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Hotel Torres Del Fuerte/ The most beutifull hotel in the canyons
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OOPS! Forgot the posting. A.
Rod and I have purchased some wonderful colonial doors and a gate from Jesus Torres in El Fuerte. Jesus has still some doors both with and without windows (and shutters). In addition we viewed some beautiful cantera sinks and other stone items. I know there is more stuff but we stopped him at doors as we didn't want to find any more goodies.
Jesus and Francisco are rennovating Jesus' childhood home in El Fuerte as a hotel. It is gorgeous! There are very tasteful rooms with many antiques. There are ponds with ducks. There are ramadas thick with vines and a wonderful wine "cellar" in the restaurant.
The hotel is just opening so I can't vouch for the service but it would be difficult to find a more genuinely friendly and caring host than Jesus Torres nor a more beautiful and peaceful setting only steps from the plaza.
I thought you all might like to know.
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[alamosnews] Great Goods from Francisco
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Hal and I have recently picked up some excellent paving cantera and other extraneous antique items from Francisco Torres, friend and owner of the Hotel Torres in El Fuerte, Sinaloa, just down the track from us here in Alamos. Wonderful hotel, btw, with a fantastic chef. Soft beds, great food. Lovely atmosphere. Thought I'd share the info. - Michelee
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I can vouch for Francsico's family's hotel in El Fuerte, we stayed there last year on our way back from the Canyon and it was one of the best experiences we have ever had, the hotel is beautifully decorated and the restaurant is fabulous as was the Torres families personal attention to all details. Saludos Francisco, desde Mazatalan.
Susan y Hector SilvaTravel.
Susan Harp Silva
Jesus Solorzano # 120 Fracc. El Toreo
Mazatlan, Sin. Mexico C.P. 82120
Tel: (669) 983-3769
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Cell: 044-669-116- 5744
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Oops!#message8846842254417672217086504987124643397683902 { overflow:auto; visibility:hidden }
OOPS! Forgot the posting. A.
Rod and I have purchased some wonderful colonial doors and a gate from Jesus Torres in El Fuerte. Jesus has still some doors both with and without windows (and shutters). In addition we viewed some beautiful cantera sinks and other stone items. I know there is more stuff but we stopped him at doors as we didn't want to find any more goodies.
Jesus and Francisco are rennovating Jesus' childhood home in El Fuerte as a hotel. It is gorgeous! There are very tasteful rooms with many antiques. There are ponds with ducks. There are ramadas thick with vines and a wonderful wine "cellar" in the restaurant.
The hotel is just opening so I can't vouch for the service but it would be difficult to find a more genuinely friendly and caring host than Jesus Torres nor a more beautiful and peaceful setting only steps from the plaza.
I thought you all might like to know.
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Hal and I have recently picked up some excellent paving cantera and other extraneous antique items from Francisco Torres, friend and owner of the Hotel Torres in El Fuerte, Sinaloa, just down the track from us here in Alamos. Wonderful hotel, btw, with a fantastic chef. Soft beds, great food. Lovely atmosphere. Thought I'd share the info. - Michelee
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#message2260124937177745443021494705042815281492664603 { overflow:auto; visibility:hidden }
I can vouch for Francsico's family's hotel in El Fuerte, we stayed there last year on our way back from the Canyon and it was one of the best experiences we have ever had, the hotel is beautifully decorated and the restaurant is fabulous as was the Torres families personal attention to all details. Saludos Francisco, desde Mazatalan.
Susan y Hector SilvaTravel.
Susan Harp Silva
Jesus Solorzano # 120 Fracc. El Toreo
Mazatlan, Sin. Mexico C.P. 82120
Tel: (669) 983-3769
Fax: (669) 984-7955
Cell: 044-669-116- 5744
E-Mail: mazsilva@prodigy. net.mx and
mazgal711@yahoo. com
birding the copper canyon
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"In spite of its ruggedness, Copper Canyon is a fragile environment... Canyon Travel's [columbus] trips feature resident naturalist guides and exclusive environmentally sound lodges."
"Where Silence Still Reigns" AUDUBON Magazine 10/02
Capture hummingbirds on film in Mexico's Copper Canyon.... One of these places is Hotel Rio Vista.
