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To: Claude Cormier who wrote (82)	5/3/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 578

esm-resources.com - great map on esm cover page showing general layout of properties, includes Dolores. By 'area play', you mean Lluvia de Oro, right? That means 'Rain of Gold', btw. esm-resources.com - overview of district esm-resources.com - cover map in smaller scale - scroll down the page for good detail lib.nmsu.edu - quite a lot can be found from this page ... well, having said that, I just spent 15 minutes trying to find a map without luck, the PARC Interactive mapweb.parc.xerox.com has no detail at all. From near this area in Cuauht‚moc comes queso Menonito, a cheese made by Mennonites who live in much the same traditional way that they do in Alberta and Sask. Only the youngest speak much Spanish, the others a variety of Plattsdeutsch. It's very rugged country. The railway from Los Mochis to Creel is a big tourist attraction, it crosses the Continental Divide three times on the way, there are many spectacular sights, for instance in one place you can see straight down (and I mean straight down - vertical) from the train window for about a mile. Most people go to that side to look, and you can feel the car tilt, they say (I've never been yet). As near as I can figure, Ocampo (which is maybe 75 km south of Dolores) is very near (maybe 10 km west) La Cascada (waterfall) de Basaseachi, which is either the second or third highest falls in the world. People might be interested in this regarding the name 'Dolores' - The first revolutionary of M‚xico was Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who on the 16th of September of 1810 issued his first call to rebellion titled 'Grito de Dolores' (Cry of Pains). Dolores is also a common woman's name, but always has this connection too. The date is remembered in almost all mexicano towns with a street called '16 de Septiembre'. The name 'Chihuahua' means (I think) 'dry and sandy place' in the Nahuatl languages, and the whole area is very much associated with Pancho Villa, who hid out there, and kept a selection of wives in various towns. Zapata spent some time there, too, in 1911-13. A lot of gold and silver and copper has come out of the area, going back to prehistoric times, the metal was used as trade goods by local Indians. Just south of Creel is Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon), named so for good reason. Still looking for good maps ............ cheers .......... marcos