Chihuahua City
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Chihuahua City, capital of the state of the same name, is home to over 700,000 people, the largest Ford motor plant in the Americas, and revolutionary hero Pancho Villa. Villa’s mansion was made into the Museo de la Revolución Mexicana, where you can see the bullet-spattered car in which he was assassinated in 1923. A fiery independence leader, Father Miguel Hidalgo, was also executed here in 1811; his body briefly interred in the state’s oldest church, the baroque Iglesia de San Francisco.

While municipal buildings decorated with murals, and the sumptuous Iglesia cathedral are among Chihuahua’s attractions, this large industrial city is shaped by mining wealth. It is the canyon region that makes it of interest to foreign tourists, for hiking, kayaking, rafting, fishing, and hunting expeditions as well as the famous railroad. Santa Eulalia, the original site of the town 30 miles to the southeast, is a recently restored colonial treasure. To the northeast of the city, the Nombre de Dios cavern formations are another tourist attraction.