WILDBIRD Magazine May/June/04
Birding in Two Endemic Areas
BirdLife, the UK conservation group with the world's most complete data on birds, has mapped out 218 endemic bird areas (EBAs). Biodiversity that has evolved and has become uniquely confined into small areas are known as centers of endemism, and they posses not only a variety of endemic birds but also other animals and plants not found anywhere else. The natural habitats in most of the EBAs is tropical lowland forest and montane forest, and Mexico is one of the world's most biodiverse countries with 22 EBAs. There are 7 countries with more than 10 EBAs and only Indonesia and Brazil have more endemic areas.
El Fuerte Sinaloa is in the Northwest Pacific Slope EBA and has a prominence of dry tropical deciduous forest, thorn forest, and the tropical riparian habitat of the Fuerte River. Mexican dry forests have the highest level endemism of all Neotropical dry forests and the Sonoran Desert, just to the north, also harbors an impressive array of unique diversity.
The geographical location where the Sonoran Desert and the Sinaloan forest form a transition of habitats also forms a transition between the Neartic and the Neotropical biomes. This area is now known as the Sonoran-Sinaloan transition tropical dry forest.
The Sierra Madre Occidental EBA is a subtropical coniferous forest with a complex flora. The mountains' biotic communities, descending from the highest elevations, are: fir forest, pine forest with aspen and alder, mixed pine-oak-madrone forest, oak-grasslands and desert grasslands on the Chihuahuan Desert foothills, subtropical deciduous forest on other foothills and on canyon slopes and a cottonwood-willow-cypress riparian habitat at the bottom of the canyons. The sierra has the highest diversity of agave, pine and oak and botanical studies have estimated that the sierra may have up to 3,500 plant species with the discovery of 2,400 species in just one valley. Climatic variations with elevation are best experienced when descending from a snow-clad conifer forest on the canyon rim and in just a few hours arriving at a blooming and fruit laden canyon floor.
Russet-crowned Motmot
Squirrel Cuckoo
-->
Resident Guides with Birding Expertise and Field Knowledge. Avid birders - Identify by song - Exceptional at spotting wildlife
Float the El Fuerte River for more miles than all other floats.
Trek the Urique Canyon riparian habitat, North America's deepest canyon and a forest where Lilac-crowned Parrots feed daily.
Custom designed trips for 8 to 12 birders may include fuly outfitted tent camping to the most pristine natural areas.
"I sensed I had wandered into the house we call ecology, a place that pretends to be carefully mapped but always turns out to be a labyrinth. The structure may have an edge but it seems to have no center. The forest is a question that we will never answer. The birds are screaming along the river, the butterflies pass on unannounced errands, the trees have so many names and shapes, the orchids are hiding up the canyons, safe on the cliff walls."
"This mass of trees is sometimes called the short-tree or dry tropical forest, which lies on the wet side of the thorn forest, a term Howard Scott Gentry, the pioneering botanist of the region, noted 'carries a loose rather than a precise meaning, thus often covering a multitude of sins.' Whatever the sins lurking in the term thorn forest, the same may be said of dry tropical forest. But the place is unmistakable, a wonderful collision of desert, and tropics and sierra, a meeting of biological worlds. Even the untrained eye can sense diverse life forms lapping up against one another. For a biologist, this melding of systems is a fistful of Latin names. For me, it is huge cactus fighting for light against the canopy of the enveloping forest. That is the image that struck me - giant cactus poking green arms up above the trees."
The Secret Forest by Charles Bowden 1993 by the Univ. of New Mexico Press
El Fuerte area birds: Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Common Black Hawk, Gray Hawk, Crested Caracara, Rufous-bellied Chachalaca, Elegant Quail, Mexican Parrotlet, White-fronted Parrot, Squirrel Cuckoo, Lesser Roadrunner, Groove-billed Ani, Colima Pygmy-Owl, Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Broad-billed Hummingbird, Violet-crowned Hummingbird, Plain-capped Starthroat, Elegant Trogon, Russet-crowned Motmot, Golden-cheeked Woodpecker, Grey-crowned Woodpecker, Grey-collared Becard, Masked Tityra, Social Flycatcher, Black-throated Magpie Jay, Purplish-backed Jay, Sinaloa Crow, Bridled Titmouse, Happy Wren, Sinaloa Wren, Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Rufous-backed Thrush, Aztec Thrush, Blue Mockingbird, Long-billed Thrasher, Grey Vireo, Mangrove Vireo, Rufous-capped Warbler, Fan-tailed Warbler, Euphonia, Red-headed Tanager, Yellow Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting, Varied Bunting, Rufous-capped Brushfinch, Dark-eyed Junco, Black-vented Oriole, Ochre Oriole, Yellow-winged Cacique, etc.
