{"id":103,"date":"2015-04-30T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-05-14T08:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:07:20","slug":"taxco-november-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Taxco, Mexico, November 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Taxco<\/a><\/p>\n

Year:<\/strong> 2003 (November 2003) <\/p>\n

11″ x 8.5″<\/strong><\/p>\n

Media:<\/strong> Canon\u00ae Pro Platinum High Gloss Photo Paper<\/p>\n

Printers:<\/strong> Canon\u00ae PIXMA<\/p>\n

Color<\/strong><\/p>\n

Art:<\/strong> Photo<\/p>\n

Artist:<\/strong> Luc Paquin<\/p>\n

Taxco<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taxco de Alarc\u00f3n (usually referred to as simply “Taxco”) is a small city and administrative center of a municipality of the same name (Taxco de Alarc\u00f3n) located in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The name Taxco is most likely derived from the Nahuatl word tlacheco, which means “place of the ballgame.” However, one interpretation has the name coming from the word tatzco which means “where the father of the water is,” due to the high waterfall near the town center on Atatzin Mountain. “De Alarc\u00f3n” is in honor of writer Juan Ruiz de Alarc\u00f3n who was a native of the town. Like many municipalities in central Mexico, the municipality\u2019s coat-of-arms is an Aztec glyph. This glyph is in the shape of a Mesoamerican ballcourt with rings, players and skulls, derived from the most likely source of Taxco\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

The city is heavily associated with silver, both with the mining of it and other metals and for the crafting of it into jewelry, silverware and other items. This reputation, along with the city\u2019s picturesque homes and surrounding landscapes have made tourism the main economic activity as the only large-scale mining operation here is coming to a close.<\/p>\n

Taxco is located in the north-central part of the state, 36 kilometres from the city of Iguala, 135 km from the state capital of Chilpancingo and 170 km southwest of Mexico City. The city was named one of Mexico\u2019s “Pueblos M\u00e1gicos” (Magical Towns) due to the quality of the silverwork, the colonial constructions and the surrounding scenery.<\/p>\n

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Year: 2003 (November 2003) 11″ x 8.5″ Media: Canon\u00ae Pro Platinum High Gloss Photo Paper Printers: Canon\u00ae PIXMA Color Art: Photo Artist: Luc Paquin Taxco Taxco de Alarc\u00f3n (usually referred to as simply “Taxco”) is a small city and administrative center of a municipality of the same name (Taxco de Alarc\u00f3n) located in the Mexican … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}