{"id":5613,"date":"2018-11-25T22:32:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T04:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitpatzcuaro.com\/?page_id=5613"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:26:19","slug":"creditos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/villapatzcuaro.com\/visitpatzcuaro\/en\/creditos\/","title":{"rendered":"Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Authorship and collaborations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Original concept and text of P\u00e1tzcuaro en Breve<\/em>:<\/strong> Arturo Pimentel Ramos (1929\u20132002)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From P\u00e1tzcuaro en Breve<\/em> to Visit P\u00e1tzcuaro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Visit P\u00e1tzcuaro has a history that predates the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its origins lie in P\u00e1tzcuaro en Breve<\/em><\/strong>, the printed guide by Arturo Pimentel Ramos (1929\u20132002)<\/strong>, written to share with travelers and readers what he had learned, explored, and gathered over a lifetime in P\u00e1tzcuaro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That guide provided not only an important part of the texts and memory preserved by this project. It also shaped the way the territory was organized and connected: the original architecture of Visit P\u00e1tzcuaro and many of its categories grew out of that printed structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arturo Pimentel Ramos had been a licensed tour guide since at least 1961. During the 1960s, he headed the P\u00e1tzcuaro office of Mexico\u2019s federal Department of Tourism as a subdelegate, a role equivalent in function to that of today\u2019s regional tourism delegate, and served as secretary of the Patronato contra el Lirio Acu\u00e1tico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had gained experience in the hotel industry in the United States and, after returning to P\u00e1tzcuaro with his wife, Obdulia Mart\u00ednez Escobar<\/strong>, founded Motel P\u00e1tzcuaro, now Villa P\u00e1tzcuaro<\/strong>. He later served as president of the P\u00e1tzcuaro Hotel and Motel Association<\/strong> and took an active part in the development of tourism in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That experience also helps explain the perspective behind the original guide: knowing P\u00e1tzcuaro was not simply a matter of pointing out places, but of explaining the territory to those who arrived, helping them explore it, and preserving what deserved to be remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, P\u00e1tzcuaro en Breve<\/em><\/strong> began its transition to the digital environment. The project first operated as patzcuaroenbreve.com<\/strong> and later, when visitpatzcuaro.com<\/strong> became available, evolved into Visit P\u00e1tzcuaro. In that process, the original material was expanded and corrected; research, new sources, places, routes, and tools for travelers were added, while seeking to preserve the provenance of what had been inherited and to distinguish between documented history, memory, oral tradition, and information that changes over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit P\u00e1tzcuaro is therefore both a guide in continuity and a work of stewardship: it preserves an earlier perspective, revises it when the evidence requires, and continues exploring the territory in order to understand it better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also a living tribute to Arturo Pimentel Ramos and to everyone who has helped build, review, and preserve this memory.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Visual identity<\/h2>\n\n\n
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The Visit P\u00e1tzcuaro symbol begins with a simple idea: a territory cannot be understood as a collection of isolated places, but through the relationships that connect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its forms speak of territory, encounter, and life. They do not literally represent a map, a lake, a building, or a monument; they express a way of seeing the region, in which different parts acquire meaning through their relationships with one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acknowledgments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation and support of Enrique Soto Gonz\u00e1lez (\u2020), chronicler of P\u00e1tzcuaro<\/strong>, and Rafaela Luft D\u00e1valos, a specialist in conservation and restoration<\/strong>, who helped review and correct some of the historical information included in this guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also thank Anne G. Harpe of Micro\u2022Pix Graphics, in Austin, Texas<\/strong>, for her invaluable help in reviewing and correcting the English translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover the projects alongside Visit P\u00e1tzcuaro \u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources and bibliography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • P\u00e1tzcuaro en Breve<\/em> \u2014 Arturo Pimentel Ramos.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • P\u00e1tzcuaro<\/em> \u2014 Manuel Toussaint. Facsimile edition, Government of the State of Michoac\u00e1n, 1992.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Cat\u00e1logo de Monumentos y Sitios de la Regi\u00f3n Lacustre<\/em>, Volume I \u2014 Esperanza Ram\u00edrez Romero. Government of the State of Michoac\u00e1n \/ Universidad Michoacana de San Nicol\u00e1s de Hidalgo, 1986.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Enciclopedia Salvat<\/em> \u2014 Salvat Editores, Spain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • La Voz de Michoac\u00e1n.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • El Sol de Morelia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Cantera Hoy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Michoac\u00e1n Hist\u00f3rico.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Instituto Nacional de Antropolog\u00eda e Historia (INAH).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    This page is dedicated to the presence of Obdulia Mart\u00ednez Escobar, wife and mother whose encouragement helped move the project forward<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    and to the memory of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Arturo Pimentel Ramos (1929 – 2002)  <\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>

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    Hern\u00e1n Pimentel Mart\u00ednez (1972 – 2023<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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