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List Of Twin Towns And Sister Cities In Mexico
This is a list of municipalities in Mexico which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world). A Acámbaro * Greenfield, United States * Laredo, United States Acapulco * Beverly Hills, United States * Cannes, France * Cartagena, Colombia * Eilat, Israel * Onjuku, Japan * Qingdao, China * Sendai, Japan Agua Prieta * Douglas, United States Aguascalientes * Lampa, Peru * Lynwood, United States * Modesto, United States * O Salnés, Spain * Pharr, United States * Temple, United States Álamos * Scottsdale, United States Allende * San Elizario, United States Ángel Albino Corzo * Ayutla, Guatemala * La Blanca, Guatemala * Catarina, Guatemala * Coatepeque, Guatemala * Malacatán, Guatemala * Ocós, Guatemala La Antigua * Medellín, Spain Atizapán de Zara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lampa, Peru
Lampa is a town in Southern Peru. It is the capital of the Lampa Province in the Puno Region Puno () is a department and region in southeastern Peru. It is the fifth largest department in Peru, after Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It is bordered by Bolivia on the east, the departments of Madre de Dios on the north, Cusco .... Lampa is situated near the lake Pukaqucha. File:Lampa Puno.jpg, The town of Lampa and parts of the lake Pukaqucha as seen from the air References External links Populated places in the Puno Region {{Puno-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catarina, San Marcos
Catarina is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. It is recognised as different municipality on 20 January 1925, when it split from Malacatán municipality. Climate Catarina has tropical monsoon climate (Köppen: ''Am''). Geographic location Catarina is surrounded by San Marcos Department San Marcos is a department in northwestern Guatemala, on the Pacific Ocean and along the western Guatemala-Mexico border. The department's capital is the city of San Marcos. History Colonial period The Spanish conquest of Guatemalan Highlan ... municipalities. See also * * References External linksSome information {{San Marcos Department Municipalities of the San Marcos Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Blanca, San Marcos
La Blanca is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala on the Pacific Ocean shore. It was created on 23 January 2014, when it was split from Ocos, along with Chiquirines and Pueblo Nuevo villages and became San Marcos Department thirtieth municipality. When created in 2014, La Blanca had about 25,000 inhabitants. Climate La Blanca has tropical climate (Köppen:''Cwb''). Geographic location See also * * * La Aurora International Airport * Tapachula International Airport Tapachula International Airport , ''Aeropuerto Internacional de Tapachula'', is an international airport located at Tapachula, Chiapas, is Mexico's southernmost airport. It handles national and international air traffic for the city of Tapachula, ... References {{San Marcos Department Municipalities of the San Marcos Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayutla, San Marcos
Ayutla () is a municipality in the San Marcos Department of Guatemala. It is situated along the Suchiate River natural border with Mexico in the southern part of the department. The municipality center is Ciudad Tecún Umán. There is a combined road and rail bridge known as ''Puente Rodolfo Robles'' linking Ayutla to Ciudad Hidalgo in Chiapas, Mexico. There exists a railway which was rebuilt in 2019 In December 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Ayutla's mayor, Erick Zúñiga, under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, alleging Zúñiga to be "a major drug trafficker," while also alleging that Zúñiga controls a drug trafficking organization and "supplies cocaine to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel ." Climate Ayutla has tropical savanna climate (Köppen: ''Aw''). Geographic location See also * * * San Marcos Department * Rail transport in Central America * Rail transport in Guatemala * Rail transport in Mexico Mexico has a freight railway system o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel Albino Corzo
Ángel Albino Corzo is one of the 122 municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 1748.81 km². Its municipal seat is the town of Jaltenango de la Paz. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 26,628, up from 21,848 as of 2005. The municipality had 199 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Jaltenango de la Paz (10,427), Nueva Palestina (3,475), classified as urban, and Querétaro (2,203), Francisco I. Madero (1,819), Nueva Colombia (1,568), and Nueva Independencia (1,283), classified as rural. The municipality was created on 24 February 1933 during the administration of Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ... Victórico R. Grajales. It was named for 19th-century Chiapas po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Elizario, Texas
