Northern Mexico
Nuevo León
Monterrey Municipality

Monterrey

Monterrey is the third largest city in and the capital of the state of . It is the commercial, industrial, educational, and transportation hub of northern Mexico, also third in economic importance after and .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Centro and Eastern suburbs.

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is the central downtown area of Monterrey. It includes popular tourist areas like the Macroplaza and Barrio Antiguo. For the purposes of this district article, it is bounded by Ruiz Cortines on the north, Churubusco on the east, Carranza on the west, and the Santa Catarina River to the south.

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The of Monterrey include a number of municipalities, the largest of which are Guadalupe and San Nicolas de los Garza. Monterrey's international airport is in the eastern suburb of Apodaca, which has seen tremendous development in the early 21st century, making it one of the fastest growing parts of Monterrey.

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The of Monterrey consist of two municipalities - San Pedro Garza Garcia and Santa Catarina. San Pedro Garza Garcia is the wealthiest part of Monterrey, consisting of elegant neighborhoods, glitzy upscale shopping centers, towering high rise buildings and myriad restaurants and international hotels.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Outer Monterrey.

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refers to the parts of the city of Monterrey beyond the district. This is a very large area and includes areas north and west of el Centro and areas to the south and east of el Centro.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey and Mexican History Museum, Monterrey.

Museum
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, abbreviated as MARCO, is a major contemporary art museum, located in the city of Monterrey, in state of northeastern .

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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cerro del Obispado.

Locality
The is a famous landmark in the city of Monterrey, , named after the building constructed in the middle of the slope by the end of the 18th century.

