El Bajio, Mexico 🇲🇽 Gringo’s Guide

Highly, highly underrated region...

Guest post by esteemed LatAm scholar: @GringoGuerrilla

If you’re fond of perfect climates, low costs of living, rich history, and colonial architecture, allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite regions of Mexico: El Bajio!

For those unfamiliar, El Bajio – which simply means “The Lowlands” – refers to a particular geographical zone of Central Mexico. 

It’s somewhat loosely defined. If you search the Bajio on Google, you’ll get mixed results regarding where exactly it covers and what states are part of it.

That said, it more-or-less encompasses the following states:

• Aguascalientes

• Guanajuato

• Jalisco

• Querétaro

• Michoacán

• San Luis Potosí

• Zacatecas

And here are some of its notable cities: 

• Guadalajara, Jalisco

• León, Guanajuato

• Querétaro, Querétaro

• San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí

• Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes

• Morelia, Michoacán

• Zacatecas, Zacatecas

• Guanajuato, Guanajuato

Let’s talk about what makes this one of Mexico’s most underrated regions, shall we?

P.S. This guide will NOT cover Guadalajara. That city is so large it deserves an entire guide of its own!