San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí, officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí, is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 59 municipalities and is named after its capital city, San Luis Potosí. It ...

is a

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in North Central

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that is divided into 59

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. According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the 19th most populated of Mexico's 31 states, with inhabitants and the 15th largest by land area spanning . The largest municipality by population is the capital of

, with 911,908 residents (32.31% of the state's total), while the smallest is

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with 4,013 residents. The largest municipality by land area is

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which spans , and the smallest is

Huehuetlán Huehuetlán is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí in central Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the ...

with . The newest municipality is Villa de Pozos, established in 2024 from the municipality of San Luis Potosí; followed by El Naranjo, created out of Ciudad del Maíz, and Matlapa, carved from Tamazunchale, both established in 1994. Municipalities in San Luis Potosi are administratively autonomous of the state according to the 115th article of the

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. Every three years, citizens elect a

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(Spanish: ''presidente municipal'') by a

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system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council (''ayuntamiento'') responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. The municipal council consists of a variable number of trustees and councillors (''regidores y síndicos''). Municipalities are responsible for public services (such as water and sewerage), street lighting, public safety, traffic, and the maintenance of public parks, gardens and cemeteries. They may also assist the state and federal governments in education, emergency fire and medical services, environmental protection and maintenance of monuments and historical landmarks. Since 1984, they have had the power to collect

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es and

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s, although more funds are obtained from the state and federal governments than from their own income.

Municipalities

File:Carmelight.jpg, alt=Templo del Carmen, San Luis Potosí,

is the capital and most populous municipality in San Luis Potosí. File:Parroquia Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, Soledad de Graciano Sánchez, San Luis Potosí.jpg, alt=Parroquia of Soledad, Soledad, second largest municipality by population in San Luis Potosí File:Cascadas_de_Río_Micos_-_Ciudad_Valles,_San_Luis_Potosí.jpg, alt=Micos River Waterfalls, Ciudad Valles,

Ciudad Valles Ciudad Valles is the second-largest city in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. It is located in the eastern part of the state (), in the cultural region of Huasteca. The city is also the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of the s ...

is the third most populous municipality in San Luis Potosí. File:Jardín_y_Templo_de_San_Salvador_de_Orta.jpg, alt=San Salvador de Orta Church, Matehuala,

Matehuala Matehuala is a city in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, situated at an elevation of about 1,500 m. Matehuala is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name, located in the northern part of the state, on the border with ...

, fourth largest municipality by population

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