San Luis Potosi
San Luis Potosí is a state in the Bajío, in Central Mexico. The state lies mostly on the Mexican Plateau, with the eastern part descending into the tropical valley of the Tampaon River.Photo: ARMONISTA18A13, CC0.
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Top destinations include San Luis Potosi and Real de Catorce.
San Luis Potosi
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San Luis Potosí is the state capital of the San Luis Potosí state in the Bajío in Mexico. Its position along the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, one of the "royal" roads that led all the way up to Santa Fe, New Mexico, has given the city UNESCO World Heritage status.
Real de Catorce
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Real de Catorce is a ghost town in San Luis Potosí. The former silver mining boom town has lost over 90% of its population since its heyday in the late 19th century, and only about 1,400 residents remain.
Ciudad Valles
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Ciudad Valles is a city in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. It is near the Sierra del Abra Tanchipa, a biosphere reserve natural area. Ecological tourism is practiced in the region.
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Central Plateau
Altiplano is in San Luis Potosí. The Altiplano is a high desert with high mountain ranges and a moderate climate although it can have snowstorms in the winter. It boasts some of the most diverse varieties of cacti found anywhere.
Huasteca Potosina
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Huasteca Potosina is in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The Huasteca Potosina is part of the region called "la Huasteca" which includes parts of neighboring states.
Ciudad del Maíz
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Ciudad del Maíz is a town of a little more than 10,000 people in the northern state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The town is one of Mexico's designated Pueblos Mágicos.
Aquismón
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Aquismón is a small town in the Huasteca area of eastern San Luis Potosi. It is a town with strong cultural traditions and a gateway to some of the most scenic natural wonders of the Huasteca region.
Santa María del Río
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Santa María del Río is a town in San Luis Potosi. It calls itself the cradle of the rebozo, staking a claim to one of Mexico's most well known textile handcrafts.
Tierra Nueva
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Tierra Nueva is a charming small town in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. It is a popular place for outdoors activities, particularly sport fishing. It is known for making light palmero hats. Tierra Nueva is one of Mexico's designated Pueblos Mágicos.
El Gogorron National Park
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El Gogorron National Park is a national park in the Bajio state of San Luis Potosi. It preserves an area of mountains known as the Sierra San Miguelito, which is a sub-range of the Sierra Madre Oriental.
San Luis Potosi
- Type: State with 2,820,000 residents
- Description: state of Mexico
- Also known as: “S.L.P.” and “San Luis Potosí”
- Neighbors: Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Querétaro, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Zacatecas
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Bajío, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
22.5° or 22° 30′ northLongitude of center
-100.4949° or 100° 29′ 42″ westPopulation
2,820,000Elevation
1,638 metres (5,374 feet)Abbreviation
“SLP”OpenStreetMap ID
node 305626619OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3985605Wikidata ID
Q78980
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“San Luis Potosi” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሳን ሉዊስ ፖቶሲ”
- Arabic: “ولاية سان لويس بوتوسي”
- Arabic: “ولايه سان لويس بوتوسي”
- Aragonese: “San Luis Potosí”
- Armenian: “Սան Լուիս Պոտոսի”
- Armenian: “Սան Լուիս Պոտոսիի ազատ և ինքնիշխան նահանգ”
- Armenian: “Սան Լուիս”
- Asturian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Aymara: “San Luis Potosí Istadu”
- Azerbaijani: “San Luis Potosi”
- Balinese: “San Luis Potosí”
- Basque: “San Luis Potosi”
- Basque: “San Luis Potosí”
- Belarusian: “Сан-Луіс-Патасі”
- Belarusian: “Сан-Луіс-Патосі”
- Belarusian: “Сан-Люіс-Патосі”
- Belarusian: “Штат Сан-Луіс-Патасі”
- Belarusian: “Штат Сан-Луіс-Патосі”
- Bengali: “সান লুইস পোতোসি”
- Breton: “San Luis Potosí”
- Breton: “Stad San Luis Potosí”
- Bulgarian: “Сан Луис Потоси”
- Catalan: “estat de San Luis Potosí”
- Catalan: “Estat de San Luis Potosí”
- Catalan: “San Luis Potosí”
- Cebuano: “Estado de San Luis Potosí”
- Chechen: “Сан-Луис-Потоси (штат)”
- Chechen: “Сан-Луис-Потоси”
- Cheyenne: “San Luis Potosí”
- Chinese: “San Luis Potosí Chiu”
- Chinese: “圣路易斯波托西州”
- Chinese: “聖路易斯波托西州”
- Chinese: “聖路易斯波托西市”
- Cornish: “San Luis Potosí”
- Croatian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Czech: “San Luis Potosí”
