llama San Ciro de Acosta en honor del revolucionario. RESEÑA HISTÓRICA En la época de la expansión de la cultura Huasteca los indígenas fueron los constructores de numerosos cúes en esta región, muchos de estos montículos han sido destruidos en épocas relativamente recientes, pero todavía subsisten muchos que no han sido explorados. Al extinguirse los huastecos en esa zona, el terreno que ocupa el actual municipio de San Ciro de Acosta estuvo antiguamente poblado por algunas tribus bárbaras y errantes entre los que se nombraban como guachichiles, borrados, rayados, pames, y otras también nómadas pero puede decirse todavía que los pames todavía subsisten en muy pequeños grupos, en diversas localidades. Ya en la época colonial el territorio de este municipio eran terrenos de la hacienda de Amoladeras que perteneció a la jurisdicción de Rioverde, y en esta hacienda fue donde a mediados del siglo XIX el sitio de la fundación de la Villa de San Ciro de Albercas nombre primitivo de la actual cabecera municipal. La fundación de la Villa de San Ciro tuvo su origen con motivo de la Revolución de Eleuterio Quiróz que había desertado del ejército con algunos mas y con ellos se levantó en armas en 1848 contra el Gobernador del Estado don Julián de los Reyes. Era esa una revolución local, sin programa ninguno, poco después de la invasión norteamericana, alentada por la debilidad militar que padecía la República en esa época. Naturalmente que el Gobierno del Estado trató de someter a los levantiscos para restablecer el orden y la paz pública y hubo algunas escaramuzas. Los rebeldes al gobierno estatal obtuvieron algunas victorias en la hacienda de El Jabalí y en Rioverde. Ya en esta población donde el cabecilla Eleuterio Quiróz lanzo el 13 de marzo de 1849 su plan político donde proponía reformas agrarias, entre ellas el respeto de tierras de las haciendas que no sembraban los propietarios de ellas, en dicho plan se decía que de ninguna manera pagarían los arrendatarios por piso de casa, pastura de animales, leña, maguey, tuna, lechuguilla y demás frutos del campo. Se creaba el ejército regenerador que estaría a las ordenes de don Eleuterio Quiróz, que obtendría el grado de Coronel de la milicia nacional y percibía una pensión de cien pesos mensuales por toda una vida, señalándose las pensiones que disfrutarían los jefes subordinados. Este plan tan ambicioso como ilusorio logro seducir a gran cantidad de gente inculta que en él vio la opportunidad de obtener algunos beneficios y naturalmente las proposiciones que hacía Quiróz le atrajeron una multitud de adeptos y cundió rápidamente en algunos poblados de la región inmediata a Rioverde, en los estados de Querétaro, San Luis Potosíy Guanajuato. Después se supo que este plan había sido redactado por don Manuel Verástegui, vecino de Rioverde y enemigo político del Gobernador don Julián de los Reyes. El gobierno del presidente don José Joaquín Herrera despacho inmediatamente fuerzas del ejército para combatir a los rebeldes, nombrando al general Anastasio Bustamante como jefe, y como segundo al general José López Uraga, los que tenían a su mando las fuerzas de la federación y además los que proporcionaron los estados de Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí y Querétaro. La campaña se abrió, hicieron una terrible persecución de los sublevados y fueron capturados Eleuterio Quiróz y su segundo Juan Ramírez junto con otros cabecillas; y en octubre de 1849 quedó pacificada la Sierra. Pero considerando el general Mariano Arista, entonces Secretario de Guerra y Marina, que era necesario asegurar definitivamente la tranquilidad pública de la Sierra Gorda, así como proporcionar todo apoyo económico a las familias que habían quedado arruinadas por los desmanes de los sublevados, propuso la creación de tres colonias militares que debían establecerse en las sierras de San Luis Potosí, Querétaro y en México. El Congreso General emitió el decreto correspondiente que contenía además un reglamento al que se sujetarían esas colonias militares de la sierra Gorda fueron establecidas en Rosa Uraga del Departamento de México, Purísima de Arista en el estado de Querétaro y la de san Ciro de Albercas en el estado de San Luis Potosí. Esta última fue el origen de la población de San Ciro, después cabecera del municipio de su nombre que se encontraba en terrenos de la hacienda de Amoladeras y en enero de 1851 se le habían concedido cuatro sitios de ganado mayor y trece caballerías de tierra, y al dejar de ser colonia militar se le llamó solamente como "Hacienda de San Ciro de Albercas". El reparto de terrenos y solares había sido ejecutado por el general José López Uraga y como sub inspector el coronel Antonio Tenorio quien se estableció en ese lugar con su familia, mientras tanto se trazó la plaza de armas, las calles y el reparto de solares y terrenos a los agraciados. Calle de la Cabecera Municipal Dos años transcurrieron, según la Ley de Colonias, contados desde que dejo de serlo y cumplido este plazo el 16 de febrero de 1853, por decreto No. 10 del 16 de febrero de 1853 siendo Gobernador Interino del Estado Lic. Ramón Adame, la Colonia de Albercas se declaró Villa bajo la denominación de "Villa de San Ciro". Para dar principio a esta nueva categoría política, se presentó en esta población el señor Fernando santa maría, con carácter de prefecto del Distrito de Rioverde, para recibir la población que le fue entregada por el capitán primero don Ignacio Ruiz, se nombraron desde luego las autoridades del ayuntamiento y se ordenó que por bando público se hiciera saber a los habitantes la nueva denominación del lugar, levantándose las actas correspondientes, una de ellas se depositó en el archivo de la reciente Villa. El primer Presidente del nuevo ayuntamiento lo fue el señor Epifanio Villegas, actuando con Secretario interino que lo fue el señor Ignacio Rivera. La Villa se provee de agua de tres albercas que se encuentran hacia el oeste de la población, las cuáles recogen el líquido durante la estación de lluvias, por eso se llamó esta población San Ciro de Albercas. Los vecinos del lugar tienen la opinión de que si se construyera una buena presa en el Arroyo de Codornices quedaría prácticamente asegurada la fertilidad de esa tierra que aún se dice superaría las de Rioverde. El Gobernador de Estado ingeniero José M. Espinosa y Cuevas, al rendir su informe el 15 de septiembre de 1905 manifestó que algunos municipios auxiliados por el gobierno han establecido servicio telefónico y mencionó varias poblaciones entre ellas la de San Ciro.

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