This territory belongs to ‘‘The City’’ ejido, and it’s one of the more significant, because it was the horseshoe road to transport the mineral of Ventanas and the ‘‘Mala noche’’ mineral, according to the most longevity people of the community, this road was one of the most traveled by the bandit of roads Heraclio Bernal, who inspire Pancho Villa at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.
Today on this gazer place, we still observe a beautiful views and waterfalls of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and also we can reach to see the cause of the El Presidio river, where born the ravine of the El Salto P.N. and goes to Villa Union, Sinaloa.
This lagoon tuck form because from there pulls out the rock for grind and throw asphalt during the construction of the free road Durango – Mazatlán, it was like that how they stay a great hole in time of rain it fills and overflow of clear water. .
The lagoon has 150mts. approximately with a depth of 5mts. approx. Currently today the persons of the ‘‘La Ciudad’’ town use it as a watering place in summer time.
&This gazer place is located in the highest mountain in the south of the La Ciudad town.
It was built by the ‘‘La Ciudad’’ ejido and the secretary of CONAFOR, with the purpose of detect fire on dry season, due the altitude of aprox. 70mts and reach a visibility of 25km on a 360º view, making easy to locate fires.
Today also its used as a touristic attractive, because offers a beautiful landscapes.
Touristic landscape who is located inside 14,000 hectares of the ‘‘La Ciudad’’ ejido, we can localize at 1km from the Mexiquillo waterfall. Was given the name of ‘‘The Slippery Step’’ for been a shallow very slippery in rainy season.
In the 40’s approximately, this place was used as a camp for houses and offices of the engineers who has building at the side and the tunnels for the trail of the train from Duranto to Mazatlan. Today it’s a touristic attractive for camping, because the shallow where the rivers pass make beautiful waterfalls
The hermit can be found at the 157km of the road Durango-Mazatlan at 12km from Hostal Mexiquillo, this place identifies with a giant cross, in memory of the first bishop of the Obregon city, Jose Soledad de Jesús Torres Castañeda, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered the 4th of march of 1967. .
Today every first Sunday of the month of March and the last Sunday of October they make an eucharist, where thousands of catholic believers meet at the place for baptism the child’s or their first communion.
People of diverse states of the republic visit this place for give thanks relative to the miracles who this bishop has done after he expire; for that, around the grave for a time, it can observe altarpiece of people from all the Mexican Republic and Pueblo Nuevo.
This gazer place it’s found at 6km from Mexiquillo by the road to the borbollones and neveros towns.
In this spot we can view the lights of the lighthouse of Mazatlán, the light of the pier and the ships who navigate in the front of the port of Mazatlán. Ideal place for enjoy a beautiful lunada
In this lane of the park can be found numerous formations of rocks and can reach higher than 7mts or even 8mts of altitude, this forms are made at base of igneous rock extrusive, and in minor proportion rhyolite; also it exist a few forms of basalt and plutonic rock. This zone of the park are known by the natives as the Garden of Stones making allusion of a singular disposition of rocks trough the clear of the forest.
This compilation of petrified lava rocks assembly enormous monoliths. When you visit the place, the first thing you though its ‘‘I am in the moon or in a cinematography set?’’. The doubt start because, in case of encounter you in the middle of a vast landscape of conifers forest, entering a semidesertic plain where the only habitants are strange rocky formations, with almost every border rounded. The explanation for this phenomenon goes back to the prehistoric age. Millions of years ago, a great mass of incandescent magma cover the surface of the earth. The wind make erosion and polish the rock, only que most dense survive the worn out. You can have the certainly of what you have under your feet’s, are rocky forms sculpted by the whim of the mother nature which still exist and will see the light within of millions of years more.
In the park exists numerous waterfalls; besides some of them doesn’t belong to the road of the common tour for tourists, the most famous is Mexiquillo’s waterfall other great attraction, it has a beautiful waterfall over basaltic rocks forming a gorgeous rainbow during sunny days, it has over 30mts of high, and a fall where sometimes que tourist can intern below the water curtain. The visit is unspeakable and the most courageous can’t resist practicing rappel.
In the park exists numerous waterfalls; besides some of them doesn’t belong to the road of the common tour for tourists, the most famous is Mexiquillo’s waterfall other great attraction, it has a beautiful waterfall over basaltic rocks forming a gorgeous rainbow during sunny days, it has over 30mts of high, and a fall where sometimes que tourist can intern below the water curtain. The visit is unspeakable and the most courageous can’t resist practicing rappel.
Part of the main tour of the route are called embankment, this road was abilitated through the forest for carrying the train paths and in the steepest parts, and they build tunnels for saving the hard terrains for tracking. In Mexiquillo exists nine principal tunnels, all of them with amplitude of 5mts and a height of 6 mts to make it easier the pass of the train without construction, the longest comes from 100mts to 1,68km. They are built in form of vaults of canion. It’s highly recommended to use flashlights during the trip because in the interior of the rock the visibility is low. The last tunnel was blocked in the 2009 year by the fall of the soil occur in rainy season.
In the Porfiriato’s age started the promise of constructing one of the most important of the country and Latin America’s: the railway of Durango-Mazatlan. The construction was suspended during the revolution, restarting in 1928 until they reached El Salto. In 1951 the Miguel Aleman president, from remote control from the Belmar hotel gives once again, the opening of the construction during the management of Adolfo López Mateos he suspended the work indefinitely. One axis of development that would maybe change the destiny of our Durango city and the places where it was projected to pass. After this great human and economical enforcement, they prepared works, the built never conclude and everything there was lost between the ghosts of their own victims…until now.
The trace and border of the railway even when still incomplete from the El Salto passing by numerous ranch’s and continuing unto passing exactly near the Mexiquillo cascade where after many years of been abandoned, once again it will recover life, but for now as an adventure tourist resource.
The Baluarte bridge it’s a strapped bridge located in the Occidental Mother of Mountain Range on the limits of the estates of Durango and Sinaloa, over the highway of Durango-Mazatlán, in México. It’s the highest bridge strapped in the world, this is the reason why it received the award from Guinness Records. It has the length of 1124mts, width 20mts, a vain of 520mts and a height over the Baluarte River of 402.57mts. The beginning of the construction was the 21 of February of 2008, and was inaugurated the 5 of January from 2012, although took more than a year for been open to the public.
