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Nuevo León, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León, [b] is a state in northeastern Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas , Coahuila , Zacatecas , and San Luis Potosi , and has an extremely narrow international border with the U.S. state of Texas .
Republic of the Sierra Madre: Nuevo León annexes Coahuila and again announces secession from Mexico. 5 February 1857 1857 Constitution: Nuevo León ceases to exist and becomes part of Coahuila. 26 February 1864 Nuevo León regains status as free state and integral part of the federation. 3 April 1864 Monterrey is declared capital of Nuevo León.
Monterrey (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ə ˈ r eɪ / ⓘ MON-tə-RAY, Spanish: ⓘ) [7] is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico.It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. [5]
Map of Mexico with Nuevo León highlighted. Nuevo León is a state in Northeast Mexico that is divided into 51 municipalities.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the seventh most populated state with 5,784,442 inhabitants and the 13th largest by land area spanning 64,156.2 square kilometres (24,770.8 sq mi).
Born in the Azores in 1547, Captain Alberto del Canto was commissioned by Martin Lopez de Ibarra to make settlements in name of New Vizcaya.Del Canto in 1577 the town of Santiago del Saltillo Minas de la Trinidad (), Minas de San Gregorio and villa de Santa Lucia at the Extremadura Valley and practically just marked a place called Santa Lucia on which today is the center of modern-day Monterrey.
Currently there are 2,462 municipalities in Mexico. Although not formally a state, Mexico City ( Spanish : Ciudad de México ), the capital city of United Mexican States and formerly designed as the Federal District ( Spanish : Distrito Federal ), has been made a separate federative entity that has autonomy on par with the states since a ...
Michael David Snodgrass (1998). "Birth and Consequences of Industrial Paternalism in Monterrey, Mexico, 1890-1940". International Labor and Working-Class History (53): 115– 136. JSTOR 27672459. "Northeast Mexico: Nuevo Leon: Monterrey", Mexico, Let's Go, 1999 (fulltext via OpenLibrary)
Founded as University of Nuevo León on 25 September 1933, it is the third largest public university in Mexico in terms of student population and the most important institution of higher learning in Northeastern Mexico, which offers the highest number of academic programs.