Empalme (album)
Empalme (Spanish: "junction", "splice", "union") may refer to ;Places *Empalme, Sonora, city in northwestern Mexico * Empalme Villa Constitución, town in the Argentine province of Santa Fe * El Empalme, town in the Ecuadorian province of Guayas * Empalme Escobedo, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato * Empalme Nicolich, in Uruguay * Empalme Olmos, in Uruguay ;Other * Empalme (food), tortilla sandwich originating in the Mexican state of Nuevo León * Empalme (Madrid Metro), station on Line 5 of the Madrid Metro The Madrid Metro (Spanish: ''Metro de Madrid'') is a rapid transit system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. The system is the 14th longest rapid transit system in the world, with a total length of 293 km (182 mi). Its gro ...

Empalme, Sonora
Empalme is a city surrounded by a municipality located on the south-central coast of the Mexican state of Sonora. According to the 2005 census the population of the city was 40,630 inhabitants, while the municipality, which has an area of 708.53 km² (273.56 sq mi), reported 50,663 inhabitants. Except for its coastline on the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes), the municipality is entirely surrounded by the much larger municipality of Guaymas. In Spanish, the word ''empalme'' means "junction". At first, the community site was called ''Kilómetro Nueve'' because it was nine kilometers out of the port city of Guaymas. Then for a while it was called ''El Empalme'' meaning ''the junction''. The ''El'' was soon dropped. Unlike other towns or cities in Mexico, Empalme was built completely by foreigners, specifically the Utah Construction Company under contract to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Very few native materials were used in the construction. The founders owned ...
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