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37 unusual facts about Monterrey


1969 - Siempre, En Vivo Desde Monterrey, Parte 1

1969 - Siempre, En Vivo Desde Monterrey, Parte 1' is a live album released by Jenni Rivera from Monterrey Mexico on December 3, 2013.

2013 Final Four Men's Volleyball Cup

The 2013 Final Four Men's Volleyball Cup was first edition of the annual Men's Volleyball Tournament, played by four countries from November 6–9, 2013 in Monterrey, Mexico.

Arnaud Tournant

:1st Kilo, World Cup, Monterrey

:1st Team Sprint, World Cup, Monterrey (with Franck Durivaux & Arnaud Dublé)

Aventuras En El Tiempo En Vivo

This was the second material recorded thanks to the same telenovela, the which contains themes different at previous, and something similar but in different versions, the sales were spectacular in the same way the big final of closing of the telenovela in the Fundidora Park in Monterrey.

Binyamin Temkin

Born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1945, he studied his BA in Economics at the Universidad de Nuevo Leon, and participated in the leftist student movements of the 1960s.

Borregos Salvajes – ITESM Campus Monterrey

"Borregos Salvajes" is an American football team from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey aka ITESM), a private managed higher education institution in Monterrey, Mexico.

Brunswick Corporation

It has established regional headquarters in Verviers, Belgium; Monterrey, Dandenong, Australia; and Dubai to better serve its customers by designing, engineering, manufacturing and distributing products based on local needs, using local talent.

Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge

- Opened in 2003, the Puente Atirantado (sometimes called Puente de la Unidad or Viaducto de la Unidad) is a cable-stayed bridge that crosses the Río Santa Catarina and joins San Pedro Garza García with Monterrey.

Carmen Hernández Brenes

Carmen Hernández Brenes is a professor and researcher at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Campus Monterrey.

División Minúscula

The band disbanded briefly when its members went off to college in Monterrey, Nuevo León.

Edson Lopes

In 2005 the Quartet participated in the "33rd Arts Festival" in Hong Kong, in the "VII Internacional Guitar Festival" in Monterrey, Mexico and in 2006 in the "V International Guitar Festival" in the city of Aarhus, Denmark.

Elenitza Canavati

Elenitza Canavati Hadjopulos (born December 20, 1972 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is a Mexican politician and graduate in International Relations.

Flor Ayala

Industrial and Systems Engineer graduate from the Monterrey Institute of Technology, Campus Monterrey.

Fondation Napoléon

The Fondation Napoléon organises exhibitions of its collection of fine art and historical memorabilia, etc. (Exhibitions includes Paris (2004), São Paulo, (2003) Brazil, Monterrey Mexico (2005), Minden (2006) Germany ) and loans items from the collection to prestigious exhibition worldwide.

Grace Loh

Loh recently won the women's 100m Backstroke Event at the 2nd FINA World Youth Swimming Championship in Monterrey, Mexico.

Guía Roji

Many modern Guía Roji editions include a plastic flat magnifying glass, entire Metro networks for Mexico City and Monterrey, and, for the Mexico City edition, a folding map containing the Distribuidor Vial and the Centro Histórico.

Harris Whitbeck

He also reported on the Latin American Summit from Monterrey, Mexico.

Héctor Huerta Ríos

Huerta-Rios was the leader of the organization's operations in the city of Monterrey.

Hipermart

The chain opened its first stores in 1989 (San Pedro and Cumbres in Monterrey, and San Lorenzo in Ciudad Juárez).

Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine

The Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine (in Spanish: Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, EMIS) is the medical school division of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) founded in 1978 in Monterrey, Mexico, in order to provide medical education, training and to promote reliable biomedical investigation in Mexico with the support of the ITESM research infrastructure.

José Luis González Velarde

José Luis González Velarde is a professor and researcher with the Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus.

Judith Grace González

She first started off being the host of one of the most successful TV shows from Televisa in Monterrey, Mexico, "Estilo".

Mary A. Ryan

She was assigned as personnel officer at the American Embassy in Tegucigalpa, 1970–1971, and subsequently served as a consular officer at the American consulate general in Monterrey.

Prepa Tec

Prepa Tec is a group of high schools located through Monterrey.