Sierre Madre area birds: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, Zone-tailed Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Prairie Falcon, Band-tailed Pigeon, Thick-billed Parrot, Military Macaw, Lilac-crowned Parrot, Whiskered Screech Owl, White-eared Hummingbird, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Mountain Trogon, Eared Trogon, Acorn Woodpecker, Arizona Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Red-naped Sapsucker, Whitestripped Woodcreeper, Tufted Flycatcher, Steller's Jay, Chihuahua Raven, Mexican Chickadee, American Dipper, Red-faced Warbler, Browned-backed Solitare, Green-striped Brushfinch, Yellow-eyed Junco, etc.
Social
"In spite of its ruggedness, Copper Canyon is a fragile environment... Canyon Travel's [columbus] trips feature resident naturalist guides and exclusive environmentally sound lodges."
"Where Silence Still Reigns" AUDUBON Magazine 10/02
Capture hummingbirds on film in Mexico's Copper Canyon.... One of these places is Hotel Rio Vista.
WILDBIRD Magazine May/June/04
Birding in Two Endemic Areas
BirdLife, the UK conservation group with the world's most complete data on birds, has mapped out 218 endemic bird areas (EBAs). Biodiversity that has evolved and has become uniquely confined into small areas are known as centers of endemism, and they posses not only a variety of endemic birds but also other animals and plants not found anywhere else. The natural habitats in most of the EBAs is tropical lowland forest and montane forest, and Mexico is one of the world's most biodiverse countries with 22 EBAs. There are 7 countries with more than 10 EBAs and only Indonesia and Brazil have more endemic areas.
El Fuerte Sinaloa is in the Northwest Pacific Slope EBA and has a prominence of dry tropical deciduous forest, thorn forest, and the tropical riparian habitat of the Fuerte River. Mexican dry forests have the highest level endemism of all Neotropical dry forests and the Sonoran Desert, just to the north, also harbors an impressive array of unique diversity.
The geographical location where the Sonoran Desert and the Sinaloan forest form a transition of habitats also forms a transition between the Neartic and the Neotropical biomes. This area is now known as the Sonoran-Sinaloan transition tropical dry forest.
The Sierra Madre Occidental EBA is a subtropical coniferous forest with a complex flora. The mountains' biotic communities, descending from the highest elevations, are: fir forest, pine forest with aspen and alder, mixed pine-oak-madrone forest, oak-grasslands and desert grasslands on the Chihuahuan Desert foothills, subtropical deciduous forest on other foothills and on canyon slopes and a cottonwood-willow-cypress riparian habitat at the bottom of the canyons. The sierra has the highest diversity of agave, pine and oak and botanical studies have estimated that the sierra may have up to 3,500 plant species with the discovery of 2,400 species in just one valley. Climatic variations with elevation are best experienced when descending from a snow-clad conifer forest on the canyon rim and in just a few hours arriving at a blooming and fruit laden canyon floor.
Russet-crowned Motmot
Squirrel Cuckoo
-->
Resident Guides with Birding Expertise and Field Knowledge. Avid birders - Identify by song - Exceptional at spotting wildlife
Float the El Fuerte River for more miles than all other floats.
Trek the Urique Canyon riparian habitat, North America's deepest canyon and a forest where Lilac-crowned Parrots feed daily.
Custom designed trips for 8 to 12 birders may include fuly outfitted tent camping to the most pristine natural areas.
"I sensed I had wandered into the house we call ecology, a place that pretends to be carefully mapped but always turns out to be a labyrinth. The structure may have an edge but it seems to have no center. The forest is a question that we will never answer. The birds are screaming along the river, the butterflies pass on unannounced errands, the trees have so many names and shapes, the orchids are hiding up the canyons, safe on the cliff walls."
