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100
This municipo includes Estadio BBVA, which hosted World Cup tournaments and is home to the Rayados.
Guadalupe
100
What direction are Santa Catarina and San Pedro from Monterrey?
West
100
Name a municipo that has a economy based on tourisim.
Apodaca, Guadalupe, San Nicolás, Escobedo, Juárez, García, or Santiago
100
The Spanish first settled Nuevo León in the late part of this century.
1500s
100
Name a municipo that has a population fewer than 4,000 people.
Iturbide, Villaldama, or Bustamante
200
Cola de Caballo (Horsetail Falls) and its Pueblo Mágico status make this municipo a popular day trip from Monterrey.
Santiago
200
What direction is Santiago from Monterrey?
South or Southeast
200
Name a municipio that has an economy based on agriculture.
Linares, Montemorelos, Anáhuac, Galeana, Doctor Arroyo, or Aramberri
200
Name a municipo that was founded in the 1500s.
Apodaca (1585), García (1583), Salinas Victoria (1586), and San Nicolás de los Garza (settled 1596, formally founded 1634)
200
This municipio has the largest land area in all of Nuevo León, over 7,000 km².
Galeana
300
Visitors ride a cable car to reach the famous caves in this municipio west of Monterrey.
García
300
Apodaca, Guadalupe, and García are in this region of Nuevo Leon, which includes the metro area.
Centro
300
Linares and Montemorelos are known for growing this fruit.
Oranges (citrus)
300
Which municipo is known as the “World Capital of the Orange” and hosts the Feria de la Naranja is held every November?
Montemorelos
300
This municipio is called “El Jardín de Nuevo León.”
Bustamante
400
This municipio touches the U.S. border and comes from the Nahuatl language.
Anáhuac
400
Name one of the municipos from this region.
400
Big metro municipios like Guadalupe and San Nicolás rely on what to make money?
stores, offices, commerce, services, businesses
400
Which municipo has a park called "La Turbina"?
Sabinas Hidalgo
400
During the Mexican Revolution in 1915, this municipio located in the Sur region of Nuevo Leon was the capital of Mexico for 45 days.
Doctor Arroyo
500
First settled in 1637, this town was once nicknamed the “Broom Capital” of Mexico.
Cadereyta Jiménez
500
Galeana, Aramberri, Doctor Arroyo, and Iturbide are in this region.
South (Sur)
500
Give two reasons a small rural municipio might have fewer jobs than a metro one.
Example answers: farther from big employers or smaller population
500
Which municipo was founded the latest (in the 1900s)?
Anáhuac
500
A legendary norteño band, Los Cadetes de ____, is named for this citrus-region municipio.
Linares