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> Location:
Cosalá can be reached by the federal highway No. 15, until the cruise that bears his name to 102 km. south of Culiacan, the state capital and 104 km. north of Mazatlan, or on the coastal highway to the junction with the city of La Cruz de Elota. Based on the cruise will travel 54 km. heading east on a paved road which since the beginning becomes an unforgettable experience because of the opportunity to see enormous and countless hills covered with lush vegetation which givers to view a sample of the grandeur of the landscape.
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Vado Hondo.- At only 12 kilometers from the municipal, nine of them paved and 3 of them unpaved in good condition, which is in terms of access for all vehicles, it is possible to reach the "Waterfalls Vado Hondo”, site of unique beauty surrounded by lush vegetation which is a series of waterfalls and natural pools that are ideal for swimming, hiking, observing flora and fauna, picture-making and the realization of riding, counting with ideal conditions for camping and outer observation.
With the recent construction of a dam in the stream of "Wellness Vado Hondo”, substantially improve the expectations of this beautiful place, to being able to perform the regulation of water and eliminate the time of his drought.
With the same intention to offer each day to our visitors, recently was built the first zip line exist in the northwest of the republic, as it can go through the waterfall area at an altitude above 40 feet, sustained only by a harness security, which will attract an influx of thousands of people who enjoy this type of adventure and, of course, will be a great meeting point for all of the cosaltecos. This new infrastructure option represents the opportunity to participate in a great adventure and enjoy a unique performance. Soon we will be offering the largest Tyrolean system throughout the country by installing a line of 750 meters, achieving a total of about 1.5 km. of traveling.
San José de las Bocas. Mining town and hot springs .- The distance to reach this site is 27 km, divided as follows: The first 8 paved taking the Cosalá-La Llama (Presa José López Portillo) highway, reaching the cruise access town of San Jose de las Bocas, which begins a journey of 14 km to the center of town, then a gap of 5 km passable for pick-up type vehicles, four-wheel drive or double shot, we reached the place where spring the hot springs, considered sacred by its mystical, magical and healing effects. This is a place where different elements are combined so dimensioned as single sites by the variety of options are gathered here to give a unique appeal. It is possible to practice flora and fauna observation, photography, hiking, swimming in natural pools, the ride, but mainly the contact with the microenvironment that allows finding a curative option for many conditions that can be solved through the effects of vapors and direct contact with thermal waters with abundant mineral content.
José López Portillo Dam. You arrive to the place traveling a distance of 33 kilometers starting from the municipal, 8 of them are paved and the remaining 23 are made up of a dirt road in good condition. The site offers the services of lodging, food and sport fishing through a service provider company. It is also an ideal place to sample some of the fish species that reproduce in the reservoir and are exquisitely prepared by the villagers themselves, such as tilapia and bass.
Guadalupe de los Reyes. Splendors of Mining.-preferably using pick-up or double shot type vehicles, it has to be traveled 35 kilometers of road covered with gravel to reach this site, which is, together with the Historic Center, the one that shows more surely the splendor of Cosalá of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, being able to appreciate its colonial architecture although it has suffered over the years, is still able to show the faces of the era. The splendor and the boom years of mining, were the result of this generous land which, with its abundant mineral content made it possible to become one of the most wealth generators places in north western Mexico. Thus it is possible to take a tour guided by its century church, the gazebo, meandering streets and alleys and the cell where the story says that he Heraclio Bernal was locked, who made many of its known actions in this instead, all of this in the heart of an environment of incredible natural landscapes in which they can enjoy the encounter with the lush and abundant flora and fauna of the region.
Ecological Reserve of “ Mineral de Nuestra Señora”.- Enacted in reserve on March 27 2002, it is located just eight kilometers from the municipal, taking access through a dirt road in very good condition that can be travel by all vehicles. On this site you can learn in detail the exploration and mining jobs. The natural conditions of this place make it an exceptional place for touring paths through which we can appreciate the flora and fauna, arriving in the area of existing petroglyphs and visit the green macaw aviary, second largest in the country of its kind.
