San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí

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.

Sister ceeties
San Luis Potosí haes the follaein sister ceeties in Mexico an abroad :
 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

Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005  INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
San Luis Potosí  Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

Freemit airtins

Ceety o San Luis Potosí Spaingie
Plan o San Luis Potosí  Inglis
Kirks o San Luis Potosí  Spaingie

Category:Caipitals o states o Mexico
Category:Municipalities o San Luis Potosí
Category:Populatit places in San Luis Potosí
Category:Populatit places established in 1592