San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí | |
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Ceety & Municipality | |
Eik-name(s): La Ciudad de los Jardínes (Ceety o Gardens) | |
![]() Location o San Luis Potosí in central-north Mexico | |
Country | Mexico |
State | San Luis Potosí |
Foondit | 3 November 1592 |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor | Luis Miguel Ávalos Oyervides |
Area | |
• Municipality | 385 km2 (149 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1,850 m (6,070 ft) |
Population (2010) | |
• Municipality | 685,934 |
• Metro | 1,040,822 |
• Demonym | Potosino (a) |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
Website | http://www.ayuntamientoslp.gob.mx |
San Luis Potosí, commonly cried SLP or simply San Luis, is the caipital o, and maist populous ceety in the Mexican state o San Luis Potosí. The ceety lee's at an elevation o 1,850 meters (6,070 feet). It haes an estimatit population o 735,886 inhabitants in the ceety proper, an a population o approximately 1,021,688 in its metropolitan aurie which is formit wi the neebour ceety o Soledad an some ither sma tounships inside the urban aurie. This maks the metropolitan aurie o Greater San Luis Potosí the tent lairgest in Mexico.
The ceety o San Luis Potosí is locatit in the wast-central pairt o the state o San Luis Potosí, at 22.16°N, 100.98°W. The municipality haes an aurie o 1,443.14 km² (557.2 sq mi).
The ceety is namit efter Louis IX o Fraunce (kent in Mexico as San Luis Rey de Francia an aw; Saunt Louis, Keeng o Fraunce), who is the ceety's patron saunt. Potosí wis addit in reference tae the fabulously rich mines o Potosí, Bolivie, discovered some fowerty years afore the ceety wis foondit, as the exploitation o siller an gowd mines in Cerro de San Pedro near San Luis wis the main raison for the foondin o the ceety in 1592.[1]
Sister ceeties[eedit | eedit soorce]
San Luis Potosí haes the follaein sister ceeties in Mexico an abroad[2] :
Tulsa, Unitit States
Pico Rivera, Unitit States
St. Louis, Unitit States
Pharr, Unitit States
Almadén, Spain
Santander, Spain
Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Spain
Potosí, Bolivie
Guadalajara, Mexico
Aguascalientes, Mexico
Guadalupe, Mexico
Zacatecas, Mexico
Zapotlán el Grande, Mexico
Idrija, Slovenie
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Historia de la Ciudad". Archived frae the original on 23 November 2010. Retrieved 15 Mairch 2011.
- ↑ "Ciudades Hermanas de San Luis Potosí". Archived frae the original on 25 Mey 2012. Retrieved 15 Mairch 2011.
- 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[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Ceety o San Luis Potosí Spaingie
- Plan o San Luis Potosí Archived 2010-01-24 at the Wayback Machine Inglis
- Kirks o San Luis Potosí Archived 2010-05-18 at the Wayback Machine Spaingie