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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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estación railroad station

estacion railroad station

estado state

estero stream, channel, strait, estuary, inlet,

lagoon, bay, cove

estrecho strait

fondeadero anchorage

golfo gulf

isla(s) island(s), key, peninsula

islote islet

istmo isthmus

lago lake

laguna(s) lagoon, lake(s), intermittent lake, marsh,

channel, bay

lagunita lake

llano(s) plain(s)

loma(s) mountain(s), hill(s)

mar lagoon

marismas marshes

mesa mesa, plateau, mountain

meseta plateau

mesilla plateau

monte mountain

morro headland, point, promontory, hill

municipio administrative division

nevado snow-capped mountain, peak

ojito spring

ojo(s), ojo de agua spring(s), well, pond

paso pass, strait, lagoon, entrance to lagoon

peña mountain

peñasco hill

península peninsula

picacho(s) mountain(s), hill(s)

pico(s) mountain(s)

piedra rock

planicie plains region

potrero pasture, valley

presa reservoir, lake

presón lake

puerto cove, bay, bight, pass

punta point, headland, mountain, hill

río river, stream, channel, lagoon

risco cliff

roca headland, cliff

ruinas ruins

salinas salt marsh

serranía(s) mountain range, mountainous region

sierra mountains

sierrita mountains

tanque tank, reservoir, well

territorio territory

tetillas mountains

vado ford

vaso lake bed

volcán volcano, hill, mountain

zanjón stream

## Reporting of errors

It is requested that all who use this gazetteer aid in its correction for future printings by reporting errors to the Board on Geographic Names, Interior Department Building, Washington 25, D. C. A statement of the source of the correct information will be helpful.

## Other gazetteers

The following publications may be useful as finding lists, though the names in them are not necessarily those approved by the Board as standard names:

1. Integración Territorial de los Estados Unidos Mexico Séptimo Censo General de Población 1950, Secretaría de Economía, Dirección General de Estadística, México, 1952. Location by administrative division.

2. American Geographical Society, Index to Map of Hispanic America 1:1,000,000, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1945.

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