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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.

  • p. 16 …N 105 05 W 702 01 AGUA DULCE POPL 18 08 N 94 08 W 702…
  • p. 17 AGUA DULCE AGUA DULCE AGUA DULCE AGUA DULCE AGUA DULCE AGUA DULCE AGUA DULCE AGUA DULCE…
  • p. 114 …N 101 13 W 702 02 CHARCO DULCE POPL 25 51 N 97 13 W 702…
  • p. 174 …DULCE NOMBRE POPL 25 44 N 106 43 W 702 02 DULCE NOMBRES SEE DULCE NOMBRE…
  • p. 289 …107 17 W 702 00 JOBITO DULCE SEE JOBO DULCE POPL 16 28 N 93 24…
  • p. 310 …54 W 702 01 LA DULCE SEE NORIA LA DULCE POPL 22 59 N 102 11…
  • p. 421 …NANCHE DULCE SEE NANCHE POPL 15 47 N 96 27 W 702 00 NANCHE DULCE POPL…
  • p. 423 …N 98 31 W 702 02 NARANJO DULCE POPL 20 51 N 97 56 W 702…
  • p. 430 …102 43 W 702 00 NORIA LA DULCE POPL 22 59 N 102 11 W 702…
  • p. 437 …94 52 W 702 01 OJITOS, AGUA DULCE MT 28 29 N 105 47 W 702…
  • p. 454 …02 PALO DULCE POPL 17 25 N 95 04 W 702 01 PALO DULCE POPL 18…
  • p. 456 …N 102 09 W 702 01 PALOS DULCES POPL 24 20 N 106 55 W 702…
  • p. 610 …43 W 702 01 SAN SEBASTIÁN RIO DULCE POPL 16 49 N 97 05 W 702…

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SAN RAFAEL	POPL	30 17 N	110 44 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL	POPL	31 15 N	111 40 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL	RSTA	22 27 N	101 00 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, BAHÍA DE	BAY	28 30 N	113 04 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, GOCA	ENTR	25 03 N	97 31 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, CERRO	HILL	22 45 N	103 50 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, CERRO	MT	24 18 N	106 06 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, CERRO	MT	27 53 N	110 55 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, DERRAMADERO	STRM	24 29 N	107 31 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, LOMA	MT	19 24 N	98 32 W	702	01
SAN RAFAEL, PICOS DE	MTS	28 05 N	111 12 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, RÍO SEE CARRIZAL, RÍO DEL	STRM	25 03 N	97 46 W	702	00
SAN RAFAEL, RÍO	STRM	30 58 N	116 16 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, VALLE	VAL	31 02 N	116 12 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, VALLE	VAL	31 52 N	116 12 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL, VALLE DE SEE SAN RAFAEL, VALLE	VAL	31 52 N	116 12 W	702	00
SAN RAFAEL, CALERÍA	POPL	18 56 N	96 56 W	702	01
SAN RAFAEL DE AMOLES	POPL	25 16 N	104 36 W	702	00
SAN RAFAEL DE BUSTAMANTE	POPL	26 54 N	99 29 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL DE BUSTAMENTE SEE SAN RAFAEL DE BUSTAMANTE	POPL	26 54 N	99 29 W	702	00
SAN RAFAEL DE CABREA	POPL	18 10 N	101 46 W	702	01
SAN RAFAEL DE GONZALEZ SARABIA	POPL	24 19 N	104 46 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL DE GONZALEZ SARAVIA SEE SAN RAFAEL DE GONZALEZ SARABIA	POPL	24 19 N	104 46 W	702	00
SAN RAFAEL DE JICORICA	POPL	25 23 N	104 47 W	702	00
SAN RAFAEL DEL AGOSTADERO	POPL	26 95 N	106 26 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL DE LA LAGUNA	POPL	28 17 N	107 07 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL DE LAS MANZANAS	POPL	28 52 N	107 46 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL DEL CAMPO	POPL	22 07 N	102 01 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL DEL LLANO	POPL	25 14 N	99 43 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL DE LOS BATRES	POPL	24 12 N	104 45 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL DE SAN JERÓNIMO	POPL	18 31 N	101 19 W	702	02
SAN RAFAEL DE SAN PABLO	POPL	23 51 N	100 39 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.