Bajío de San José
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Bajío de San José is a town (Delegacion) in the Municipality of Encarnación de Díaz (see the Municipality's weblink) in Jalisco, Mexico. It is composed of two villages: Rangel, which was founded in the 19th century within the Hacienda de Rangel, and Bajío de San José. Both towns add up to approximately 8,000 inhabitants. The town is noted for dairy farms, dairy products, and retail furniture. Bread, especially bolillo and conchas; pork, especially chicharron prensado (fried pork), and chili are traditional meals, in some places still produced using traditional recipes.
Bajío de San Jose is 30 minutes away from the city of Aguascalientes. Citizens from Bajío de San Jose have access to 2 highways going north to Aguascalientes, south to Encarnación de Díaz, east to El Tecuán and south to Encarnacion de Diaz. Being on the edge of Jalisco's state line its only six km away from the border state line of Jalisco with Aguascalientes.
Hacienda de Rangel was part of the Rincon Gallardo emporium (mayorazgo). The Rincon Gallardo family sold Hacienda to Don Nicolas Cuellar and smaller sections to other farmers. Don Nicolas Cuellar rebuilt the old temple of Nuestra Senora del Refugio (1866), which is the only historical landmark preserved in town.