page_title: Bajío
section_title: History of Bajío culture
hierarchical_section_title: Bajío / History of Bajío culture
caption_attribution_description: Español: Ubicación aproximada del Bajío Norponiente
context_page_description: The Bajío is a region of Central Mexico that includes parts of the states of Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Querétaro.
  The Bajío has repeatedly been recognized as the region with the best quality of life, the safest region, and the most dynamic in Mexico, sometimes credited that in Latin America too. Nowadays, the region is a economically vigorous service industry-oriented region that is experiencing an ongoing socioeconomic revitalization.
  The largest cities of Bajio are Guadalajara, León, Santiago de Querétaro and Aguascalientes.
context_section_description: Recent archaeological studies of the Bajío have discovered an extensive, historic cultural tradition unique to the region, particularly along the flood plains of the Lerma and Laja rivers. The Bajío Culture flourished from 300 to 650 CE, with cultural centers ranging from El Cóporo in the far north of Guanajuato to Plazuelas in the far south west.  More than 1,400 sites have been discovered throughout the state of Guanajuato, with only the sites of Cañada de la Virgen, El Cóporo, Peralta, and Plazuelas having received extensive study. This region was also known as La Gran Chichimeca in later years. It was the epicenter of the historic Chichimeca War, the Northern Revolutionary States, and cradle of Mexican War of Independence.
caption: Bajío Occidente (West Bajio).
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