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Nuevo Leon:
Nuevo
Leon State is located to the northwest of the Mexican
Republic, its limits are: to the north with the State
of Coahuila, the State of
Tamaulipas and USA; to the
southwest with the State of Zacatecas
and the State of San Luis Potosí;
to the east with the State of Tamaulipas
and to the west with the State of Coahuila.
Nuevo
Leon has an extension of 65,103 km2 and split
into 52 municipalities and a population of approximately
3'834,141 inhabitants.
The
name of Nuevo Reino de Leon (New Lion Kingdom) was
consider from the Spanish in recollection of the ancient
Reino Ibero de Leon (Iberian Lion kingdom) and after the
Independence take its current name.
Due
to its topography, its climate is very assorted,
according to the region of the fact that is tried and
the era of the year. However, it can be distinguished
tempered it with rains in summer, the dry of steppe, the
warm, the semi warm and the cold. Has a temperature
maximum average of 27.8º C and a minimal of 16.5º. The
rains average is of June to September and the dominant
winds those of east and north.
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