Colima Mexico - state & city same name, Colima. is a tiny state of western Mexico on the central Pacific coast, includes the 4 oceanic Revillagigedo Islands. Mainland Colima shares borders with
the states of Jalisco & Michoacán. In addition to the capital city of Colima, the main cities are Manzanillo & Tecomán.
Colima's main crops are 🍋, melons, 🥭, papaya, 🍉, yellow seedless 🍉 & 🍌. Other crops include 🌽, sugar cane, jalapeno chilies, 🍒 🍅& 🥒.
Popular food here is
Sopitos -
Small fried tortillas with shredded meat & local cheese.
Tamales de Chihuilin - 🌽 tamales are steamed in 🍌 leaves,
The flavour is
unique as pork lard is used along with local chihuilines fish from the river
Chicharron en Salsa -
Deep fried pork skin served in a red or
green sauce.
Fish Ceviche -
ground fish that is marinated in lime juice & then drained producing a dry-style ceviche.
It’s often with red snapper but it can be made with any local fish.
Chilayo - pork &
vegetable stew served with rice & pickled 🧅.
Pozole Seco - dry white pozole, which has
practically no broth topped with 🥓, 🥬, 🧅 , radish.
Menudo - cow guts (tripe) soup
Chamorro-
Slow cooked pork leg served in a spicy sauce.
Atole -
A drink made with 🌽 with a bit of vanilla & cinnamon.
Tejuino -
fermented 🌽, molasses, cinnamon, 🧂& lime over crushed ice
Tuba -
alcoholic drink uses sap from 🥥
palm trees are fermented then topped with toasted 🥜.
Tuxca -
An alcoholic drink that ferments sap from local agave plants.
Colima Mexico has 1 of highest murder rate per capita & 1 of the highest crime rates, due to its ports being a contested area for cartels and cartel activities.
It is the 4th smallest federal entity after Tlaxcala, Morelos & the Federal District of Mexico City, containing only 0.3% of the country's total territory. The state is
in the middle of Mexico's Pacific coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean & the states of Jalisco & Michoacán.
Colima cartel has become a branch of the Sinaloa Cartel as are the Milenio Cartel, Guadalajara Cartel, & Sonora Cartels.
Colima marks the latest manifestation of violence in one of Mexico’s smallest yet deadliest states — a dubious honor attributable to Colima’s location along the
territorial fault lines dividing Mexico’s most powerful cartels.
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