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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.
“Díaz”34 pages
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SPRG spring(s) TERR territory STAT state UPLD upland, plateau STR strait VAL valley STRM stream VOLC volcano SWMP swamp WELL well Latitude and longitude.--Coordinates, in the third and fourth columns, are for finding purposes only. They were read to the nearest minute, but for some areas accurate maps are not available so locations cannot be exact. Administrative division. The number in the fifth column, 702, is the area number assigned to Mexico. Locational reference.--The number in the last column indicates a map where the feature may be located by its standard name or a recognizable variant of its standard name, as follows: 01 Carta de la República Mexicana, Comité Coordinador del Levantamiento de la Republica Mexicana, Tacubaya, D.F., Mexico, 1949; scale 1:500,000. 02 Carta General de la República Mexicana, Secretaría de Agricultura y Fomento, Tacubaya, D.F., Mexico, 1929-45; scale 1:500,000. The code 00 is used for cross-references and for standard names to be found only on references other than those listed above. ## Glossary of generic terms The following terms occur in the standard names listed in the gazetteer. Each of the meanings given applies in the case of one or more of the names. aguada sinkhole, lake altiplanicie arrecife(s) arroyo arroyo, stream bahía bay, cove, sound bajo shoal banco(s) bank(s) barra bar, entrance to lagoon barranca stream barrial mire boca(s) cove(s), bight, river mouth, entrance to lagoon, strait, channel bolsón inland basin boquilla stream mouth, stream brazo bay bufa mountain cabeza headland, shoal cabo cape caleta cove cañada stream canal canal, channel, strait cañón canyon, ravine, stream castillo fort cayo(s) key(s), island(s), shoal cenote sinkhole cerrito(s) mountain(s) cerro mountain, hill charco pond ciénaga, ciénega swamp cordón mountains crestón mountains cuchilla(s) mountain(s) cuesta ridge, mountains cuevas caverns cumbre(s) mountain(s) derramadero stream desierto desert embarcadero landing empalme railroad station ensenada bay, cove escollos rocks
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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.