QuerEtaro, city, Mexico, Mexican Political Geography

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QuerEtaro[kArA´tArO] Pronunciation Key, officially Santiago de QuerEtaro, city (1990 pop. 385,503) and capital of QuerEtaro de Arteaga state, central Mexico. It is a distribution center with industries producing machinery and farm implements; the city's cotton mills are among the most important in Mexico. QuerEtaro is also a popular tourist center. An Aztec city, QuerEtaro was conquered by the Spanish in 1531. The conspiracy (1810) under Hidalgo y Costilla and Allende that led to the revolution against Spain was planned there. The city was the temporary capital of Mexico when the United States invaded (1847) during the Mexican War. In 1867, Emperor Maximilian and his generals Miguel Miramon and TomAs Mejia were forced to surrender and then taken out and shot on a hill outside the city. In 1917 the Mexican Constitution was written in QuerEtaro, which retains numerous colonial landmarks and is famous for its 18th-century aqueduct.

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