Celaya

Celaya, a town in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, on the Rio Laja, about 150 miles by rail NW. of the city of Mexico, has several fine plazas, handsome churches, and manufactures of cotton and woolen cloths and saddlery. Population, with district, 28,336. The burning of its bull-ring, on Easter Sunday 1888, caused considerable loss of life.