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