San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí is located in the plateau between the western and eastern ranges of the Sierra Madre, in the state named after it, in México. In 2010 it had a metropolitan population of 1.041 million,1 and a city population of 686 thousand.2 The tallest building is the Edificio (Building) EME at an estimated 208 feet. Other buildings of note include four 18th century buildings: the templos de Carmen and de San Agustín; the Santuario de Gaudalupe; and the Catedral (Cathedral) de San Luis Rey.3
| Year | Population | Political entity |
| 1900 CE | 61,0004| México | |
| 2010 CE | 1,041,0001| México | |
External references
Catedral (Cathedral) de San Luis Rey, San Luis Potosí city, San Luis Potosí State, México
Historical maps
Footnotes
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_areas_of_Mexico, accessed 9/29/2014.
2. Side banner of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Luis_Potos%C3%AD,_San_Luis_Potos%C3%AD, accessed 9/7/2015.
3. Information about buildings is from emporis.com, accessed 9/7/2015. The list of tallest buildings there excludes those with estimated heights.
4. Estimate in Tables of the World's Largest Cities, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987).
