12 Facts About Sierra Gorda

The Sierra Gorda is considered to be the far west of the La Huasteca region culturally and it is home to the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda World Heritage Site.

All of the Sierra Gorda is marked by very rugged terrain, which includes canyons and steep mountains.

The Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda was one of 94 winners of the Energy Globe competition among 700 entrants.

Culturally, the Sierra Gorda region is the far western part of La Huasteca, which extends over parts of the states of Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo and Veracruz.

However, the peoples of the Sierra Gorda had more ties with peoples to the west, north and east, than with the Mexican Plateau to the south.

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Areas in the far east and far west of the Sierra Gorda were dominated by the Spanish soon after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

However, during the early colonial period, the Queretaro Sierra Gorda would remain dangerous territory as the Chichimecas fought Spanish domination.

In 1740, the colonial government in Mexico City decided to extinguish indigenous resistance the Sierra Gorda, and send an expedition headed by Jose de Escandon to accomplish this.

The Sierra Gorda Rebellion began in 1847 by deserters from the Mexican army.

Sierra Gorda managed to take the main square of Queretaro in 1857.

Aracheology in the Sierra Gorda began just before the second half of the 19th century, when mine engineers reported archeological finds in the mountains.

Archaeological study of mining by the Sierra Gorda Project was begun in the 1970s, based on an earlier interdisciplinary study carried out at the Sierra de Queretaro.