Oct 102009
Site of a famous flood, which in 1888 almost washed the city away. Leon, on the main Railroad line between El Paso, Texas and Mexico city, and on Mexico Highways 37 and 45, is a commercial, agricultural, and mining center and one of Mexico’s leading leather working and shoemaking cities.
The local mines yield gold, copper, silver, lead, and tin.
Leon was officially founded in 1577. Formerly called Leon de los Aldama.
