Everything about San Luis Potosi totally explained
» San Luis Potosí is the name of both a state in Mexico and that state's capital city. This article is about the state. For the city, see
San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí.
The
Mexican state of
San Luis Potosí has an area of .
It is in the north-central part of the Mexican republic, bordered by the states of
Jalisco,
Guanajuato,
Querétaro,
Hidalgo,
Veracruz,
Tamaulipas,
Nuevo León,
Coahuila, and
Zacatecas.
At the
2005 census the population was 1,410,414. The largest University in the State is the
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP).
The native peoples of the state include the
Huastecs and
Pame people.
In addition to the state capital
San Luis Potosí, the state's largest cities include
Ciudad Valles,
Matehuala, and
Rioverde.
The state is at the center of an international ecological scandal, facing the illegal operation of
Minera San Xavier, a subsidiary of
Metallica Resources at the town of its foundation,
Cerro de San Pedro, just 20 kilometers away from the capital of the state, with a known poisonous technique banned in first world countries,
open pit mining leaching by
cyanide.
Geography
San Luis Potosí is bounded on the north by Coahuila, on the east by Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, on the south by Hidalgo, Querétaro and Guanajuato, and on the west by Zacatecas.
The state lies mostly on the
Mexican Plateau, with the exception of the southeastern corner of the state, where the tableland breaks down into the tropical valley of the
Panuco River. The surface of the plateau is comparatively level, with some low mountainous wooded ridges. The
Sierra Madre Oriental runs north and south through the state, and separates the Mexican Plateau from the Gulf Coastal Plain to the east. The Sierra Madre Oriental is home to the
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests. The Panuco River originates on the Plateau, and flows eastward through a gap in the Sierra Madre to drain into the Gulf of Mexico. The easternmost portion of the state lies on the Gulf Coastal Plain, and covered by the
Veracruz moist forests.
The Panuco and its tributaries drain the southern and southeastern portion of the state. The northern and central portion of the state, including the capital, lie on an
interior drainage basin which doesn't drain to the sea.
The mean elevation is about 6000 ft., insuring a temperate climate. The state lies partly within the arid zone of the north, the southern half receiving a more liberal rainfall through the influence of the "northers" on the Gulf coast. The rainfall, however, is uncertain and much of the state is poorly provided with rivers. The soil is fertile and in favourable seasons large crops of wheat, maize, beans and cotton are grown on the uplands. In the low tropical valleys, sugar, coffee, tobacco, peppers and fruit are staple products. Stockraising is an important industry and hides, tallow and wool are exported. Fine cabinet and construction woods are also exported to a limited extent.
At one time San Luis Potosi ranked among the leading
mining provinces of Mexico, but the disorders following independence resulted in a great decline in that industry. The area around
Real de Catorce has some of the richest
silver mines in the country. Other well-known silver mining districts are
Peñón Blanco,
Ramos and
Guadalcázar. The development of Guadalcazar dates from 1620 and its ores yield
gold,
copper,
zinc and
bismuth, as well as silver. In the Ramos district, the Cocinera lode was said to have a total yield of over $60,000,000 in the first decade of the 20th Century.
Municipalities
The State of San Luis Potosí is divided into 58
municipalities (
Spanish:
municipios), each headed by a
municipal president (mayor).
Major communities
Governors
The current governor is
Marcelo de los Santos Fraga (2003-2009) of the PAN party (
Partido Accion Nacional).
Industry
General Motors now has a plant under construction,
San Luis Potosí Assembly, to employ up to 1800 and assembly up to 160,000 vehicles per year.
Famous People
Arts and Sciences
Jesús Silva Herzog - Economist and member of the National College of Mexico, father of Jesús Silva Herzog Flores
Francisco González Bocanegra - Author of the Mexican National Anthem
Manuel Jose Othón - Poet
Edward James
Jorge Carrillo m.d.
Journalists
Julio Hernández López - Columnist of La Jornada
Jesús Blancornelas - Founder of Zeta
Politics
Ponciano Arriaga
Miguel Barragán - President of Mexico
Carlos Jongitud Barrios
Gonzalo Martínez Corbala - Ambassador to Chile during the Coup
Luis Ernesto Derbez
Alfonso Lastras Ramirez
Salvador Nava Martínez
Francisco Xavier Salazar Saenz
Antonio Rocha Cordero
Gonzalo N. Santos
Samuel Del Villar
Sports
Jorge Goeters, NASCAR driver
Nery Castillo, Professional football (soccer) player. He was born in San Luis Potosi and moved out when he was 3 months old)
Mil Mascaras (Thousand Masks), Professional Wrestler
San Luis has two professional football (soccer) teams: Santos and Gladiadores
Entertainment
Ana Bárbara, famous singer in the Latin community, born and raised in San Luis Potosí
Carlos Amador
Lupe Vélez, Hollywood actress
Jose Sosa, famous musicianFurther Information
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