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.
Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta is a Mexican architect and furniture designer.
Federico Fabregat was a Mexican visual artist, musician (dJ), filmmaker, and writer. He was born in 1975 in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
The Plaza de toros Nuevo Progreso is a bullring in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It is currently used for bull fighting and also for hosting musical events, and professional wrestling events. The bullring holds 16,561 people and was built in 1966 to 1967.
Luis Barragán House and Studio, also known as Casa Luis Barragán, is the former residence of architect Luis Barragán in Miguel Hidalgo district, Mexico City. It is owned by the Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía and the Government of the State of Jalisco. It is now a museum exhibiting Barragán's work and is also used by visiting architects. It retains the original furniture and Barragán's personal objects. These include a mostly Mexican art collection spanning the 16th to 20th century, with works by Picasso, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Jesús Reyes Ferreira and Miguel Covarrubias.
Club Deportivo Guadalajara, nicknamed "Chivas", is a Mexican professional football club based in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Jalisco. The team competes in the Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football. Guadalajara is one of the ten founding members of the Primera División and is one of seven teams that have never been relegated.
Andrés Casillas de Alba is a Mexican architect.
José Luis Real Casillas is a Mexican former professional footballer and sports development & youth academy director for Liga MX club Toluca.
Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín was a Mexican architect and engineer. His work has influenced contemporary architects visually and conceptually. Barragán's buildings are frequently visited by international students and professors of architecture. He studied as an engineer in his home town, while undertaking the entirety of additional coursework to obtain the title of architect.
Fernando González Gortázar was a Mexican architect, sculptor, and writer, considered to be one of the most influential Mexican architects of the 20th century.
Tatiana Bilbao Spamer is a Mexican architect whose works often merged geometry with nature. Her practice focuses on sustainable design and social housing.
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.
Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez, commonly referred to by his alias Ojo de Vidrio, is a Mexican suspected drug lord and former high-ranking leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco. He is the son-in-law of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the CJNG and one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords. He was reportedly responsible for managing money laundering schemes for the CJNG.
Anette Natalia Vázquez Mendoza, known as Anette Vázquez or her nickname, La Rata, is a Mexican professional football midfielder who currently plays for Guadalajara of the Liga MX Femenil, the first professional women's football league in Mexico. In 2017, she helped elevate Chivas to win the first professional women's football championship in the country in front of a record-setting 32,466 spectators. The team, with Vázquez as an important figure, won a league for a second time in the Torneo Clausura 2022. As of 2018 Vázquez also plays for the Mexico women's national under-20 football team and was selected for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, where she scored the only Mexican goal in the game against New Zealand.
A statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, is installed in a roundabout fountain in Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is a bronze sculpture supported by a large pedestal that names 18 notable citizens of the city. The statue has indigenous facial features and holds a spear and a shield. The phrase "May justice, wisdom and strength, guard this loyal city" is engraved as well. Initially, the statue was criticized by the citizens, but since then it has become a symbol of the city.
The Monumento a los Niños Héroes is a monument in Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. The monument is located in a roundabout that was later intervened by activists, who symbolically renamed it as the Glorieta de las y los desaparecidos.
An antimonumenta was installed in the Plaza de Armas, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on 25 November 2020, the date commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, during the annual march of women protesting against gender violence. The sculpture is symbolically named Antimonumenta and it was inspired by the anti-monument of the same name placed in Mexico City a year prior.
The Plaza de toros El Progreso was a bullring in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It was used for bullfighting and also for hosting musical events. The venue could hold 14,000 people and was built in 1856.
Ignacio Díaz Morales (1905–1992) was a Mexican architect, civil engineer, and educator. His work helped define contemporary architecture in the state of Jalisco. Díaz Morales was a founding member of the movement Tapatia School of Architecture, and in 1948 he founded the architecture department at the ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara.
Jorge Camberos Garibi was a Mexican architect.
