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6 unusual facts about San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi


Armando Reynoso

Armando Martin Reynoso Gutierrez (born May 1, 1966 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher.

Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija

In the second stage, a nomination focused on mercury herigate in relation to silver mining, together with San Luis Potosí mine in Mexico - however, the nomination did not gather sufficient support.

Marshall Ayres, Jr.

In 1891, the company Lombard & Ayres was worth $1,250,000 and owned the Seaboard Lumber Company, and were heavy exporters of oil to Mexico where they had refineries in Veracruz and San Luis Potosí.

Miguel Puente

Migel Antonio Puente Aguilar (born May 8, 1948 in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí) is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher.

Oralia Domínguez

She was born in the city of San Luis Potosí in northern Mexico and studied at the National Conservatory of Music where she made the acquaintance of the composer Carlos Chavez who championed her career.

Potosi, Texas

In 1893, R.A. Pollard applied for a post office and chose the name Potosi after the Mexican city of San Luis Potosí.


2012 in Mexico

August 12 - Edgar Morales Perez, PRI mayor-elect of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, and his campaign manager were assassinated by unknown attackers.

Antonio de La Gándara

La Gándara was born in Paris, France, but his father was of Spanish ancestry, born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and his mother was from England.

Arturo Estrada Hernández

In 1961, he painted his own mural, an acrylic mural called The Youth of San Luis Potosi and The Revolution at the Casa de Juventud in that city followed by Tríptico de Independencia in Cuautla .

Cenobio Hernandez

Cenobio Hernández (1863–1950) was a Mexican-American composer, born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico and died in San Antonio, Texas.

Clásico del Centro

The fans of each team behave in a violent way and unfortunately because of the proximity of the two cities, the rivalry deportivo.2 often exceeds what is also known as 'the classic 57' in reference to the Mexican Federal Highway 57, which passes near the Estadio Alfonso Lastras in San Luis Potosi and the Estadio La Corregidora in Querétaro.

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.

Fausto Ruíz

Fausto David Ruiz Villalobos (born April 25, 1985 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is a Mexican footballer currently playing for C.F. Mérida of the Liga de Ascenso in Mexico.

Galeana, Nuevo León

Galeana shares borders with the states of Coahuila and San Luis Potosí to the west; with the municipalities of Aramberri and Doctor Arroyo to the south; Rayones to the north; and with Linares, Montemorelos, Rayones and Iturbide to the east.

Hunac Ceel

In the year 2000, the Mexican folk dance and music group Hunac-Ceel was founded in San Luis Potosí.

Jaime Zapata

Jaime Jorge Zapata (May 7, 1978 – February 15, 2011) was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent who was ambushed and murdered by the Mexican criminal group Los Zetas in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

José Mariano Jiménez

Mariano Jiménez went to Mexico city to ask for the surrender of the city but the viceroy denied it, he went back to Guanajuato city and participated in her defense because the city was attacked by Calleja in November 24, after he went to Guadalajara and San Luis Potosí.

José Núñez de Cáceres

He and his family went to Mexico, where he first settled in the city of San Luis Potosi and then in Ciudad Victoria, capital of Tamaulipas.

Manuel Carrillo Tablas

Don Manuel Carrillo Iturriaga married Doña María Limón (from San Luis Potosí) and both lived in Orizaba, Veracruz.

MASTV

The wireless cable company offers service to 11 cities in Mexico; Mexico City, Guadalajara, Leon, Mérida, Monterrey, Pachuca, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Toluca, Tuxtla Gutierrez, and Villahermosa.

Museo Nacional de la Máscara

Museo Nacional de la Máscara (National Mask Museum) is a museum in the city of San Luis Potosí dedicated to Mexico’s masked dance and ritual heritage from the pre Hispanic period to the present.

Museo Universitario de Artes Populares María Teresa Pomar

The Textile Room features shawls called rebozos, especially those from Santa Maria del Río in San Luis Potosí, made on backstrap and European pedal looms.

National Institute of Genomic Medicine INMEGEN

This study is carried out in individuals genetically isolated of the La Huasteca area of San Luis Potosí.

Ponciano Arriaga International Airport

On November 4, 2008, former Secretary of the interior Juan Camilo Mouriño was killed when the SEGOB-owned Learjet he was travelling on his way back from San Luis Potosí crashed at Mexico City before reaching the airport.

San Luis Potosí, Mexico

The state of San Luis Potosí, one of the 32 component federal entities of the United Mexican States

Siege of Cuautla

A few days later, 7,000 reinforcement loyalists troops arrived under the command of Ciriaco del Llano and José Gabriel de Armijo from Asturias, Guanajuato, Lovera, San Luis Potosí, Zamora and Tulancingo.


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