The Monterrey metropolitan area refers to the surrounding
urban agglomeration
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities ...
of
Monterrey,
Nuevo León. Officially called ''Area Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Monterrey'' or AMM, the metropolitan area is the
2nd-largest in Mexico.
Overview
The Monterrey metropolitan area is composed of the municipalities/cities of:
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Apodaca
Apodaca () is a city and its surrounding municipality that is part of Monterrey Metropolitan area. It lies in the northeastern part of the Monterrey Metropolitan Area. It is known for becoming recently a heavy industrialized city. As of 2019, th ...
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Cadereyta Jiménez Cadereyta may refer to:
*Cadereyta de Montes, Querétaro, Mexico
* Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León, Mexico
*Cadereyta Jiménez massacre
The Cadereyta Jiménez massacre occurred on the Fed 40 on 12–13 May 2012. Mexican officials stated that 49 ...
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Escobedo
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García
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Guadalupe
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Juárez
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Monterrey
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Salinas Victoria
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San Nicolás de los Garza
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San Pedro Garza García
San Pedro Garza García ''(''also known as San Pedro or Garza García'')'' is a city-municipality of the Mexican state of Nuevo León and part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. It is a contemporary commercial suburb of the larger metropolitan c ...
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Santa Catarina
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Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...
There are three adjacent towns that do not maintain continuous urban development with the core
urban area
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities ...
. These towns are considered strategic as the metropolitan area grows and integrates them:
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Ciénega de Flores
A ciénega (also spelled ciénaga) is a wetland system unique to the American Southwest. Ciénagas are alkaline, freshwater, spongy, wet meadows with shallow-gradient, permanently saturated soils in otherwise arid landscapes that often occupy n ...
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General Zuazua
General Zuazua Municipality is a municipality in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, it is located in the north-central part of the state, which has been called peripheral region because of its proximity to Monterrey metropolitan area. ...
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Pesquería
References
External links
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INEGI - Statistics of the ZMM - 2001* https://www.nuevoleon.gob.mx
Metropolitan areas of Mexico
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