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Go to Batopilas!!! If you`re budget, stay at Hotel Batopilas ($80 pesos per person) with the lovely Doña Tina, eat at Velia`s (also known as Doña Mica`s, the one on the left-hand side of the second plaza with a yellow gate) for dinner and Quinto Patio (down the callejòn towards the river across from the church) for antojitos and snacks. Take guide Arturo Águilar ($50 pesos per person plus tip, wear shoes and bring a flashlight) to the San Miguel mine at night to see the bats and the un-exploited silver veins in the rocks. Go to the little free museum in Batopilas. Go to Satevó to the cathedral. Enjoy the 5-plus hour trip down, stopping to take pictures, drink a beer and eat a burrito at a roadside stand. It´s shorter coming back up, leaving at 5am, but you get to catch the sunrise over the mountains as you wind towards Creel again. I was only there two nights, but I loved Batopilas and would recommend it highly to anyone going through the Barranca de Cobre. I will be back!

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