During 2021 Hidalgo tallied a murder rate of 7.8 per 100,000 residents, a level of violence that is around a third as high as the murder rate of 25.8 for Mexico as a whole.

Dolores Hidalgo is ranked #8 out of 16 things to do in San Miguel de Allende. ... He and his followers launched a rebellion, marching across Mexico in the following months.

Commonly confused with Cinco de Mayo in the U.S., this holiday celebrates the moment when Father Hidalgo called for Mexico's independence from Spain in September 1810.