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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	16 34 N	98 07 W	702	01
ALTO DE LAS MESAS	POPL	17 03 N	99 35 W	702	01
ALTO DEL CAMARÓN	POPL	19 37 N	96 43 W	702	00
ALTO DEL LUCERO SEE ALTO LUCERO	POPL	21 46 N	98 25 W	702	02
ALTO DEL OJITE	POPL	24 N	93 12 W	702	01
ALTO DE OJITE SEE ALTO DEL OJITE	POPL	27 46 N	98 25 W	702	00
ALTO DE SAN JOSÉ, CERRO	MT	24 13 N	105 35 W	702	02
ALTO DE TECOLOTE SEE TECOLOTE, ALTO DEL	MT	25 48 N	104 54 W	702	00
ALTO DE TÍO DIEGO	POPL	19 37 N	96 45 W	702	01
ALTO LIMPIO	POPL	26 18 N	99 07 W	702	02
ALTO LUCERO	POPL	19 37 N	96 43 W	702	01
ALTO MAGUEYITOS	SITE	27 33 N	100 18 W	702	02
ALTO MORALES	POPL	29 26 N	110 25 W	702	02
ALTÓN, LAGUNA	INTL	18 31 N	89 08 W	702	01
ALTO PIEDRA	POPL	25 50 N	99 03 W	702	02
ALTOS	POPL	27 03 N	100 24 W	702	02
ALTO SAN PEDRO SEE SAN PEDRO EL ALTO	POPL	16 01 N	96 28 W	702	00
ALTOS DE IBARRA	POPL	21 19 N	101 29 W	702	01
ALTOS DE IBARRA	POPL	21 26 N	101 34 W	702	01
ALTO SOYATAL SEE SOYATAL	POPL	21 33 N	102 30 W	702	00
ALTOTOCO, RÍO	STRM	18 40 N	96 54 W	702	01
ALTOTONGA	POPL	19 46 N	97 14 W	702	01
ALTÚ	SITE	20 05 N	88 59 W	702	01
ALTURA	POPL	27 40 N	109 16 W	702	02
ALTZAYANCA SEE ACTLZAYANCA DE HIDALGO	POPL	19 26 N	97 47 W	702	00
ALUMBRES	POPL	20 42 N	98 41 W	702	01
ALVARADITO	POPL	17 50 N	93 01 W	702	01
ALVARADO	POPL	18 46 N	95 46 W	702	01
ALVARADO	POPL	20 38 N	100 26 W	702	01
ALVARADO	RSTA	19 40 N	100 24 W	702	01
ALVARADO, BARRA DE	BAR	18 47 N	95 41 W	702	01
ALVARADO, BOQUILLA DE	STRM	29 53 N	106 45 W	702	02
ALVARADO, LAGUNA SEE ALVARADO, LAGUNA DE	LAGN	18 45 N	95 50 W	702	00
ALVARADO, LAGUNA DE	LAGN	18 45 N	95 50 W	702	01

ALVAREJO	POPL	18 36 N	100 34 W	702	02
ALVARENO SEE EL ALVARENO	RSTA	20 19 N	102 26 W	702	00
ALVARES	POPL	22 12 N	100 38 W	702	02
ALVARES, LOMA	HILL	32 27 N	116 59 W	702	02
ALVAREZ SEE ALVAREZ DE LA REFORMA	POPL	18 30 N	101 42 W	702	00
ALVAREZ	POPL	22 03 N	100 37 W	702	02
ALVAREZ SEE LOS ÁLVAREZ	POPL	27 38 N	105 13 W	702	00
ALVAREZ	RSTA	19 57 N	100 48 W	702	01
ALVAREZ	RSTA	22 02 N	100 37 W	702	02
ÁLVAREZ DE LA REFORMA	POPL	18 30 N	101 42 W	702	01
ÁLVARO	POPL	17 52 N	94 41 W	702	01
ÁLVARO DÍAZ	POPL	17 37 N	94 53 W	702	01
ALVARO OBREGON SEE
SAN JOSE ITURBIDE	POPL	21 00 N	100 23 W	702	00
ALVARO OBREGÓN SEE VILLA OBREGÓN	POPL	19 21 N	99 12 W	702	00
ÁLVARO OBREGÓN	POPL	14 55 N	92 23 W	702	02
ÁLVARO OBREGÓN	POPL	18 18 N	88 37 W	702	01
ÁLVARO OBREGÓN SEE FRONTERA	POPL	18 32 N	92 38 W	702	00
ÁLVARO OBREGÓN	POPL	19 50 N	101 05 W	702	01
ÁLVARO OBREGÓN	POPL	22 48 N	99 00 W	702	02
ALVIA	POPL	25 40 N	103 21 W	702	02
ALVIA	POPL	25 51 N	103 11 W	702	02
ALVIÓN SEE ALBIÓN	POPL	15 01 N	92 18 W	702	00
ALZADA	RSTA	19 16 N	101 32 W	702	01
ALZALAN SEE ATZALAN	POPL	19 48 N	97 13 W	702	00
ALZAYACÁN SEE
ACTLZAYANCA DE HIDALGO	POPL	19 26 N	97 47 W	702	00
ALZAYANCA DE HIDALGO	POPL	19 26 N	97 47 W	702	00
AMA, RIO SEE AMAJAC, RIO	STRM	21 15 N	98 46 W	702	00
AMACOITE, ARROYO	STRM	17 32 N	93 30 W	702	01
AMACUECA	POPL	20 01 N	103 37 W	702	02
AMACUECA	RSTA	19 59 N	103 36 W	702	01
AMACULÍ	POPL	24 36 N	106 36 W	702	02
AMACULI RANCH SEE AMACULÍ	POPL	24 36 N	106 36 W	702	00
AMACUZAC	POPL	18 35 N	99 21 W	702	01
AMACUZAC, RIO	STRM	17 53 N	99 12 W	702	01
AMADO SEE SAN AMADO	POPL	20 53 N	89 28 W	702	00

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