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NIS Gazetteer Mexico

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-08-25 · 757 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is the National Intelligence Survey Gazetteer for Mexico, published by the Central Intelligence Agency in March 1956 and prepared by the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior. It contains about 53,000 entries for places and features in Mexico. It gives official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names along with unapproved variant names, and lists coordinates, feature designations and map references. It is marked for official use only and has no UFO content.

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POPL	20 25 N	87 18 W	702	00
AKUMAL SEE ACUMAL
ALACRÁN. ARRECIFE	REEF	22 24 N	89 42 W	702	02
ALACRANES SEE LOS ALACRANES	POPL	21 35 N	98 08 W	702	00
ALACRANES SEE LOS ALACRANES	POPL	26 03 N	98 08 W	702	00
ALACRANES. ARRECIFE SEE ALACRÁN. ARRECIFE
ALACRANES. CERRO	REEF	22 24 N	89 42 W	702	02
ALACRANES. ISLAS DE LOS SEE ALACRÁN. ARRECIFE	REEF	22 24 N	89 42 W	702	00
ALACRAN REEF SEE ALACRÁN. ARRECIFE	REEF	22 24 N	89 42 W	702	00
ALAHUISTLÁN	POPL	18 34 N	100 02 W	702	01
ALAHUISTLÁN. RÍO	STRM	18 19 N	100 24 W	702	01
ALAHUIXTLAN SEE ALAHUISTLÁN	POPL	18 34 N	100 02 W	702	00
ALAHUIXTLAN. RÍO SEE ALAHUISTLÁN. RÍO	STRM	18 19 N	100 24 W	702	00
ALALAHY. CERRO	MT	26 49 N	109 20 W	702	02
ALAMAR. CERRO	MT	32 02 N	115 48 W	702	02
ALAMAR. RÍO	STRM	23 50 N	99 24 W	702	02
ALAMAR. RÍO SEE TECATE. RÍO	STRM	32 34 N	116 47 W	702	00
ALAMBIGUE	POPL	19 53 N	98 26 W	702	01
ALAMBIGUE SEE EL ALAMBIGUE	POPL	29 05 N	105 07 W	702	00
ALAMBRE SEE EL ALAMBRE DE HACIENDAS	POPL	21 46 N	105 15 W	702	00
ALAMEDA	POPL	19 31 N	99 19 W	702	02
ALAMEDA SEE LA ALAMEDA	POPL	21 02 N	100 27 W	702	00
ALAMEDA	POPL	22 26 N	101 28 W	702	02
ALAMEDA SEE ALMADA	POPL	25 36 N	103 25 W	702	00
ALAMEDA SEE LA ALAMEDA	POPL	27 36 N	101 29 W	702	00
ALAMEDA	RNCH	29 34 N	111 30 W	702	02
ALAMEDA	RNCH	29 44 N	110 15 W	702	02
ALAMEDA	RNCH	29 54 N	110 45 W	702	02
ALAMEDA. CARÓN	STRM	28 07 N	101 54 W	702	02
ALAMEDITA	POPL	29 47 N	110 14 W	702	02
ALAMÉNOS. PICO DE LOS	MT	25 58 N	102 27 W	702	02
ALAMILLO	POPL	23 54 N	103 54 W	702	02
ALAMILLO	POPL	24 09 N	103 44 W	702	02
ALAMILLO	POPL	24 18 N	102 46 W	702	02
ALAMILLO SEE ALAMILLOS	POPL	25 01 N	105 20 W	702	00

	POPL	25 31 N	105 41 W	702	02
ALAMILLO	POPL	25 47 N	106 10 W	702	02
ALAMILLO	POPL	27 59 N	100 34 W	702	00
ALAMILLO	POPL	28 26 N	107 44 W	702	02
ALAMILLO SEE SAN JOSÉ ALAMILLO	POPL	28 48 N	106 09 W	702	00
ALAMILLO SEE EL ALAMILLO	POPL	28 49 N	106 09 W	702	00
ALAMILLO	POPL	29 29 N	107 17 W	702	02
ALAMILLO	POPL	31 02 N	110 35 W	702	02
ALAMILLO	RSTA	24 09 N	102 24 W	702	00
ALAMILLO, CERRO DE	MT	29 50 N	107 00 W	702	02
ALAMILLO, PUERTO DEL	PASS	29 30 N	107 15 W	702	02
ALAMILLOS	POPL	25 01 N	105 20 W	702	02
ALAMILLOS	POPL	27 59 N	100 34 W	702	02
ALAMITO	POPL	21 28 N	102 35 W	702	01
ALAMITO SEE ALAMITOS	POPL	21 45 N	100 05 W	702	00
ALAMITO	POPL	22 44 N	99 39 W	702	02
ALAMITO SEE ALAMITOS	POPL	22 59 N	98 31 W	702	00
ALAMITO	POPL	24 57 N	103 54 W	702	02
ALAMITO	POPL	25 20 N	108 29 W	702	02
ALAMITO	POPL	27 02 N	100 49 W	702	02
ALAMITO SEE EL ALAMITO	POPL	28 08 N	107 32 W	702	00
ALAMITO	POPL	28 16 N	106 11 W	702	02
ALAMITO	POPL	29 12 N	110 52 W	702	02
ALAMITO	POPL	29 14 N	110 52 W	702	02
ALAMITO	POPL	30 16 N	108 08 W	702	02
ALAMITO	POPL	30 25 N	111 31 W	702	02
ALAMITO	POPL	32 29 N	116 02 W	702	02
ALAMITO, ARROYO DEL	STRM	30 17 N	108 02 W	702	02
ALAMITO, CERRO DE	MT	30 27 N	111 34 W	702	02
ALAMITO, SIERRA DEL	MT	27 42 N	105 53 W	702	02
ALAMITO DE LOS FRESNOS, CERRO	MT	29 39 N	107 08 W	702	02
ALAMITOS	POPL	21 45 N	100 05 W	702	01
ALAMITOS	POPL	21 57 N	100 13 W	702	01
ALAMITOS	POPL	22 59 N	98 31 W	702	02
ALAMITOS	POPL	26 02 N	107 21 W	702	02
ALAMITOS SEE EL ALAMITO	POPL	27 07 N	106 42 W	702	00
ALAMITOS	POPL	27 19 N	106 18 W	702	02

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 757 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.