Zacatecas Mexico Highways

As you drive on Zacatecas Mexico highways you'll discover that it was a very important mining region during the colonial era known for its rich deposits of silver ore and later on, during the Mexican Revolution played a key role in the construction of today's Mexico. The highways will take you to the Sierra de Organos and the Sierra de Cardos, where you can see impressive rock formations, making them the ideal spots for trekking, rock climbing and rappelling as well as other adventure sports. The state capital, also named Zacatecas Mexico, has magnificent architecture of great variety in colors of quarry stone make examples of the Mexican Baroque architecture that will take you to times of past as you walk along the sloped streets, alleys and through the plazas of once a mining city. The UNESCO has declared the Historic downtown of the city of Zacatecas a World Heritage Site.