The Monterrey metropolitan area, also known as Greater Monterrey, refers to the surrounding
urban agglomeration
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbani ...
of
Monterrey
Monterrey (, , abbreviated as MtY) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. Located at the foothills of th ...
,
Nuevo León
Nuevo León, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León, is a Administrative divisions of Mexico, state in northeastern Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, San Luis ...
. Officially called , the metropolitan area is the
2nd-largest in Mexico.
Overview
The Monterrey metropolitan area is composed of the municipalities/cities of:
*
Apodaca
*
Cadereyta Jiménez
Cadereyta Jiménez is the name of a city as well as of a Municipalities of Nuevo León, municipality in the Mexico, Mexican states of Mexico, state of Nuevo León.
The municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez is located in the central part of the state ...
*
El Carmen
*
Escobedo
*
García
*
Guadalupe
*
Juárez
*
Monterrey
Monterrey (, , abbreviated as MtY) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. Located at the foothills of th ...
*
Salinas Victoria
*
San Nicolás de los Garza
San Nicolás de los Garza, sometimes known only as San Nicolás, is a city and coextensive municipalities of Mexico, municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León that is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area. It has become primarily a city ...
*
San Pedro Garza García
San Pedro Garza García (also known as San Pedro) is a city-municipality in the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Mexican state of Nuevo León and part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. It is a contemporary commercial suburb of the larger met ...
*
Santa Catarina
*
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ...
There are three adjacent towns that do not maintain continuous urban development with the core
urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbani ...
. These towns are considered strategic as the metropolitan area grows and integrates them:
*
Ciénega de Flores
*
General Zuazua
*
Pesquería
See also
*
Metropolitan Areas of Mexico Metropolitan areas of Mexico have been traditionally defined as the group of municipalities that heavily interact with each other, usually around a core city, in Mexico. The phenomenon of conurbation, metropolization in Mexico is relatively recent, ...
References
External links
*
INEGI - Statistics of the ZMM - 2001* https://www.nuevoleon.gob.mx
Metropolitan areas of Mexico
*
{{NuevoLeón-geo-stub