page_title: San Juan del Río
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: San Juan del Río / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Español: Panoramica de San Juan del rio desde el Cerro de la Venta
context_page_description: San Juan del Río is a city and administration of the surrounding San Juan del Río Municipality in the central Mexican state of Querétaro. The population in for the municipality is 217,980, as of July, 2007.
  The city and its municipality have the second-highest population in the state. The municipality has an area of 799.9 km².
  The city is located on country's central plateau, 50 km southeast of state capital, Santiago de Querétaro, at 20°23′N 99°59′W with an elevation of 1922 m. Although famous for its opals, mined at nearby La Trinidad, it is also an agricultural center. A number of wineries are also located in the vicinity.
  San Juan del Río is connected to Santiago de Querétaro and Mexico City by the mainline freight railway and Federal Highway 57.
context_section_description: The city is located in a central sedimentary valley of a rich agricultural area with abundant underground streams of hot springs of about 37.5 O.
  The valley of San Juan is surrounded by the mountains of La Llave (2,450 [msnm]) of Xajay (2,750 meters above sea level) of Scholastics (2,800 meters above sea level) and Jingó (2,500 meters above sea level).
  The San Juan River, whose sources are located in the State of Mexico, is the mainstream of the municipality and the state. This river, when leaving the municipality of Tequisquiapan, already with the name of Río Moctezuma forms the natural boundary between the states of Querétaro and Hidalgo and already flows as Rio Pánuco into the Golfo de México in the port of Tampico.
caption: Partial view of the city from the hill of sale
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