Rafael Mercadante

He first appeared on television aged ten on a local channel in Monterrey with a dancing team, "Rafael y su Ballet", and later was involved in another group, "Karma" which performed in Saltillo, Coahuila.

Ray Downs

Ray Downs is a novelist with three novels and hundreds of short stories to his credit, many about Mexico where he spent several years teaching English as a second language and Creative Writing at the University of Monterrey (UDEM) in Monterrey, Mexico.

Selma Oxor

In both 2012 and 2013 she returned to her homecity of Monterrey, Mexico to play at NRMAL Festival, which is held annually in the state of Nuevo Leon.

Silverio García Lara

Silverio García Lara is a professor and researcher with the Nutraceutical Foods for Treatment of Chronic-Degenerative Disease group and a professor in biotechnology with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies, Campus Monterrey with the Escuela Biotecnología y Alimentos.

Stefan Milenković

In 1991, he played for Pope John Paul II, and in 1993, Milenković gave his 1000th concert in Monterrey, Mexico.

Stevanato Group

In 2008 a new production plant called “Ompi of America” was built in MonterreyMexico.

The Perfect Game

Their team was Industriales de Monterrey, nicknamed "Los pequeños gigantes" (The little giants).

The film scenes in Monterrey, which is the leading industrial center, one of the largest Mexican cities for over 100 years and a major center for science and research in Mexico, depicted the city as a two-burro village where the children played ball in the dirt choked streets with pigs and chickens serving as bases.

The film is based on a true story about a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico, who became the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series in 1957.

Toshiaki Nogiwa

In 1976, Shihan Toshiaki Nogiwa was sent to Mexico as a coach of Japan Shito-Kai in the cities of Monterrey, Piedras Negras, and Saltillo, Coahuila, where the club of Karate-Do of the Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro (UAAAN)was initiated in 1977, which remains under his technical direction.

Vesperian Sorrow

Most recently in June of '09 they were hand picked for direct support for the legendary Mayhem in Monterrey. The band released Stormwinds of Ages on The Path Less Traveled Records on April 24, 2012

Yaron Kohlberg

Kohlberg has also won first prizes in the Parnassos International Competition in Monterrey (Mexico) and the Shostakovich International Competition in Hanover, and was a top prizewinner in other international competitions such as Andorra, Tivoli (Copenhagen) and Grieg (Oslo).


AAA Northern Tag Team Championship

The title is contested for almost exclusively in the Monterrey, Nuevo León area, primarily in Arena Coliseo.

Abel Guerra

In 2009 he tried to be PRI candidate to the 2009 Nuevo León gubernatorial election but instead he was designated the PRI candidate to the Monterrey municipal presidency election.

Aguazul

The presence of the paramilitary group Autodefensas Campesinas de Casanare, whose base of operations was in the nearby municipalities of Villanueva and Monterrey, was a constant until 2004 when the group surrendered the zone to the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia AUC, in a battle which is said to have cost more than 3.000 lives.

Alberto Bustani Adem

From 1979 to 1983 Bustani worked in research and development for HYL then a subsidiary of HYLSA (now TENOVA HYL of Techint Group), a steel company based in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico in the area of direct reduction of iron ores.

Azteca de Gyves

Her individual exhibitions include Zoología en Azul at the Centro Cultural Juan Rulfo in Mexico City (1998), Ancestros at the Museo de Artesanías e Industrias Populares del Estado de Oaxaca (2000), Serie Marina at Galería Nutall in Oaxaca (2000), Naturaleza Nuestra at Exposiciones Pictórica in Oaxaca (2001), De Paseo con la Muerte at Galería Binni Rutié in Monterrey (2006) and Viaje a Mitla at Galería Binni Rutié (2007) .

Copachisa

Copachisa (Constructora de Parques de Chihuahua, S.A. de C.V.) is an industrial design and construction company based in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, with regional offices in Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Mexico City.

David Velázquez Fernández

Velazquez has presented his work in Mexico in different states such as: Jalisco, Guanajuato, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí, Monterrey, Guerrero and Oaxaca.

Edward Hogg

He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2009 for his role in White Lightnin, and won Best Actor awards at the Monterrey and Mumbai Film Festivals for the same role.

