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Santa Eulalia, also known as as Aquiles Serdán by some of the older people. One of the oldest town in the Chihuahua’s history and an important part of the city beginning. In all that history, for what it is most known, is for its rich mines since the discovery in 1652 by the captain Diego del Castillo who was the cause of the beginning of Santa Eulalia. All its history make it to be one of the top 10 places to visit in Chihuahua states.

Santa Eulalia was founded because of the silver mine that was near. It was for a time a ghost town, until 1707 were they gave importance to the mines and it got populated immediately and the name Santa Eulalia de Mérida de Chihuahua. It stayed as an open mine until late XX century, after they close, the most important market in town was the tourism.

Santa Eulalia’s geography is a great location for its time and for the actuality tourism attraction. Located at 10 Km from the capital of Chihuahua, makes it close and great place to visit. Easy to get to the mining site, and also all around the town it’s full of historic sites to know about. Surrounded by mountains which are in fact full of mining sites, and inside the mountains are holes which were used to extract the minerals.

Santa Eulalia depends on its tourism since the mine close. They are offering different types of tourism involving the history mining. They are in the town several museums showing the history of the town, to the history of the mines, and examples of some minerals are shown.Also expeditions where you go into the caves where they mine, and in a part, there is an adventure park for those who like the adrenaline and the views.