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La Piedad, Michoacán

La Piedad de Cavadas is a city and its surrounding municipality (La Piedad municipality) located in the north-west of the Mexican state of Michoacán, bordering Jalisco and Guanajuato. The original colonial name was San Sebastián. It is bordered by the town of Santa Ana Pacueco, Guanajuato. Both towns straddle the Lerma River. The city of La Piedad's population was 78,361 inhabitants in the 2005 census. The municipality has an area of 284.11 km² (109.7 sq mi) and its population was 91,132. Many people say that all the town fits inside the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

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Limits

La Piedad, "north door" of the state of Michoacán, surrounding the Lerma river, has limits at the north with the municipalities of Degollado Jalisco and Penjamo Guanajuato; at the east with the municipality of Numarán Michoacán; at the south with the municipalities of Zináparo, Churintzio and Ecuandureo Michoacán; and at the west with the municipality of Yurécuaro.

The municipality is connected through roads with cities in the Mexican states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, and of course Michoacán.

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History

Attractions

Places of interest include the town center with its beautiful kiosco (bandstand) built with quarried stone, the gateways, and the Señor de La Piedad church, which boasts perhaps the biggest dome in the country. Also of note are the Cavadas Bridge and the 30-metre-high El Salto waterfall. The local zoo and "La torre de la gaviota" located at the Sun City neighborhood, are also places you can visit in La Piedad.

There are also urban parks such as Morelos Park and La Placa park. The city is famous because of its colorful Rebozos, and the singer Jose Alfredo Jimenez made it more famous with the song "El Perro Negro" ("The Black Dog").

File:Parque morelos la piedad michoacan.jpg Inside the Morelos Park

There are hotels from 3 to 5 stars in the city.

Industry

La Piedad is a hub for agricultural products. The town was once known as the center of the Mexican pork industry, and still plays an important part in that industry. However, La Piedad has recently moved its economy towards textiles. Major manufacturers like Marval have production facilities in La Piedad. Surrounding towns are Santa Ana, Yurecuaro, Degollado, Numaran, and Ecuandureo. La Piedad is also the headquarters for veterinary pharmaceuticals company LaPisa and industrial turbine manufacturer Turbomaquinas. Also there is an important candy factory and sausage factories like Parma. La Piedad is also well known for having the best taco restaurants in the country, restaurants such as Tacos Ayala, which was established in 1964, owned by two brothers Mr. Juan Ayala Sr. and Mr. Ramon Ayala , with the headquarters located in the middle of downtown, and with more than 15 restaurants all over the city.

There are 569 companies registered in the municipality, which puts La Piedad in the top four cities in the state with the greatest number of companies, after Morelia, Uruapan, and Zamora.

The Kansas City Southern railway crosses La Piedad allowing other companies to settle around in the future.

Education

Currently there are educational institutions from kindergarten, elementary schools, high schools, secondaries and colleges, and four universities that offer varied bachelor's degrees: Instituto Tecnologico de La Piedad, Universidad de Leon at La Piedad, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, and Univer at La Piedad.

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Politics

Mayors

Notable citizens

Many famous athletes and celebrities were born or lived in La Piedad, among these Ramon Morales, midfielder for Chivas de Guadalajara football team as well as his brother Carlos Morales, midfielder for Toluca. The frontman for Regional Mexican group "Los Razos de Sacramento y Reynaldo" Sacramento Ramirez is also from La Piedad.

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Politics

Sports

Religion

Sports

In the city there are basketball and soccer (male and female) leagues, there are wrestling exhibitions, and the city has been finish of the Ruta Mexico (cycling). There are two public sport centers, clubs with tennis courts, a Lienzo Charro, and the Juan N. Lopez stadium. Outside the city are the Alianza, Mercantil and Azteca clubs, where there are soccer fields and swimming pools.

La Piedad was also the hometown for Los Reboceros de La Piedad, a soccer team in Mexico's Primera División A league, which later moved to the first division.

Science

Insituto Tecnologico de La Piedad has recently gotten several prizes in Computer Science in the National Creativity Contest. in the first tournament they were almost at the bottom of the lead. then at the second tournament they endes as 1st. place of the league.

Traffic

La Piedad suffers from big traffic issues, due to the location of this city. La Piedad is located close to the border of three states, Michoacan, Guanajuato and Jalisco. Thus the traffic problem arises. There are three highways entering this city; Mexico highways 110, 39, and 90. Highway 110 goes west and takes you to towns like Yurécuaro, Tanhuato, Vista Hermosa, Briseñas y La Barca, and the free route to Guadalajara. Highway 39 takes you south of La Piedad to Zamora, this highway takes you to the toll highway 15, which goes north-south, from Nogales to Mexico City. Highway 90 takes you north of La Piedad to the state of Guanajuato.

The federal government has plans in progress to build a peripheral road in order to reduce the traffic.

Sister cities

La Piedad has one sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:[2]

References

  1. ^ "Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI)". December 14, 2006. http://www.inegi.gob.mx/inegi/default.aspx?c=&e=16.
  2. ^ "Online Directory: California, USA". Sister Cities International. http://www.sister-cities.org/icrc/directory/usa/CA.

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