Mexico Caves. Geological wonder .- To reach these caves were traveling 17 km, 7 of them on the paved road Cosalá "La Llama”, up to the vicinity of the community of Los Molinos and then another 10 km through dirt road in good condition with north direction up to the hill known as "La Gruta”.
In this extraordinary place we can admire a fascinating variety of shapes made by the hand of nature and the passage of time, in places unexplored by men.
Higueras de Padilla. Traditional milling sugarcane .- In the vicinity of the city, at a distance of 2.5 kilometers passable by a dirt road in excellent conditions we can access to Higueras de Padilla population, who keeps one of the oldest origin attractions as is the milling of sugar cane. In this place we found facilities and working utensils, which retain the original form and style, so it is of great interest to the visitors. As a result of the milling process of sugar cane, we can appreciate the production of honey, brown sugar and toffees.
The Rodeo. Artesian village .- At only 5 kilometers from the municipal, by a dirt road in good condition and passable for all type of vehicles, will reach the community of The Rodeo, a place of great tradition in handicrafts and gastronomy where its inhabitants are engaged in canning (papaya, sweet potato and lemon) a well as the manufacture of belts, sandals, hammocks, bags, saddles, hammocks, baskets, etc.
Historic Center. Monuments area, on this site it is possible to appreciate buildings from the XVII, XVIII and XIX centuries as: The kiosk, Plaza de Armas and the Temple of St. Ursula, the Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Jesuit convent, Franciscan convent, the Federal Palace House at the Reformation time, La Chinche, Alley Luis Perez Meza, exquisite colonial corner, La Quinta Minera representative of the most luxurious of the time, City Hall, current home of the municipal authorities and was once a house room, the Don Francisco Iriarte Conde house counties adjacent to the above, the Mining and Historical Museum, currently under renovation to make it a unique site, The San Juan Pantheon, being possible to make a trip either on foot or aboard on antique carriages pulled by horses throughout the town to assess the Zone of Historical Monuments.
Temples. The town's oldest church is the church of St. Francisco Javier built by the Franciscans between 1650 and 1700, made all of mud except the tops of the corners and bases that are quarried, the front is made of plated slab.
This building is now known as La Capilla de Guadalupe, unknown who actually named it or why. The church depended on the Franciscan Monastery whose building was located in what are now the streets of Hidalgo and Heraclio Bernal. In the mid-nineteenth century the monastery was abandoned by the Franciscan order withdrawing trough south lands, location of their main monasteries, this was due, possibly, to the implementation of the Reform Laws of 1857 which arises among other Confiscation Act which allowed clergy buildings were sold to private.
The church had 4 very fine bells because its precious metal alloy, three of them are currently missing with unknown destination, leaving only one of them as a year of his taking as the 1821 cast. The roof of this temple collapsed to three times between 1650 and 1900, having been rebuilt in 1950.
In the revolutionary period the church became the revolutionary headquarters of the different currents as were Villa and Carranza.
In 1961 came from Guadalajara Archbishop Francisco Javier Nuño who consecrated for worship again restarting the job of these and other religious acts after its interior and exterior reconstruction that occurred the year 1972.
This church unites a tunnel that goes from its ladder to the Franciscan Convent, and represents an attraction for the place.
The second church built in Cosalá was the St. Ursula Parish, which was built around 1730 by the Jesus Company, whose convent was situated opposite the place Palace, in what is now Gabriel Leyva Solano Street.
At its north eastern corner, on the vestry, was placed in the eighteenth century a solar clock that remains to this day and which represents a must for all visitors.
In this church conducted the wedding of the daughter of Don Francisco Iriarte Conde in the year of 1827, reported that a road of bars of silver was laid from the house of the bride's father to the door of the church, having been very important event happened to be a fact that confuses reality with the legend.
