Glorieta La Normal | |
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| Location | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
  Glorieta La Normal | |
| Coordinates: 20°41′43″N103°20′55″W / 20.6952°N 103.3485°W | |
Glorieta La Normal (or Glorieta de La Normal) is a roundabout in Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. [1] [2] [3] The area is serviced by the La Normal railway station.
Guadalajara is a city in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 8th most populous city in Mexico, while the Guadalajara metropolitan area has a population of 5,268,642 people, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in the country and the twenty-second largest metropolitan area in the Americas. Guadalajara has the second-highest population density in Mexico, with over 10,361 people per square kilometer. Within Mexico, Guadalajara is a center of business, arts and culture, technology and tourism; as well as the economic center of the Bajío region. It usually ranks among the 100 most productive and globally competitive cities in the world. It is home to numerous landmarks, including Guadalajara Cathedral, the Teatro Degollado, the Templo Expiatorio, the UNESCO World Heritage site Hospicio Cabañas, and the San Juan de Dios Market—the largest indoor market in Latin America.
El Salto is a city, and the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the central region of the Mexican state of Jalisco.
The Guadalajara Mi Macro is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The initiation of work on the system was announced by Jalisco Governor Emilio González Márquez on February 29, 2008. The system was launched on March 11, 2009 by him and Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
The Guadalajara Pride is an event that celebrates diversity in general and seeks equal rights for LGBT people, is celebrated in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Enrique Alfaro Ramírez is a Mexican politician and the Governor of Jalisco. In 2009, he served as mayor of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga. He mounted his gubernatorial campaign in 2012 under the Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) party but lost to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Alfaro Ramírez decided to run for mayor of Guadalajara that year and won the elections. After serving for three years, he ran for governor again under the MC and was victorious. This victory marked the MC's first gubernatorial win in its history. Within a week of the election results, however, he resigned from the MC and decided to be an independent governor, claiming he was never an active member of the MC.
Martín Arzola Ortega, commonly referred to by his alias "El 53", was a Mexican convicted drug lord and former high-ranking leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco. He worked under Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the alleged top leader of the CJNG. Arzola Ortega began his criminal career in 1998 as a cargo truck thief and eventually joined the Milenio Cartel, the predecessor group of the CJNG. After several of his bosses were arrested and/or killed, he founded the CJNG with other defectors in the 2010s.
The Mariachis de Guadalajara were a professional baseball team in the Mexican League based in Zapopan, Jalisco, in the Guadalajara metropolitan area. Their home ballpark was the Estadio Panamericano, with a capacity of 16,500 people. The Mariachis were established in December 2020 and started playing in the 2021 season.
An equestrian statue of José María Morelos, officially named Monumento a Morelos, is installed in Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. It was designed by Miguel Miramontes and it was unveiled in September 1965. It is installed along Parque Morelos, previously named Paseo de la Alameda. The bronze statue is placed in front of a quarry obelisk. Above the main statue, there is a bronze eagle that represents one of the former coats of arms of the country.
A statue of Christopher Columbus is installed along Columbus Roundabout, in Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
The Arcos del Milenio, officially the Arcos del Tercer Milenio, is a sculpture by Sebastián, installed in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. It is located along Avenues Mariano Otero and Lázaro Cárdenas. It is 52 meters (171 ft) high, weights around 1,500 metric tons and it covers 1,700 square meters (18,000 sq ft).
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A statue of Francisco I. Madero is installed in Guadalajara's Parque Revolución, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. The statue was vandalized during the 2020 International Women's Day march.
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La Normal is the tenth station of Line 3 of the Guadalajara Urban Electric Train System from south-east to north-west and the eighth in opposite direction. It's one the underground stations of said line, as well as the northernmost station from the underground tunnel before exiting to the surface towards the elevated viaduct Guadalajara-Zapopan.
Line 3 of the Guadalajara Urban Electric Train System is the third public transport railway line in the Guadalajara metropolitan area (México) and currently its longest. The line connects the Historical Centres of Zapopan, Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque, through the Diagonal Metropolitan Vial Corridor; consisting of Juan Gil Preciado, Juan Pablo II, Manuel Ávila Camacho, Alcalde / 16 de Septiembre and Revolución / Francisco Silva Romero avenues, from the Arcos de Zapopan neighbourhood until the Central Camionera Oriente of Guadalajara. It has 18 stations from south-east to north-west, of which 13 are elevated and 5 are underground. It stretches along 21.5 km. It is estimated that the line moves 233,000 daily passengers.
Line 4 is the fourth rail line of the Guadalajara Urban Electric Train System. It is 21.2 km (13.2 mi) long and will run from Las Juntas bus station of Mi Macro Calzada to the municipal capital of Tlajomulco. It is estimated that the number of daily passengers will be 106,000 passengers, and construction will cost 9.137 billion Mexican pesos. It officially began construction on May 22, 2022.
Jesús Pablo Lemus Navarro is a Mexican politician, businessman and communicator. He was president of the Employers' Confederation of the Mexican Republic (COPARMEX) of Jalisco, general director of Credicampo and, from 2015 to 2021, mayor of Zapopan in Jalisco. From 2021 to 2023, he was municipal president of Guadalajara. He is the governor-elect of Jalisco for the Citizens' Movement (MC) in the 2024 elections.
Kehila Abigail Ku Escalante is a Mexican politician. A member of the Citizens' Movement party, she is currently a member of the City Council of Guadalajara. She served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2018 to 2021, representing Jalisco in the LXIV Legislature. Prior to this, she was a member of the Congress of Jalisco from 2015 to 2018.
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