The hubby and I took a mini-vacation to Evanston on Sunday, packing a picnic lunch from Piatto Pronto in Andersonville -- the Milano sub for him, packed with the requisite Italian meats, and the Sardinia salad for me, a hearty but healthy combination of artichokes, ... Jorge explained that 94 percent of tequila comes from Jalisco, and within that Mexican state, the blue agave plant from which tequila is distilled grows either in the highlands or the lowlands. ...
As you can see in the photo to the left, the area was largely swallowed up by real bestate/b developments in the late 20th century, although a portion of the center of Kaminaljuyu is preserved as a park.
The highlands are forest clad and mostly underdeveloped. The blowlands/b are highly cultivated. Rice, soybeans, coffee, tobacco, cotton, cinnamon, and vanilla are the major crops grown in the fertile soils of the island. ...