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Bernal, Querétaro

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Villa of San Sebastian Bernal better known as BERNAL is a colonial village founded on the 17th century, on the year 1647, placed to 40 minutes of Querétaro and two hours and a half of Mexico city. [1]

Bernal was founded by Don Julian Velásquez Feregrino. [2]. It has a current population of 2909, 1377 are males and 1532 are females. 1014 persons are counted as Economic Active Population and there are only 630 habited homes in town. [3]

It is known by his enormous monolith of massive rock, (Bernal's Rock); third higher in the planet http: // www.de-paseo.com/Bernal/PuebloMagico.htm The word Bernal is of Arabic origin and the Spanish used her to name something big and elongated crag that was isolated out in a plain or in the sea. Likewise, in otomi language: Ma'hando, in chichimeca: De'hendo, has the same meaning: “In the middle of two” [4].

Recently Bernal's Villa acquired the title of Magic Village. The Magic Villages are admitted for being localities that have magic symbolic attributes, legends, history, transcendental facts, that associate in each of his cultural manifestations, and that today mean a great opportunity for tourism. [5]

Bernal's Villa is located inside Ezequiel Montes, Municipality a few minutes of Colon and Caderyta. [6]

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