San Elizario is a city in El Paso County, Texas, United States. Its population was 13,603 at the 2010 census. It is part of the El Paso metropolitan statistical area. It lies on the Rio Grande, which forms the border between the United States and Mexico. The city of Socorro adjoins it on the west and the town of Clint lies to the north. History ''La Toma'': The Official Act of Possession In 1598, Don Juan de Oñate, a Spanish nobleman and conquistador born in Zacatecas, Mexico, led a group of 539 colonists and 7,000 head of livestock (including horses, oxen, and cattle) from southern Chihuahua to settle the province of New Mexico. The caravan traveled a northeasterly route for weeks across the desert until it reached the banks of the Rio Grande in the San Elizario area. A mass was held, a blessing of the standard and a celebration. Oñate performed the ceremony of ''La Toma'' ("Taking Possession"), in which he claimed the new province for King Philip II of Spain. This is consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allende Municipality, Chihuahua
Allende Municipality ( es, Municipio de Allende) is one of 67 municipalities in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, located in the southeastern portion of the state. Valle de Allende is its municipal seat and largest city. Its main claim to fame is the 1969 fall of the Allende meteorite. Demographics As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 8,409, up from 8,263 as of 2005. Localities The municipality had 146 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Valle de Ignacio Allende Valle de Allende is the municipal seat and largest city of the municipality of Allende in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Originally named Valle de San Bartolomé for Bartholomew the Apostle, it was founded in 1569 by Franciscan friars. The city i ... (4,185), classified as urban, and Pueblito de Allende (1,381), classified as rural. Towns and villages Government Municipal presidents References See also Municipal Government Web Site (Spanish) Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottsdale, Arizona
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Álamos Municipality
Álamos Municipality is a municipality in south-western Sonora, Mexico. It includes the town of Álamos. It is one of the 72 municipalities of the Mexican state of Sonora, located in the southeastern part of the state. Its municipal seat is the magical town of Álamos. Other important localities are: San Bernardo, El Mocúzarit (Conicárit), Los Tanques, among others. There are also a number of communities with the presence of Guarijíos and Mayos indigenous peoples, such as Mesa Colorada, Guajaray, Bavícora, El Paso, and Basiroa. It was decreed an independent municipality in 1813, at the same time as another large number of municipalities, in the first political division of Sonora as a state, through the Spanish Constitution of Cádiz. At that time the municipality ceased to be part of the province of Sinaloa. According to the Population and Housing Census 2020 carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography The National Institute of Statistics and Geogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple, Texas
Temple is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. As of 2020, the city has a population of 82,073 according to the U.S. census, and is one of the two principal cities in Bell County. Located near the county seat of Belton, Temple lies in the region referred to as Central Texas and is a principal city in the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood metropolitan area, which as of 2015 had a population of 450,051. Located off Interstate 35, Temple is 65 miles north of Austin, 34 miles south of Waco and 27 miles east of Killeen. The primary economic drivers are the extensive medical community (mostly due to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple) and goods distribution based on its central location between the Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston metropolitan areas, and proximity to larger neighbors Austin and Waco. History Temple was founded as a railroad town in 1881 by the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad. It was incorporated in 1882. The town was named after a San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pharr, Texas
Pharr is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 70,400, and in 2019, the estimated population was 79,112. Pharr is connected by bridge to the Mexican city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Pharr is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas. Geography Pharr is located in southern Hidalgo County at (26.206334, –98.185174). It is bordered to the west by the city of McAllen, to the north by Edinburg, the county seat, to the east by San Juan, and to the southwest by Hidalgo. The Pharr city limits extend south in a narrow band to the Rio Grande and the Pharr–Reynosa International Bridge into Mexico. According to the United States Census Bureau, Pharr has a total area of , of which , or 0.12%, is covered by water. Communities: * Las Milpas (annexed in 1987) History The community was named after sugar planter Henry Newton Pharr. For a number of years centering around early 1900, Henry N. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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