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Colombian pop star Shakira performed in Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City Mexico City
 Spanish Ciudad de México

City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi
 in several highly anticipated dates in February, generating a media buzz generally reserved for visiting heads of state.

The new sensation topped off her five-date Mongoose mongoose, name for a large number of small, carnivorous, terrestrial Old World mammals of the civet family. They are found in S Asia and in Africa, with one species extending into S Spain.  Tour in the capital, and some 100,000 fans filled the Foro Sol The venue was originally built just to be a place where to receive big music shows, which can accommodate up to 50,000 people. Since 2000, it has been used as a baseball stadium as well, because the only other major baseball stadium in Mexico City (Parque del Seguro Social  on Feb. 14 and 15. Guadalajara and Monterrey also sold out three dates prior to Shakira's D.F. engagements. Tickets cost between 150 and 2,000 pesos.

Her visage--and more often than not, her midriff--graced the covers of front pages and filled the lifestyle sections of the nation's leading newspapers. Billboards in which she peddled a soft drink lined the main thoroughfares of the capital, and the South American sex symbol bore a frightening resemblance to that scourge of modem music, Britney Spears.

Details of her visit included what she orderes from room service at her Monterrey hotel (bananas, papaya papaya (pəpī`ə), soft-stemmed tree (Carica papaya) of tropical America resembling a palm with a crown of palmately lobed leaves.  and mango) to photos of her arrival at the Toluca airport in the State of Mexico The State of México (often abbreviated to "Edomex" from Estado de México in Spanish) is a state in the center of the nation of Mexico. The State's capital is the city of Toluca. .
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Title Annotation:pop star Shakira
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Date:Mar 1, 2003
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