Doctor Arroyo Municipality is a municipality located in the northeastern Mexican state of
Nuevo León. It has a territorial extension of 5,106.2 km
2. The municipality was named in honor of
José Francisco Arroyo de Anda. The municipality was renamed on September 22, 1826. The municipality had 33,269 inhabitants in the 2010 census.
Located
It lies in the
Sierra Madre Oriental, it borders the municipalities of
Aramberri and
Galeana to the north,
Mier y Noriega and the state of
San Luis Potosí to the south and the municipalities of
Aramberri,
General Zaragoza, the state of
Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...
to the east. Doctor Arroyo is located in the zone there are great rivers of intermittent streams and a large mountain range, where occasional snowfall occurs in winter.
References
External links
Municipality website City website
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Municipalities of Nuevo León