GET TO KNOW THE BEAUTIFUL PLACE

WHERE EDUARDO WAS BORN

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At a beautiful place our beloved Eduardo spent his youth. He grew as child and played surrounded by a splendid environment of beautiful nature. It's for sure a contribution to his internal peace was given by the splendid peaceful nature all around him in his beautiful place of childhood.

Eduardo was born in Ciudad Mante, just a few ours drive from the town where he grew up Xicoténcatl. This in the state of Tamaulipas Northern Mexico. Here for the reader interesting information about the beautiful state that gave birth to a huge Star

The region where now the city Cd Mante is located was known in the past by the name "five meadows of the horses", a language "Tenek" which means "Place of the canoes"

Sir Hipólito Avilés, from Cd. Mante, a man who did some research, claimed that the word "Mante" was derived from the word "náhuatl" from the náhuatl people, the word consisting of three vowels from this language."man", "atl" and "tetl" means in respective order "place of", "water" and "stone" . Join the words together makes up "The place of water in the stone" , or "where the water flows out of the stone" . Pointing towards the origin and birth of the river Rio Mante, where the river wells from the rocks of the Mountains de Cucharas.

But the previous cannot be true, because in this region nobody ever spoke about the native people being náhuatl people as natives, on the contrary it's proven that the people who lived here in the past where in fact huastecas, mayan people, and the language they used was "tének" or "huasteco" , but certainly not náhautl.

After consulting various highly educated historians who performed an in depth investigation studying "tének" , it's known the word "Mante" was a conjunction of two words, formed by two races who once lived here: the word "man" means "yellow" , and the word "te" means "trunk, mast" or "tree" . A profound view, referred at the yellow tree, is the tree which bears the same name, and indeed is a bright yellow coloured tree, which has beautiful yellow leaves when it's grown mature and bears fruit. At a distance, then this tree indeed appears to be yellow.

So it's the tree that gave the name to the river Rio Mante, and centuries later to the city Ciudad Mante as well. Most of the claims of sir Avilés are correct, but the claim of the origin of the name "Mante" was not correct, it was not "where the water flows out of the rock" but indeed the version of the tree.

The fact is this beautiful tree gave birth to the name "Mante" , the tree has the same name and is part of the biological species of the "Zapotáceos" , "Mante" means "yellow tree."

City (Ciudad) Mante is a very attractive tourist resort, a wonderful place to be, a prosperous and beautiful part of Mexico. All the places in the vicinity of this city are mentioned in greater detail, with their characteristics.

El Nacimiento, this town just 11 km ( 7 miles) away from Ciudad Mante, offers accessible by road all year round, and the most beautiful spot is a well of water, surrounded by the rocks of the Cucharas mountains. This fantastic holiday resort can be enjoyed by family, spending a great day on the countryside. You can swim here, relax on the lake by boat, and there is a magnificent cave, when you look at the entrance of it you see crystal clear water, pure and of drinking quality. It reflects in a beautiful emerald green colour, illuminated by the light of the opening in the cave.

La Aguja is another splendid resort, just 7 km (4 miles) away from Ciudad Mante, it's a lake formed by a dam built over the river Rio Mante, and the lake is used for irrigation of the huge lush green sugar-cane fields of the area. This engineering marvel was constructed during 1927, lasting until 1927 when it was inaugurated. You can travel by boat until arriving at it's origin

Las Playitas del Limón, just 12 km (7 miles) north of Mante, is the nice town el Limón, where the friendly, warm citizens are closely related to Ciudad Mante. Down to the riverbanks, we find a very nice area where rivers merge. Before arriving at the Playitas, the river Sabinas, the river Frío, merge into the river Guayalejo. This place is visited by huge amounts of tourists, attracted by the tranquillity and peace of the landscape, the crystal clean unpolluted shallow waters of the river.

The two caves, cave del Abra, and cave las grutas de Quintero, are two caves of the mountains de Cuchara, the favourite and best known attractions of the region. Attractive too because of their proximity to ciudad Mante. It's worthwhile to pay a visit to admire the depths of the cave which entrance shows a depth of 116 meters (330 feet) The cave was entered and partly explored by speologists of San Antonio (Texas) in 1956, and the other cave, la gruta de Quintero offers you a spectacular view of thousands of bats, who live in this cave and find shelter and food there.

Shown on this photo, build in the 19th century as a huge building, part of the vast hacienda "El Naranjo" (The Orange Haciendo). It was famous in it's time, famous people like General Porfirio Díaz visited it. The building stands south of the town Nuevo Apolonia.

CASTLE of "LA NUEVA APOLONIA"

The dam Ramiro Caballero Dorantes is to be visited by a drive over the highway leading towards the big city Tampico. Before arriving you'll pass the magnificent bridge over the river Rio Guayalejo, and there is a diversion you can take, which brings you to the dam Estudiante Ramiro Caballero Dorantes, where you can enjoy fishing. It's an enclave where you will see abundant numbers of white winged doves, ducks, and goose. The dam is a massive wall of 1,6 kilometres (1 mile) and has a height of 10 meters (33 feet). The dam created a lake of 10,000 hectares.

El Bernal de Horcasitas, is a landmark feature, which cannot be missed by any visitor travelling over the highway Mante-Tampico. The extinguished volcano rises up from the flat farmland over 820 meters ( 2600 feet). This awesome natural monument, stands tall and alone in the relatively flat tropical landscape. No other mountain this kind can be found within a radius of 45 kilometres. It will make a lasting impression on every tourist visiting this beautiful mexican state!

El Cielo (The Heaven) is an area covering 144,530 hectares, and is a wildlife paradise. A vast number of wildlife species find a save haven here, 175 different species of migrating birds, and 225 birds that live there permanently. Abundant numbers of amphibians, and mammals, like the deer "cola blanca" , black bear, jaguars. In wintertime you'll see a bright yellow butterfly, only seen here in Tamaulipas! This abundance of wildlife is possible by the excellent topographic location, warm balmy tropical climate. All of this together makes up an unique biological biotope, unique on Earth.

Church in Xicotencatl

PLAZA XICOTENCATL

Countless times Eduardo spent time being here during his youth, driving his motorbike, or cycling.

There is a Taco eatery on the central plaza where you can enjoy eating the most delicious tacos of Mexico.