Querétaro (Spanish pronunciation: [keˈɾetaɾo]), officially Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro), is one of 31 states that, with the Federal District, compose the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities. Its capital city is Santiago de Querétaro.
It is located in North-Central Mexico, in a region known as Bajío. It is bordered by the states of San Luis Potosí to the north, Guanajuato to the west, Hidalgo to the east, México to the southeast and Michoacán to the southwest.
The state is one of the smallest in Mexico, but it is also one of the most heterogeneous geographically, with ecosystems varying from deserts to tropical rainforest, especially in the Sierra Gorda, which is filled with microecosystems. The area of the state was located on the northern edge of Mesoamerica, with both the Purépecha Empire and Aztec Empire having influence in the extreme south, but neither really dominated it. The area, especially the Sierra Gorda, had a number of small city-states, but by the time the Spanish arrived, these had all been abandoned, with only small agricultural villages and seminomadic peoples inhabiting the area. Spanish conquest was focused on the establishment of the Santiago de Querétaro, which still dominates the state culturally, economically and educationally.
Querétaro is a state in Mexico.
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Santiago de Querétaro (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe keˈɾetaɾo]) is the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro, located in central Mexico. It is part of the macroregion of Bajío. It is located 213 kilometers (132 mi) northwest of Mexico City, 63 kilometers (39 mi) southeast of San Miguel de Allende and 200 kilometers (120 mi) south of San Luis Potosí. The city of Querétaro is divided into seven boroughs: Josefa Vergara y Hernández, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Centro Histórico, Cayetano Rubio, Santa Rosa Jáuregui, Félix Osores Sotomayor and Epigmenio González. In 1996, the historic center of Querétaro was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Querétaro has repeatedly been recognized as the metro area with the best quality of life and as the safest city in Mexico and also as the most dynamic in Latin America. It is a strong business and economic centre and a vigorous service city that is experiencing an ongoing social and economic revitalization. Querétaro has seen an outstanding industrial and economic development since the mid 1990s. Querétaro metropolitan area has the 2nd highest GDP per capita among Mexico's metropolitan areas with 20,000 USD after Monterrey. The city is the fastest-growing in the country, basing its economy to IT and data centers, logistics services, aircraft manufacturing and maintenance, call centers and manufacturing center for automotive and machinery industry, chemicals and food products. The region of Querétaro has a rapidily growing vineyards agriculture and it hosts the famous wine producer from Spain: Freixenet, the wine production in Querétaro is now the second largest in Mexico after the Baja California region.
You always knew a way to find my good half
And I knew just the way to make you cry
But I ain't giving nothing to the girls in Hollywood
I've got a picture of my princess in a red dress
Goddamn, she's looking good
And they'll be dancing in the aisles
When we're standing face to face
Get a hotel room on our honeymoon
At some mighty fancy place
You'll be pretty as a princess
And I made up my mind
And I'll open up your car door every time
Long as you can reach over and unlock mine, oh
And I'll see you just in time to break the scene
I'll rent a linen suit and a limousine
And babe, I beg your pardon for this ordinary place
I got money for the matinee of strangers
And a million actors faces
And they'll be dancing in the aisles
When we're standing face to face
Get a hotel room on our honeymoon
At some mighty fancy place
You'll be pretty as a prom date
When you take all my blues
And I won't mind all that goddamn makeup
If you wear your dancing shoes
I love the way your bosom makes
For an envious blouse
Gonna tie your Sunday dresses in a rope
And you crawl down the house just to meet me
Pretty girls are made for pretty pictures
And witches are the women on the strip
But baby, you were cut from Cashmere and I'll be lying here, now
'Neath these sheets and deep asleep, my baby
And my hands tangled in your hair
But they'll be dancing in the aisles
When we're standing face to face
Get a hotel room on our honeymoon
At some mighty fancy place
You'll be pretty as a princess
And it's easy to see
If you don't steal all the damn covers