Hector King

Between 2007 and 2008 alone, King had four of his adaptations staged, all in Monterrey, Mexico: the Mexican premieres of Sweeney Todd, Footloose and Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour and the new Mexican productions of The Scarlet Pimpernel and RENT.

Hill-Rom

The company has their primary offices and manufacturing facilities in Acton, MA, Batesville, IN, Cary, NC, Charleston, SC, Montpellier, France, Pluvigner (France), Monterrey, Mexico, and as well as a multitude of offices and service centers around the world.

HIV/AIDS in Mexico

Results from studies in 2006 by Gayet et al., Magis et al., and the Biological Behavioral Surveillance Survey conducted in Mexico showed that HIV prevalence rates among male sex workers were 25 percent in Monterrey, 20 percent in Guadalajara and Mexico City, and 12 percent in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl.

Hoyo de Monterrey

Red Auerbach was famous for smoking a Hoyo de Monterrey "victory cigar" before the end of basketball games of the Boston Celtics, the NBA team he worked for as a coach and executive from 1950 to 1997 and again from 2001 until his death in 2006.

Jorge Wilmot

Exhibitions have been held in Mexico City, for San Agustín Etla in Oaxaca, Guadalajara and Monterrey, sponsored by MAP and other entities.

José Emilio Amores

José Emilio Amores Cañals (born March 10, 1919) was one of the first chemistry teachers at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and currently known for his work in promoting the arts from 1947 to the present in the city of Monterrey, Mexico.

Judith Grace González

In 1997, she ran for mayor of the city of Monterrey on the Labor Party (Partido Trabajo) ticket, and in 2000 she was the Alliance for Mexico candidate for senator from the state of Nuevo León.

Judith Gutiérrez

Gutierrez held numerous individual exhibitions and is represented in many galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Pasadena, Washington, Great Britain, Osaka, Guayaquil, Quito, Mexico City, Munich, Havana, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Panamá, and São Paulo.

Los Claxons

In November 2008, Los Claxons opened for the Californian group Maroon 5 in the three concerts they gave in Monterrey, Guadalajara, and Mexico City, which broadened their exposure to the public.

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Tampico

The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Tampico Campus (in Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Tampico) commonly shortened as Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Tampico or ITESM Campus Tampico, is a campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education private university system in the city of Tampico, Mexico.

Ohio Army National Guard

The 1st Ohio Volunteers comprised part of the army under Gen. Zachary Taylor and took part in the battlefield victories of Monterrey and Buena Vista.

Old Basilica of Guadalupe, Monterrey

Other notable Roman Catholic churches in the area are: Cathedral of Monterrey, La Purísima, the Chappel of the Sweet Names, La Salle, El Roble, the Sacred Heart and the present Basilica of Guadalupe.

The Old Basilica of Guadalupe is a Roman Catholic apostolic building located in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, just outside the city's downtown.

Pablo Reimers Morales

He was born July 13, 1946 and raised in Zacatecas until 1961, when he left the state to attend high school at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Monterrey in 1961.

Paul A. Trivelli

He has been posted to Mexico City, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Quito, Panama City, El Salvador, Monterrey, and Managua.

Phi Sigma Iota

In 1982, the Society became the International Foreign Language Honor Society by installing its first Chapter in a foreign country (Universidad Regiomontana, Monterrey, Mexico).

Ricardo Ferretti

However, in that season, Tigres signed Nery Pumpido as coach, but because of the similiraty in the style of play and the almost insignificant change to the squad's roster, local media in Monterrey always rumored that Ferretti coached Tigres behind Pumpido.

Rummana Hussain

:Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico

Susan Rothenberg

Recent exhibitions include a retrospective organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (1992–1994), which traveled to Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, and Seattle (1992); a retrospective at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey, Mexico (1996); a survey of prints and drawings presented by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (1998); and Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1999).

Tierra y Libertad

" Tierra y Libertad / Colonia Tierra y Libertad / TyL ", a neighborhood located within the edges of the Cerro del Topo Chico, in the northern section of the municipality and metropolitan city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Tourism in Mexico

The Museo de Historia Mexicana (Museum of Mexican History), MARCO (Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art), Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey and the Museum of the Palacio de Gobierno, or State House, are some of the better known museums in the city, as well as nationally.