Short answers, pulled from the story.
The city of Santiago de Querétaro was founded on the 25th of July 1531 by Spanish soldier Hernán Pérez Bocanegra y Córdoba. He arrived at a hill called Sangremal with an Otomi leader named Conín to establish the settlement.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez was the wife of the mayor of Querétaro who gathered intelligence for the nascent insurgency from her home known as the Palace of the Corregidora. She warned Miguel Hidalgo about the Conspiracy of 1810 after Epigmenio González was arrested on the 13th of September 1810, allowing Hidalgo to issue his famous grito from Dolores.
The enormous aqueduct of Querétaro consists of seventy-four arches each twenty meters wide with a total extension of 1,280 meters. It was built by Marquis Juan Antonio de Urrutia y Arana between 1726 and 1738 at the request of nuns of the Santa Clara Convent.
The city bases its economy on IT and data centers logistics services aircraft manufacturing maintenance call centers automotive machinery chemical production and food products. Major international corporations headquartered or operating within the region include Bombardier Aerospace Samsung Electronics Daewoo Colgate-Palmolive Siemens Mexico and Nestlé among many others.
Santiago de Querétaro sits at an altitude varying from 1,900 to 2,460 meters above sea level with the city proper lying on a plain at 1,900 meters. The territory has a semi-arid climate with mild temperatures year round although average high temperature in May reaches specific levels and most precipitation falls from June to August.