Downtown of San Luis Potosí

The city of San Luis Potosí was used to compare the wealth of the mines of the Hill of San Pedro with those of Potosí in Bolivia. Other versions of the origin of the name is that was given as homage to the Viceroy Luis of Velasco.


San Luis Potosi is considered one of the most important railway centers in the country, due to the magnitude of its installed workshops above all in the capital and Cardenas, and by the length of its railroads that puts it in sixth place nationally.


In San Luis Potosi the topography and of the different altitude (goes from 68 to 3 thousand meters), the conditions of the climate differ notably in the different parts of the State. In the Huasteca, it is tropical with rains in the summer; in the high zone of the Saw Eastern Mother, tempered and in the high plateau the climate is arid and semi-arid.