Central Mexico Highlands / Morelia - Fuente Tarasca

Photo by Jeff Robbins, S/V Vesper
September 2002

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Morelia - Fuente Tarasca

This fountain honors the local indigenous people, called the Tarascan. The fountain shows topless women holding a large basket of fruit and mysteriously disappeared in 1940. Maybe somebody objected to their nakeness? It was replaced in 1960.