Templo del Sagrado Corazón, en Cuauhtémoc
It is located 65 miles west of Chihuahua. Cuauhtémoc was also known as Chocachi, which in Tarahumara means “resting or a shady place”.
When the mines from nearby Cusihuiriachi ran out of minerals in 1938, its inhabitants moved to Cuauhtémoc, where they changed their picks for plows, competing with the Canadian newcomers. Because of its growth, and important economy, the town deservedly got the title of ‘City’ on January 9, 1948.
Cuauhtémoc is a crucible of races; everything smells to apples and wheat, a farming tradition introduced to these latitudes by the Mennonite, while they learned from Chihuahuans to caress the land and mold it into adobes.
You must visit the cathedral, a replica of the Sacred Heart Church in Durango. A fire destroyed the old adobe church, which contained an 18th Century retable, but, like the phoenix bird, a new one on quarry emerged. In 1974, a statue of the Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc was placed at the city’s entrance.
