‘Mexico Cities’ Archives
City of Mexico Salamanca
Chiefly an oil-refining center, it also serves as the commercial and distribution point for the surrounding agricultural region. The first important battle between liberals and conservatives in the 19th-century War of the Reform was fought here.
City of Mexico Real de Catorce
Situated in fabulously rich mining region, it once produced silver and antimony; also gold, lead, and copper deposits. Once a city of nearly 40,000 people, now nearly a ghost town. A popular tourist stop. Sometimes called Catorce.
City of Mexico Calvillo
Located on the west side of the state, Calvillo was a settlement of Nahua Indians of San José Huejúcar, and it means "Place of Willows." José Calvillo, owner of the Hacienda of San Nicolás, donated the land for the town's founding, which was done by the governor of Guadalajara, Manuel Colón de Larreategui on November 18, 1771. Famous for [...]
City of Mexico Leon
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 [...]
City of Mexico Celestun
Minor port on narrow bar off Northwestern Yucatan Peninsula. Henequen growing, fishing. Nearby is the Parque Natural del Flamenco Mexicano , biological reserve. There is a surrounding wildlife refuge for a large colony of flamingos. They are most visible from September through March when they are nesting. There are also herons, egrets, [...]
City of Mexico Monterrey
The third-largest city of Mexico, Monterrey is the Railroad and highway hub of NE Mexico. It is also Mexico's second-most important industrial center. The site of the nation's largest iron and steel foundries and a major producer of cement. Monterrey's modern industrial complex also includes a wide range of light manufacturing (including glass and [...]
City of Mexico Pachuca
Pachuca, one of Mexico's oldest and most famous mining towns, was founded in 1534 on the site of an ancient Toltec city. The region is extremely rich in ore deposits, especially silver, which has been mined since Aztec times. Pachuca is also a cultural and educational center, with a university, a meteorological observatory, and a noted school [...]
City of Mexico Tampico
Rivaling Veracruz as Mexico's most important seaport, Tampico is used primarily for Mexico's petroleum industry and fishing. It possesses excellent modern facilities and also serves as an export center for Tamaulipas's other goods, including cattle, hides, sugar, and additional agricultural products. In pre-Columbian times, the Tampico area [...]
City of Mexico Tehuacan
Called Carlsbad of Mexico because of famed mineral springs. Has old colonial churches.
City of Mexico Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo is the Northern terminus of the national Railroad and the Inter-Americas Highway, as well as an important point of entry for U.S. tourists driving to Mexico. It is also a center of international trade and the distribution point for an agricultural (mainly cotton) and livestock-raising area; commerce; tourism industry. Nuevo Laredo [...]
