I am going to tell you the story of this beautiful place, in the year of 1927 due to the problems that existed with the drought, we decided to build the dam, which is named after President Plutarco Elías Calles, this hydraulic work is a distributor of irrigation and storage of water for the Aguascalientes shallow which has the capacity for 340 million cubic meters, supplies 12 thousand hectares and has a maximum height of 63 meters, but due to the geographical conditions it was built on a town called San José de Gracia which was buried by water, even the inhabitants say that part of the water is the tears of the villagers to see their people under water and not only by the mouth of various rivers.
After what happened, only 16 families decided to stay and found the new town of San José de Gracia.
With the aim of giving back to the people the monumental Cristo Roto was built, this work was inaugurated on April 16, 2006 and it was made in a record time of 2 and a half months, it has 24 niches with each of the most representative Christs, the Christ measures 25 meters high plus three base, weighs 20 tons and a half is made of reinforced steel, polyethylene, fiberglass and painted bronze, made by the sculptor aguascalientense Miguel Romo Santini and the sculptor Erasmo Aguilar.
The original story of Cristo Roto is from Seville Spain where a father looking for a Christ for his chapel sees a broken scrap, missing a half leg, an arm, without a cross and with a head but without a face, the salesman asked for three thousand pesetas but the father thinking about repairing it, bargains and agrees eight hundred, already in his chapel the father laments and says -Who did this to you, who dared with you, did not shake the hands of the one who splinters yours by tearing you from the cross- and I hear of a firm voice -Shut up, you who know I already forgive, that worse than mutilating a carved image of mine was to make it alive, I want you to see me think so many who are like me, broken, destitute, oppressed and mutilated, because they have closed doors and without cross because they have lost the honor and have forgotten them by turning their backs on them- the father did not restore it and stayed that way.
It is worth mentioning that the one in Seville has no face and the one in San José de Gracia, since it was very impressive, I invite you to meet him and spend a very familiar day like I did, admiring this town because to get to Cristo Roto you have to do it in small boats that the locals offer,