DURANGO
Mexico
Duke made at least 7 movies here
The Sons of Katie Elder
The War Wagon
The Undefeated
Chisum
Big Jake
The Train Robbers
Cahill: U.S. Marshal
Durango is the name of both a state of Mexico and that state's capital city.
This article is about the state.
If you have ever seen a Western, then you probably know what the area
surrounding Durango looks like.
More than 110 movies have been filmed here,
with Durango second only to Hollywood for number of productions.
However, the amount of exposure the area has received gave rise
to the misconception that all Mexico is barren and rocky.
In reality, even Durango has forests, at the moment one of its lumber producers
is a supplier to Ikea, as part of a sustainable logging scheme.
Once you get over the thrill of the poncho and sombrero in the film sets,
then you will be able to appreciate the elegant colonial architecture,
for example in the Plaza de Armas.
Durango shares its name with the Spanish town because the founder
Don Francisco de Ibarra hailed from the Iberian town.
Durango (IPA pronunciation /du?ra?go/) is one of the constituent states of Mexico.
Its estimated population in 2003 was about 1,450,000 people.
The city of Durango is the capital.
The Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range located
in the western portion of the state.
This mountain range contains a plentiful supply of mineral deposits,
including the silver that encouraged Spanish occupation of the territory
after it was discovered.
These mines extend north into Chihuahua and south into the state of Zacatecas.
Culturally, Durango is famous for a type of musical style known as duranguense.
The major occupations in Durango are farming, lumbering and ranching.
Vast desert basins in the Laguna District are irrigated by the Río Nazas.
Major crops grown in the area include cotton, wheat, sugarcane, tobacco,
corn, and other vegetables.
Francisco de Ibarra, the first to colonize Durango, settled this part
of the vast northern province of Nueva Vizcaya in 1563,
when he founded the capital city and named it Durango
for his native town in Biscay, Spain; the foundation was just
one in his larger program of initiating settlements through the province.
This was a late colonization for the Spanish, mostly due to heavy
resistance to Spanish occupation by the indigenous population living there,
from first contact to modern times, in attempts to gain some autonomy,
address grievances, or maintain traditional land ownership.
Spanish colonists became highly attracted to the Durango area
for its mining and grazing capabilities. In 1823, shortly after
the Mexican revolutionary victory over Spain,
Durango earned the right to be a separate state.
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Durango- Wikipedia
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Sierra de Organos
Cap, Zacatecas, Mexico
Scenes from
The War Wagon
filmed here
The Organ Mountains is a collection of rock formations in
the municipality of Cap , Zacatecas , Mexico
Location
Located 30 km from the city of Cap , Zacatecas, Durango due to,
among pine-covered hills and sacaton on highway No.. 45;
45 appears a notice (to the right) to go to the Organ Mountains, 9 km.
Features
The climate varies from warm to hot during the day and cool to cold at night. .
On an immense rise these impressive natural sculptures formed by magma
and carved by the wind, have wavy lines and sensual forms that delight the walker.
Fauna
If you walk in silence, one can see rabbits, hares, quail, bluebirds,
turkeys, pigeons, raccoons, bobcat, gray fox or coyote who venture
to browse among the walkers.
Flora
Its flora has the features that gives the mild climate and the desert which are combined.
The vegetation consists of pines, acacias, oaks, cedars, mesquite, cactus,
palms samandocas, some cacti, grasses and pastures of low quality.
Some Movies filmed here:-
Anthony Quinn and Gregory Peck then filmed The Guns of Navarone.
Mexican cinema I take this place to shoot movies with actors such as
Maria Felix , Pedro Armendáriz , Ignacio López Tarso , July German ,
Jose Elias Moreno and many more.
International films such as The Cave in which participated
a former member of The Beatles , Ringo Starr .
More recently, several scenes were filmed there for the movie Cristiada,
which involved Andy Garcia and Eva Longoria
For more information:-
Sierra de Organos- Wikipedia