Monterrey

Latitude
25.6802° or 25° 40′ 49″ north
Longitude
-100.3153° or 100° 18′ 55″ west
Population
1,140,000
Elevation
560 metres (1,837 feet)
IATA airport code
MTY
United Nations Location Code
MX MTY
Open location code
75QXMMJM+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4145210488
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3995465
Wiki­data ID
Q81033
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Monterrey” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Monterrey”
  • Arabic: “مونتيري ، المكسيك”
  • Arabic: “مونتيري”
  • Aragonese: “Monterrey”
  • Armenian: “Մոնտեռեյ (Մեքսիկա)”
  • Armenian: “Մոնտեռեյ”
  • Armenian: “Մոնտերեյ”
  • Asturian: “Monterrey”
  • Avaric: “Монтеррей (Мексика)”
  • Avaric: “Монтеррей”
  • Aymara: “Monterrey”
  • Azerbaijani: “Monterrey”
  • Balinese: “Monterrey”
  • Basque: “Monterrey”
  • Bavarian: “Monterrey”
  • Belarusian: “Мантэрэй”
  • Bengali: “মোন্তেররেই”
  • Breton: “Monterrey”
  • Bulgarian: “Монтерей”
  • Catalan: “Monterrey”
  • Cebuano: “Monterrey”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆنتەری”
  • Chechen: “Монтеррей”
  • Cheyenne: “Monterrey”
  • Chinese: “Monterrey”
  • Chinese: “蒙特瑞”
  • Chinese: “蒙特雷”
  • Chinese: “蒙特雷大都市区”
  • Chinese: “蒙特雷市”
  • Corsican: “Monterrey”
  • Croatian: “Monterrey”
  • Czech: “Monterrey”
  • Danish: “Monterrey”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Monterrey”
  • Dutch: “Monterrey”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه مونتيرى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مونتيرى”
  • Esperanto: “Monterejo”
  • Esperanto: “Monterrey”
  • Estonian: “Monterrey”
  • Extremaduran: “Monterrey”
  • Fijian: “Monterei”
  • Finnish: “Monterrey”
  • French: “La ciudad de las montañas”
  • French: “La sultana del norte”
  • French: “Monterrey NL”
  • French: “Monterrey”
  • Galician: “Monterrei, México”
  • Galician: “Monterrei”
  • Galician: “Monterrey”
  • Georgian: “მონტერეი”
  • German: “Monterrey”
  • Greek: “Μοντερέι”
  • Greek: “Μοντερρέι”
  • Guarani: “Monterrey”
  • Gujarati: “મોન્ટેરે”
  • Haitian: “Monterrey”
  • Hebrew: “מונטריי”
  • Hindi: “मोंटेरे”
  • Hungarian: “Monterrey”
  • Icelandic: “Monterrey”
  • Iloko: “Monterrey”
  • Indonesian: “Monterrey, Nuevo León”
  • Indonesian: “Monterrey”
  • Interlingua: “Monterrey”
  • Interlingue: “Monterrey”
  • Irish: “Monterrey”
  • Italian: “La ciudad de las montañas”
  • Italian: “La sultana del norte”
  • Italian: “Monterrey”
  • Japanese: “Monterrey”
  • Japanese: “モンテレー”
  • Japanese: “モンテレイ”
  • Kabyle: “Monterrey”
  • Kalaallisut: “Monterrey”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಂಟೆರ್ರಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Монтеррей”
  • Korean: “몬테레이”
  • Ladino: “Monterrey”
  • Latin: “Mons Regis”
  • Latin: “Monterrey”
  • Latvian: “Montereja”
  • Latvian: “Monterreja”
  • Latvian: “Monterrey”
  • Lithuanian: “Monterėjus”
  • Lombard: “Monterrey”
  • Malagasy: “Monterrey”
  • Malay: “Monterrey”
  • Malayalam: “മോൺടെറി”
  • Maltese: “Monterrey”
  • Marathi: “माँटेरे”
  • Marathi: “माँतेरे”
  • Marathi: “मोन्तेरे”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Monterrey”
  • Mingrelian: “მონტერეი”
  • Moksha: “Монтэррэй”
  • Moksha: “Монтэ‎ррэ‎й”
  • Nepali: “मोन्टेर्रे”
  • Northern Frisian: “Monterrey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monterrey”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monterrey i Nuevo León”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monterrey”
  • Norwegian: “Monterrey”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Monterrey”
  • Ossetian: “Монтеррей”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਂਤੇਰੇਈ”
  • Persian: “مونترری٬ نوئوو لئون”
  • Persian: “مونترری”
  • Persian: “مونتری”
  • Polish: “Monterrey”
  • Portuguese: “Monterrei”
  • Portuguese: “Monterrey”
  • Quechua: “Monterrey”
  • Romanian: “Monterrey, Nuevo Leon”
  • Romanian: “Monterrey, Nuevo León”
  • Romanian: “Monterrey”
  • Russian: “Монтеррей”
  • Scots: “Monterrey”
  • Serbian: “Monterrey”
  • Serbian: “Монтереј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monterej”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monterrey”
  • Sicilian: “Monterrey”
  • Silesian: “Monterrey”
  • Sinhala: “මොන්ටෙරි”
  • Slovak: “Monterrey”
  • Slovenian: “Monterrey”
  • Spanish: “Monterrey City”
  • Spanish: “Monterrey”
  • Swahili: “Monterrey, Nuevo León”
  • Swahili: “Monterrey”
  • Swedish: “Monterrey”
  • Tagalog: “Monterrey”
  • Talysh: “Monterrej”
  • Talysh: “Monterrey”
  • Tamil: “மாந்தர்ரே”
  • Tamil: “மொன்டெர்ட்ரெய்”
  • Tatar: “Монтеррей”
  • Telugu: “మాంటెర్రె”
  • Thai: “Monterrey”
  • Thai: “มอนเตรเรย์”
  • Thai: “มอนเตร์เรย์”
  • Thai: “มอนเตอร์เรย์”
  • Tibetan: “མཱོན་ཊི་རེ།”
  • Turkish: “Monterrey”
  • Twi: “Monterrey”
  • Ukrainian: “Монтерей”
  • Ukrainian: “Монтеррей”
  • Urdu: “مونترئی”
  • Urdu: “مونتےرئی”
  • Uzbek: “Monterrey”
  • Venetian: “Monterrey”
  • Veps: “Monterrei”
  • Vietnamese: “Monterrey, Nuevo León”
  • Vietnamese: “Monterrey”
  • Volapük: “Monterrey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Monterrey”
  • Welsh: “Monterrey”
  • Wu Chinese: “蒙特雷”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒙特雷”
  • “Monterrey”
  • “Monterrey, Nuevo León”

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