"This mass of trees is sometimes called the short-tree or dry tropical forest, which lies on the wet side of the thorn forest, a term Howard Scott Gentry, the pioneering botanist of the region, noted 'carries a loose rather than a precise meaning, thus often covering a multitude of sins.' Whatever the sins lurking in the term thorn forest, the same may be said of dry tropical forest. But the place is unmistakable, a wonderful collision of desert, and tropics and sierra, a meeting of biological worlds. Even the untrained eye can sense diverse life forms lapping up against one another. For a biologist, this melding of systems is a fistful of Latin names. For me, it is huge cactus fighting for light against the canopy of the enveloping forest. That is the image that struck me - giant cactus poking green arms up above the trees."
The Secret Forest by Charles Bowden 1993 by the Univ. of New Mexico Press
El Fuerte area birds: Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Common Black Hawk, Gray Hawk, Crested Caracara, Rufous-bellied Chachalaca, Elegant Quail, Mexican Parrotlet, White-fronted Parrot, Squirrel Cuckoo, Lesser Roadrunner, Groove-billed Ani, Colima Pygmy-Owl, Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Broad-billed Hummingbird, Violet-crowned Hummingbird, Plain-capped Starthroat, Elegant Trogon, Russet-crowned Motmot, Golden-cheeked Woodpecker, Grey-crowned Woodpecker, Grey-collared Becard, Masked Tityra, Social Flycatcher, Black-throated Magpie Jay, Purplish-backed Jay, Sinaloa Crow, Bridled Titmouse, Happy Wren, Sinaloa Wren, Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Rufous-backed Thrush, Aztec Thrush, Blue Mockingbird, Long-billed Thrasher, Grey Vireo, Mangrove Vireo, Rufous-capped Warbler, Fan-tailed Warbler, Euphonia, Red-headed Tanager, Yellow Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting, Varied Bunting, Rufous-capped Brushfinch, Dark-eyed Junco, Black-vented Oriole, Ochre Oriole, Yellow-winged Cacique, etc.
Sierre Madre area birds: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, Zone-tailed Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Prairie Falcon, Band-tailed Pigeon, Thick-billed Parrot, Military Macaw, Lilac-crowned Parrot, Whiskered Screech Owl, White-eared Hummingbird, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Mountain Trogon, Eared Trogon, Acorn Woodpecker, Arizona Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Red-naped Sapsucker, Whitestripped Woodcreeper, Tufted Flycatcher, Steller's Jay, Chihuahua Raven, Mexican Chickadee, American Dipper, Red-faced Warbler, Browned-backed Solitare, Green-striped Brushfinch, Yellow-eyed Junco, etc.
Social
lunes, 10 de septiembre de 2007
The Gateway to the Copper Canyon
H O T E L T O R R E S D E L F U E R T E
"relaxed ellegance with a passion for detail!"
Located on a side street near the Plaza de Armas the Hotel Torres del Fuerte is a labor of love.
Owned and operated by the Torres family this 400 year old casona was home to this family for generations prior to being remodeled into a hotel in 2006.
Enjoy your meals in the open air dining patio or in the dining room with it's colonial ambiance. Have happy-hour around the hut bar, sipping on your favorite local beverage enjoying the beautiful gardens.
This special catagory, boutique hacienda hotel & spa, has excellent service and meals and a charm second to none. Take time to enjoy this colonial town....you will love it and the copper canyons
sincerally
Francisco Torres
Hotel Torres Del Fuerte
Rodolfo G. Robles No. 102
El Fuerte Sinaloa
Mexico
http://www.hotelestorres.com/
011 52 642 105 1001
"relaxed ellegance with a passion for detail!"
Located on a side street near the Plaza de Armas the Hotel Torres del Fuerte is a labor of love.
Owned and operated by the Torres family this 400 year old casona was home to this family for generations prior to being remodeled into a hotel in 2006.
Enjoy your meals in the open air dining patio or in the dining room with it's colonial ambiance. Have happy-hour around the hut bar, sipping on your favorite local beverage enjoying the beautiful gardens.
This special catagory, boutique hacienda hotel & spa, has excellent service and meals and a charm second to none. Take time to enjoy this colonial town....you will love it and the copper canyons
sincerally
Francisco Torres
Hotel Torres Del Fuerte
Rodolfo G. Robles No. 102
El Fuerte Sinaloa
Mexico
http://www.hotelestorres.com/
011 52 642 105 1001
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