Two religious orders were in place to build their monasteries, the Franciscans in Hidalgo and Heraclio Bernal and the Jesuits front of the place on the street of Leyva Solano corner with Cerrada de la Fuente. These two buildings are standing and inhabited. Jesuit Convent in the main entrance is carved in pink stone the shield of the Jesuit order laborious. This order was expelled from Cosala, June 24, 1767, by King of Spain Charles III, forced to abandon all Jesuit convents inhabited any part of Spanish territory from Upper California to the jungles of Paraguay. The Franciscans in turn left their convent in about 1860 after the enactment of the Reform Laws.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Party: Cosalá is characterized by a diversity of cultural events, which are the result of centuries-old history, the fruit of their miscegenation and the effort of its people to preserve the customs of their ancestors. One of these expressions is the spectacle, which can participate each year on the eve of the Virgin of Guadalupe, when thousands of candles are lit and placed on the sidewalks of the streets, in doors and windows to delimit and illuminate the passage of the virgin by the serpentine streets of the city.
To this fascinating event, continues the serenade to Guadalupe Virgin and a series of festivities that shows the faith and devotion of cosaltecos people.
St. John and St. Ursula Days: Another important event is 24 June, St. John Day, the holiday is celebrated with a fair in which several different kinds of events are celebrated, highlighting the horse races, and sporting, artistic and cultural programs. Not less important are the celebrations of St. Ursula Day, patron saint of Cosalá, who is celebrating on October 21, date in which there is also made a large number of artistic, cultural, recreational and religious events.
Other Festivities: The enthusiasm also spills over into Cosalá, on March 13, the date of its foundation. The days of the dead, the celebration of mothers and national holidays are also events that invite visitors to Cosalá. From October 6, 2006, has been celebrated with great enthusiasm the anniversary of the declaration of Cosalá as a Magical Town.
Our Ghosts. One of the enigmas of Cosalá is the presence of ghosts in many of its ancient buildings. This is pointed out that the oral tradition through the centuries has been pointing out the places of the apparitions and the details of these.
The Woman in White. It is just one of those events that occurs from time immemorial in the Aragon Hernandez family house, located on Street Hidalgo, place where very often you can see a figure of a woman dressed in white, levitating, her hair loose as shaken by the wind and who shows on his face gaunt figure of death. Many have witnessed this occurrence but very few dare to enter the portals of the old mansion that housed in the past to one of the most powerful families of Cosalá, probably because nobody wants to have an early brush with death. Little is known about the origin of the woman in white, but by the antiquity of her legend it is supposed that it is the soul of one of the ancient inhabitants of the manor, who died without finding to date in his soul eternal rest
The Miner's Ghost. Another building in which it is customary to live with his ghosts, is the Campaña family house located on Guerrero Street. It is said that in the late seventeenth century there dwelt a miner whose flow of gold and silver were envied by people. This man liked in excess of the card game, which practiced every evening with other wealthy people, so that on one occasion had the good fortune and misfortune of winning a game which left in poverty to his opponents, which at such an affront decided to kill him, but not before subjecting it to an evil torture and immediately proceeded to bury him in the courtyard of the mysterious mansion and when they go to steal his fortune it was never found.
Thus, since then it is said and shown by the current residents, that are the wailing heard are constants, the gnashing of metal chains and the frequent opening of doors and windows as well as a different series of events through of which expresses the soul of mine who so far is looking for eternal rest. This fascinating encounter with the supernatural is possible to live in many of these farms that keep a great past and mystery.
> Gastronomy. Cosalteca gastronomy is rich and varied, highlighting the cane grindings with all its products, canning of fruits, bread, pies, custard, machaca, chorizo, cheese, tamales and regional dishes, which are a delight to the palate and can be tasted in restaurants and other places selling food.
> Crafts. There is great diversity of traditional crafts and great attraction for tourists. The most traditional crafts is represented by the harness, an activity that for centuries has been conducted and refined primarily in the neighboring community of Rodeo, whose artisans have already moved some of its local workshops located in the Historic Center, as it is possible to get and know by them the process of making saddles, belts, sandals, and a hole variety of leather and leather goods made by traditional methods. Also in the same community, there are domestic workshops where they are produced hammocks, bags and other fiber sisal, which is itself obtained by the villagers directly from the leaves of mezcal, so their knowledge is highly attractive for tourists.
> Cosala´s Tourism Offices:
H. Ayuntamiento de Cosalá
Rosales y Gabriel Leyva s/n Col. Centro C. P. 80700
Phone number: 01 696 965 00 01
www.vivesinaloa.com
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