About Nuevo Casas Grandes
Nuevo Casas Grandes is located in the north part of the State of Chihuahua, 321 km from Chihuahua City. It is one of the most modern cities of the region, with the best tourist infrastructure, counting with high level hotels and restaurants, plus being surrounded by an endless list of interesting places to visit. Its geographical position, a few kilometers from the United States, creates a friendly contact with Colorado and other places in the neighboring northern country.
No doubt, one of its most representative symbols is the Railroad Station, which in its moment was the ignition for the city’s development. It was built in 1898 to be a headquarters but is in 1911 when becomes a railroad station. Another place preferred by children and grownups is Fierro Lagoon, which hides a great legend and is the main attraction during Easter.
There are Mormon colonies that form part of the culture of the city and call the attention of tourism, due Mexico is mainly a Catholic country. These groups with highly traditional features arrived from the United States in the early XX century. Colonia Juarez is located 23 km from Casas Grandes, where there are temples and orchards. Colonia Dublan is located at the entrance of Nuevo Casas Grandes and it also counts with temples and orchards.
Around the city there are charming places for tourism: Arroyo de los Monos (Brook of the Monkeys), which has cave paintings and petroglyphs from pre-Columbian cultures; Madero Aquatic Park counts with a refreshing grove and sports courts; La Manga Ranch, where is possible to practice mountaineering, camping, fishing and horse rides.
Nuevo Casas Grandes offers two archeological zones of great importance in the north side of Mexico: Paquime and Cuarenta Casas (Forty Houses). Paquime, just half kilometer from Nuevo Casas Grandes, was a pre-Columbian community that started, developed and fell between the XIII-XV centuries, without ever seeing the arrival of the Spanish conquerors. This culture influenced by other from the south of the now United States features constructions made of bricks and doors with the shape of a “T”. Some of the main constructions are baptized as: Casa de los Hornos (House of the Ovens), Casa del Pozo (House of the Well) and Casa de los Muertos (House of the Dead), among other.
Due the importance and amazement that this zone causes, UNESCO has declared it World Culture Heritage. Together to the archeological zone is located the Culturas del Norte Museum (Museum of the Cultures of the North), with an architecture harmonious with Paquime’s environment, that shows different materials related with northern Mexican ethnic groups.
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