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The Hotel Real de Chapala is located in Ajijic, Jalisco, 50 km from the City of Guadalajara, 30 minutes from the International Airport, is located in the La Floresta neighborhood on the shores of Lake Chapala and has 80 rooms.

How is the town where the Congress is held?

 

In the Nahuatl language, Axixic means:

¨Place where the water springs up¨ or ¨Place where the water splashes¨

 

Ajijic as a Spanish settlement, was founded in 1531 and is one of the oldest and most beautiful towns in Mexico. The conquest of this area, at that time known as Mar Chapalteco, was in the hands of the gentleman Alonso Dávalos, and at the same time the conversion of the natives to Christianity by the father Fray Martín de Jesús,

who here established the second oldest convent in western New Spain, in honor of San Francisco de Asís.

 

The narrow and cobbled streets show us its provincial architecture in which the adobe facades stand out with their tile roofs, smells, flavors, textures and colors, the parish, the chapel and few residences, date to the Spanish influence, but It was not until 1930 to 1940 that this fishing village became a magnet for foreigners, it has become the hybrid of a fishing village and a community of North Americans and foreign artists.

Xapa Wiyemeta Sacred Lake of Chapala

 

Nothing that happens can be out of the context of communication with the essences of life.

 

Lake Chápala is one of the oldest sacred sites in Mexican territory, according to the Huichol cosmogony. The Wixarikas or Huicholes, those who were born from the heart, the iyari, are one of the purest living cultures in Mexico and the world: they have maintained the same sacred sites for thousands of years, they visit them; they come into contact with their gods, the same ones who spoke with their ancestors; They are accomplished artists, like the ancient Toltecs: both music, song, clothing, crafts, and above all, the mystical arts, represent gifts that recent generations still have. The lake of

 

Chápala or Xapa Wiyemeta, in the Huichol language, is the site that corresponds to the South one of the five sacred points, which have been visited since time immemorial, like Wirikuta the East - Haramara the West, Hauxa Manake the North and Tekata the Center. Together they represent the four forces and the center that sustain the world

 

Huichol spiritual. Perhaps one of the most valuable efforts of the Wixaritari culture is to keep open the channels of connection with the source of all that exists, through rituals in places of power, long walks, sleepless nights and fasts.