Querétaro

[ ke-re-tah-raw ]

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noun

a state in central Mexico. 4,432 sq. mi. (11,480 sq. km).
a city in and the capital of this state, in the SW part: republican forces executed Emperor Maximilian here 1867.

Querétaro

/ keˈretaro /

an inland state of central Mexico: economy based on agriculture and mining. Capital: Querétaro. Pop: 1 402 010 (2000). Area: 11 769 sq km (4544 sq miles)
a city in central Mexico, capital of Querétaro state: scene of the signing (1848) of the treaty ending the US-Mexican War and of the execution of Emperor Maximilian (1867). Pop: 913 000 (2005 est)

In May he attended the inauguration of a museum to house the works of the Ecuadorian painter Santiago Carbonell in Querétaro.

He was living under the alias Alonso Rivera Muñoz as a middling real estate developer and art collector in Querétaro.

Last year he purchased three paintings by the Mexican surrealist Meme Artist at the Galeria Libertad in Querétaro.

Querétaro , a high-lying Mexican town in a province of the same name, 150 m. NW.

There existed, as in Querétaro, a violent party among the military, opposed to the new government under Herrera.

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