- Danish: “San Luis Potosí”
- Dutch: “San Luis Potosí”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ولايه سان لويس بوتوسى”
- Esperanto: “San Luis Potosi”
- Esperanto: “San Luis Potosí”
- Esperanto: “Sanktludoviko Potosio”
- Esperanto: “Sanktluis-Potosio”
- Estonian: “San Luis Potosi osariik”
- Estonian: “San Luis Potosí osariik”
- Finnish: “San Luis Potosi”
- Finnish: “San Luis Potosí”
- French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí”
- French: “Etat de San Luis Potosi”
- French: “État de San Luis Potosi”
- French: “MX-SLP”
- French: “MX-SON”
- French: “San Luis Potosí”
- Galician: “Estado de San Luis Potosí”
- Georgian: “სან-ლუის-პოტოსი”
- Georgian: “სან-ლუის-პოტოსის შტატი”
- German: “MX-SLP”
- German: “San Luis Potosí”
- Greek: “Σαν Λουίς Ποτοσί”
- Gujarati: “સાન લુઈસ પોટોસી”
- Hausa: “San Luis Potosi”
- Hebrew: “סן לואיס פוטוסי”
- Hindi: “सान लुइस पोतोसी”
- Hindi: “सैन लुइ पोटोसी”
- Hungarian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Icelandic: “San Luis Potosí”
- Iloko: “San Luis Potosí”
- Indonesian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Interlingua: “San Luis Potosi”
- Irish: “San Luis Potosí”
- Italian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Japanese: “サン・ルイス・ポトシ”
- Japanese: “サン・ルイス・ポトシ州”
- Japanese: “サンルイスポトシ州”
- Javanese: “San Luis Potosi”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಲೂಯಿಸ್ ಪೊಟೊಸಿ”
- Kazakh: “Сан-Луис-Потоси”
- Kirghiz: “Сан-Луис-Потоси”
- Korean: “산 루이스 포토시 주”
- Korean: “산루이스포토시주”
- Ladino: “San Luis Potosí”
- Latin: “Civitas Sancti Ludovici Potosiensis”
- Latin: “Sanctus Ludovicus Potosiensis”
- Latin: “Sanctus Ludovicus Potosius”
- Latvian: “Sanluisa Potosi”
- Lithuanian: “San Luis Potosi valstija”
- Lithuanian: “San Luis Potosi”
- Luxembourgish: “San Luis Potosí”
- Malay: “San Luis Potosí”
- Marathi: “सान लुइस पोतोसी राज्य”
- Marathi: “सान लुइस पोतोसी”
- Marathi: “सान ल्विस पोतोसि राज्य”
- Mazanderani: “سن لوئیس پوتوسی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “San Luis Potosí Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Luis Potosi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Luis Potosí”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Luís Potosí”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten San Luis Potosí”
- Norwegian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Occitan (post 1500): “San Luis Potosí”
- Oromo: “San Luis Potosi”
- Ossetian: “Сан-Луис-Потоси (штат)”
- Ossetian: “Сан-Луис-Потоси”
- Pampanga: “San Luis Potosí”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਨ ਲੁਈਸ ਪੋਟੋਸੀ”
- Persian: “سان لوئیس پوتوسی”
- Persian: “سن لوئیس پوتوسی”
- Piemontese: “San Luis Potosí”
- Pipil: “San Luis Potosí”
- Polish: “San Luis Potosi”
- Polish: “San Luis Potosí”
- Polish: “San Luís Potosí”
- Portuguese: “Estado de San Luis Potosí”
- Portuguese: “Estado de São Luís Potosi”
- Portuguese: “S.L.P.”
- Portuguese: “San Luis Potosí”
- Portuguese: “São Luís Potosi”
- Portuguese: “SLP”
- Pushto: “سن لویس پتوسی”
- Quechua: “San Luis Potosí suyu”
- Romanian: “San Luis Potosi”
- Romanian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Romansh: “San Luis Potosí”
- Russian: “Сан-Луис-Потоси”
- Sardinian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Scots: “San Luis Potosi”
- Scots: “San Luis Potosí”
- Serbian: “Estado de San Luis Potosí”
- Serbian: “Држава Сан Луис Потоси”
- Serbian: “Сан Луис Потоси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Država San Luis Potosi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Luis Potosi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Sinhala: “සැන් ලුයිස් පොටෝසි ප්රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
- Sinhala: “සැන් ලුවිස් පොටෝසි”
- Slovak: “San Luis Potosí”
- Slovenian: “MX-SLP”
- Slovenian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Somali: “San Luis Potosi”
- Spanish: “Estado de San Luis Potosi”
- Spanish: “Estado de San Luis Potosí”
- Spanish: “La Poderosa”
- Spanish: “Rapadura”
- Spanish: “San Luis Potosi”
- Spanish: “San Luis Potosí”
- Spanish: “Slp”
- Swahili: “San Luis Potosí”
- Swedish: “San Luis Potosí”
- Tagalog: “San Luis Potosí”
- Tajik: “Иёлати Сан Луис Потоси”
- Tamil: “சான் லுயிஸ் போடோசி”
- Tatar: “Сан-Луис-Потоси (штат)”
- Tatar: “Сан-Луис-Потоси”
- Telugu: “సాన్ లూయీ పోటోసి”
- Thai: “San Luis Potosí”
- Thai: “รัฐซานลุยส์โปโตซี”
- Tumbuka: “San Luis Potosí”
- Turkish: “San Luis Potosí”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Луїс-Потосі”
- Urdu: “سان لوئیس پوتوسی”
- Uzbek: “San-Luis-Potosi”
- Venetian: “San Luis Potosí (stato)”
- Venetian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Vietnamese: “San Luis Potosí”
- Waray (Philippines): “San Luis Potosi”
- Waray (Philippines): “San Luis Potosí”
- Welsh: “San Luis Potosi”
- Welsh: “San Luis Potosí”
- Western Frisian: “San Luis Potosí (steat)”
- Western Frisian: “San Luis Potosí”
- Western Panjabi: “سان لوئیس پوٹوسی”
- Wu Chinese: “圣路易斯波托西州”
- Yue Chinese: “聖路易斯波托西州”
- “ma San Luwi Potosi”
- “San Luis Potosí”
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