|— City & Municipality —| |• Municipal President| |•
Municipality||71.56 km2 (27.63 sq mi)| |Elevationof seat||2,000
m (6,600 ft)| |Time zone||CST (UTC−6)| |• Summer (DST)||CDT
(UTC−5)| |Postal code (of seat)||36000| |Official name: Historic
Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines| |Criteria:||I, II, IV,
VI| |Designated:||1988 (12th session)| |Region:||Latin America
and the Caribbean| Guanajuato is a city and municipality in
central Mexico and the capital of the state of the same name. It
is located in a narrow valley, which makes the streets of the
city narrow and winding. Most are alleys that cars cannot pass
through, and some are long sets of stairs up the mountainsides.
Many of the city’s thoroughfares are partially or fully
underground. The historic center of the city has numerous small
plazas and colonial-era mansions, churches and civil
constructions built using pink or green sandstone. The origin
and growth of the city resulted from the discovery of mines in
the mountains surrounding it. The mines were