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Nuevo León

The industrial heart of northeastern Mexico

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Nuevo León

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It covers 64,156 square kilometers and had a population of 5.78 million as of 2020.[1][2] The capital, Monterrey, is part of a metropolitan area that contains about 92% of the state's population.[3]

Geography and history

Prior to Spanish colonization, the region was home to nomadic hunter-gatherer groups including the Coahuiltecans, Alazapas, Borrados, and Guachichiles.[4] During the colonial period, the province experienced territorial losses, including the loss of Coahuila and Texas in 1643 and the establishment of Nuevo Santander.[5] News of the Cry of Dolores on 16 September 1810 took until 29 September to reach the New Kingdom of León due to its isolation.[6] Nuevo León was formally constituted as a state within the Mexican federation on 7 May 1824.[7]

The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 cemented the state's role as a manufacturing hub.[8] The Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, which dominates the southern and western parts of Nuevo León, accounts for 50.9% of the state's total area.[2] Under Governor Bernardo Reyes during the Porfiriato, the state underwent rapid industrial development, which included the founding of major enterprises such as the Cuauhtémoc brewery (1900) and Cementos Hidalgo (1905).[9][10]

What the cited sources add

The Indigenous Mexico account states that Nuevo León touches the United States along 14 kilometers of the Texas border.[4] The same source notes that the original inhabitants were nomadic hunters and gatherers, and that historians estimate roughly 250 tribes with different denominations lived in the region.[4] The same article notes that the 1909 Monterrey hurricane is considered the deadliest event in the state's history.[11] The José de Escandón account explains that 252 settlers from Nuevo León joined the new populations of Nuevo Santander.[12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Nuevo León" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "DATA NUEVO LEÓN N.L. Aspectos Geográficos de Nuevo León"; "Medio Físico - Nuevo León", www.inafed.gob.mx (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Nuevo León" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Relieve. Nuevo León", cuentame.inegi.org.mx (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Nuevo León" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Flores, "Zona Metropolitana de Monterrey es la segunda más poblada de México: Inegi", El Economista (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. "Indigenous Nuevo León: Land of the Coahuiltecans", Indigenous Mexico. facts only, no text reused. indigenousmexico.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Nuevo León" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gerhard, "Geografía histórica de la Nueva España, 1519-1821", Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1986; "José de Escandón y las Nuevas Poblaciones del Nuevo Santander", www.ub.edu (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Nuevo León" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: En los albores de la independencia: Las Provincias Internas de Oriente durante la insurrección de don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, 1810–1811. by Isidro Vizcaya Ca (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Nuevo León" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Constitutive Act of the Mexican Federation (21 January 1824) and Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States (4 October 1824)", The Gammel Book Company, 1898, p. 71–93; "200 años de Federalismo en México y Nuevo León", Secretaría de Cultura; "De Nuevo Reino a Nuevo León: Hoy se cumplen dos siglos de grandeza", Grupo Milenio, 2024-07-05; "200 años de Federalismo en México y Nuevo León", Secretaría de Cultura (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Nuevo León" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Beltrones, "Los avances del México contemporáneo: 1955-2015. I. La economía y las finanzas públicas. Colección INAP", ISBN 978-607-9026-55-4, 2018-07-24 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Nuevo León" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Garza, "Breve historia de Nuevo León", Colegio de México, 1995; Ramírez, "El control geopolítico en el noreste porfiriano: Nuevo Laredo y la fundación de Colombia en 1892", Frontera Norte, 1991 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Nuevo León" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canales, "Los orígenes de la industrialización de Monterrey: una historia económica y social desde la caída del Segundo Imperio hasta el fin de la Revolución (1867-1920).", Fondo Editorial de NL, 2006; Saragoza, "The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State, 1880–1940", University of Texas Press, 2014-10-14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. "'Más de 20 años'; la coincidencia en las fechas que llegaron huracanes a NL", ABC Noticias, 2022-09-06. facts only, no text reused. abcnoticias.mx
  12. "José de Escandón y las Nuevas Poblaciones del Nuevo Santander", www.ub.edu. facts only, no text reused. ub.edu

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