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La Barca de Oro

Mexico / Veracruz /
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This is a Concrete and Steel Boat that was an idea of a lunatic, who belived that he can reinvent the boat industrie by making concrete boats, much cheaper than steel, but he forgot something concrete is porous, so inmediatly she went down in the dock, so the people of Veracruz christened La Barca de Oro (The Gold Boat), because it suck dry all of the inventor's money leaving him in poverty.
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Coordinates:   19°10'27"N   96°5'36"W
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