Matehuala

Matehuala
Municipality an toun
Matehuala Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 23°39′10″N 100°38′40″W
Kintra	Mexico
State	San Luis Potosí
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time)

Matehuala is the fowert-lairgest ceety in the Mexican state o San Luis Potosí. It is locatit at aroond 23°39′10″N 100°38′40″W, at an elevation o aboot 1,500 m. Matehuala is the municipal seat o the municipality o the same name an aw, locatit in the northren pairt o the state, on the border wi the soothwastren corner o Nuevo León. The ceety o Matehuala haed a 2005 census population o 70,150, while its municipality's population wis 82,726. The municipality haes an aurie o 1,286.66 km² (496.78 sq mi).

Notable fowk

• Juan José Ortega - film director an producer (1904–1996)

References

• Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• San Luis Potosí Archived 2007-04-01 at the Wayback Machine Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

Freemit airtins

• Gobierno Municipal de Matehuala Archived 2007-03-22 at the Wayback Machine Official website
• www.portalmatehuala.com Archived 2007-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
• www.matehuala.com.mx
• Pagina Oficial de la Delegación D-II-86 Matehuala Archived 2007-12-15 at the Wayback Machine