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Investigations into the Federal 45 corridor: its geography, its industrial history, its water, its power and its people. We publish the sources behind every figure and flag explicitly where those sources contradict one another.
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Geography
What is the Bajío?
The alluvial plain that made the Bajío the granary of New Spain is the same flat, well-connected ground that makes it industrial today.
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Economic history
The industrial history of the Bajío
Textile workshops, flour, refinery, assembly: four industrial waves on the same plain, each built on the last one's infrastructure.
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History
Silver, the mining camps and the road
Zacatecas 1546, Guanajuato 1548, and a road north that determined where the Bajío's cities would sit for the next four centuries.
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Demography
Population growth
Available labour, yes. But every new resident is also water demand on aquifers already in deficit.
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Infrastructure
The electrical grid
The constraint is not generating power. It is evacuating it. In 2026 several tenders were declared void explicitly for grid saturation.
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Water
The rainfall
Industrial water in the Bajío does not come from this year's rain. It comes from aquifers that recharge slowly and are pumped fast.
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