Paseo del Centenario

Paseo del Centenario
Street in Mazatlán
View of the Paseo del Centenario (front) and the city of Mazatlán
Basic data
place	Mazatlan
District	Centro
Created	1910
Connecting roads	Covarrubias (in the north) and Joel Montes Camarena and Hilario Rodríguez Malpica (in the south); also the Paseo Olas Altas (northern "continuation")
Cross streets	Cruz, Batería, Camino a Observatorio, Venustiano Carranza
Buildings	Colegio El Pacífico (Centro Universitario de Mazatlán), Hogar San Pablo (ex-convento de Carmelitas)

The Paseo del Centenario is a street in the Mexican port city of Mazatlán in the state of Sinaloa . The street opened in 1910 and was named in memory of the War of Independence that began a hundred years earlier .

Location and history

The road runs between Paseo Olas Altas and Covarrubias in the north and Joel Montes Camarena and Hilario Rodríguez Malpica streets in the south. The last section of around 80 meters in length on the Malecón de Mazatlán , which is otherwise occupied by the Paseo Olas Altas , was only created after a hill had been removed. Therefore, the Paseo south of the cross street Covarrubias has a different name than the much older Paseo Olas Altas.

The Paseo del Centenario runs largely at the foot of the Cerro del Vigía along the Pacific and only offers no sea view between the cross streets Cruz and Batería , where it runs between the Colegio El Pacifico and the Hogar San Pablo .

The Colegio El Pacifico on its east side is a Christian educational institution opened in 1922 by missionaries John F. Corbin and Laurence Reynolds. It initially housed 18 students and now teaches 240 students. During the week the building is used as an educational facility and at the weekend as a religious meeting place.

The Hogar San Pablo on its west side is a home for street children that Father Pedro Tovar Cortés built in 1975 in a former Carmelite monastery . Before that, there was a poor house run by his nuns on his premises . But after a hurricane almost destroyed the monastery in 1975 , they left the ruins, which Father Tovar became aware of a few months later while walking and made his decision to run a home here for the street children he cared for.

The main initiator in the construction of the street was the German entrepreneur Jorge Claussen, who was also significantly involved in the construction of the Paseo Claussen named in his honor . At that time there was a relatively large and important German community in Mazatlán , which donated a viewing terrace on the top of Cerro del Vigía for the independence celebrations in 1910 . This was originally known as Glorieta Germania and is now called Ángela Peralta Pergola . On the same is one of three English cannons with which the city of Mazatlán was defended against the French naval forces by Fuerte 31 de Marzo on Paseo Claussen in March 1864 . The pergola is connected to the Paseo del Centenario by a concrete staircase that, a few meters away, leads up from Venustiano Carranza Street .

Web links

• Paseo Centenario: Antecedentes de su Creación (Spanish; accessed February 19, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ El Debate: Estudian rodeados de bellezas naturales ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; article of November 5, 2011) 
2. ^ Hogar San Pablo: Historia (Spanish; accessed February 19, 2014)
3. ↑ Lookout Points in Mazatlan: The Angela Peralta Pergola ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed February 20, 2014) 
4. ↑ Judith Guzmán: Cañón del Vigía / The Cañon del Vigia (Spanish and English; article from August 28, 2008)

Coordinates: 23 ° 11 ′ 26.4 "  N , 106 ° 25 ′ 35.7"  W.