The Monterrey metropolitan area refers to the surrounding

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Monterrey Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...

Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...

. Officially called ''Area Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Monterrey'' or AMM, the metropolitan area is the 2nd-largest in Mexico.

Overview

The Monterrey metropolitan area is composed of the municipalities/cities of: *

Apodaca Apodaca () is a city and its surrounding municipality that is part of Monterrey Metropolitan area. It lies in the northeastern part of the Monterrey Metropolitan Area. It is known for becoming recently a heavy industrialized city. As of 2019, th ...

Cadereyta Jiménez Cadereyta may refer to: *Cadereyta de Montes, Querétaro, Mexico *Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León, Mexico *Cadereyta Jiménez massacre The Cadereyta Jiménez massacre occurred on the Mexican Federal Highway 40, Fed 40 on 12–13 May 2012. Mexica ...

* Escobedo * García * Guadalupe * Juárez *

* Salinas Victoria *

San Nicolás de los Garza San Nicolás de los Garza, sometimes known only as San Nicolás, is a city and coextensive municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León that is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area. It has become primarily a city for residences and family h ...

San Pedro Garza García San Pedro Garza García ''(''also known as San Pedro or Garza García'')'' is a city-municipality of the Mexican state of Nuevo León and part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. It is a contemporary commercial suburb of the larger metropolitan c ...

* Santa Catarina *

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There are three adjacent towns that do not maintain continuous urban development with the core

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. These towns are considered strategic as the metropolitan area grows and integrates them: *

Ciénega de Flores A ciénega (also spelled ciénaga) is a wetland system unique to the American Southwest. Ciénagas are alkaline, freshwater, spongy, wet meadows with shallow-gradient, permanently saturated soils in otherwise arid landscapes that often occupy n ...

General Zuazua General Zuazua Municipality is a municipality in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, it is located in the north-central part of the state, which has been called peripheral region because of its proximity to Monterrey metropolitan area. ...

Pesquería Pesquería Municipality is a municipality of the state of Nuevo León in Mexico. It is located at 25º47´N 100º3´W and above sea level. It is part of the suburban area of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. Its distance to the Monterrey city ...

References

External links

*
INEGI - Statistics of the ZMM - 2001
* https://www.nuevoleon.gob.mx Metropolitan areas of Mexico * {{NuevoLeón-geo-stub