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Statue of George Washington, Mexico City (1916)

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Astatue of George Washington stands in Mexico City. It was presented as a gift to the city by the United States government in 1916.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Since 1970, it has been located in the Parque Rosario Castellanos.^[2]

An earlier sculpture of Washington by Pompeo Coppini in the same city was destroyed in 1914.^[4]^[5]

References[edit]

^ "George Washington Statue · Attractions". cdmxtravel.com. Secretaría de Turismo de CDMX. Retrieved 2020-06-19.

^ ^a ^b "George Washington Statue". Mexico City Travel. Retrieved 2020-06-19.

^ Gamboa Sánchez, Bernardo (2019-08-20). "Ruta por la Segunda Sección del Bosque de Chapultepec (para leer y caminar y ya)". local.mx (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-19.

^ "Texas' Unlucky Sculptor". Texas Co-op Power Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-19.

^ Villasana, Carlos; Gómez, Ruth (2019-07-26). "Washington en la capital, símbolo de amistad". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-19.

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