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NXS-GRX-MEX · Central America · Regions

San Luis Potosi

First-level unit, Mexico: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 32 first-level units
Page GRX-MEX-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO MEX / MXStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
2,943,599
people (GHSL 2025)
61,288 km²
area
2.3%
of Mexico
59
units inside

01Map

Inside San Luis Potosi

The 59 ADM2 units of San Luis Potosi.

FIG 1 · 59 units inside San Luis Potosi
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

2,943,599

2.3% of Mexico.

People · WorldPop 2025

2,890,577

-2% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

ప్రాంతం

61,288 km²

48 people per km².

కోడ్

MX-SLP

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

107

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.0% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

San Luis Potosi in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

224%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

59 units inside San Luis Potosi

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Ahualulco – 19,835 15,698 777.13 26 0.7% 0
Alaquines – 9,659 6,550 588.06 16 0.3% 0
Aquismón – 58,189 49,684 796.31 73 2% 0
Armadillo de los Infante – 5,366 4,102 624.45 9 0.2% 0
Axtla de Terrazas – 45,937 32,559 191.7 240 1.6% 0
Cárdenas – 22,427 15,559 391.58 57 0.8% 0
Catorce – 11,504 8,526 1,949.44 6 0.4% 0
Cedral – 22,464 20,041 1,171.9 19 0.8% 0
Cerritos – 26,106 22,299 965.16 27 0.9% 0
Cerro de San Pedro – 2,716 3,430 123.26 22 0.1% 0
Charcas – 25,664 21,909 2,161.98 12 0.9% 0
Ciudad del Maíz – 37,690 26,491 3,158.39 12 1.3% 0
Ciudad Fernández – 18,433 17,402 519.2 36 0.6% 0
Ciudad Valles – 182,259 184,952 2,430.28 75 6.2% 0
Coxcatlán – 18,033 12,208 91.32 197 0.6% 0
Ebano – 45,534 32,053 700.34 65 1.5% 107
El Higo – 11,713 10,117 391.6 30 0.4% 0
El Naranjo – 25,184 21,243 823.32 31 0.9% 0
Guadalcázar – 29,455 20,685 3,755.09 8 1% 0
Huehuetlán – 23,771 16,868 71.92 331 0.8% 0
Lagunillas – 7,267 5,210 537.11 14 0.2% 0
Matehuala – 93,775 93,556 1,304.69 72 3.2% 0
Matlapa – 37,481 25,335 117.41 319 1.3% 0
Mexquitic de Carmona – 78,214 76,734 879.14 89 2.6% 0
Moctezuma – 22,365 16,814 1,295.56 17 0.8% 0
Rayón – 20,040 13,528 788.76 25 0.7% 0
Rioverde – 148,023 133,309 3,071.99 48 5% 0
Salinas – 36,745 30,894 1,734.36 21 1.2% 0
San Antonio – 12,432 8,276 94.9 131 0.4% 0
San Ciro de Acosta – 13,033 10,235 640.96 20 0.4% 0
San Luis Potosí – 899,465 1,109,322 1,484.84 606 30.4% 0
San Martín Chalchicuautla – 33,237 20,909 414.24 80 1.1% 0
San Nicolás Tolentino – 4,351 2,661 694.38 6 0.1% 0
San Vicente Tancuayalab – 27,818 20,071 520.25 53 0.9% 0
Santa Catarina – 12,713 11,191 642.33 20 0.4% 0
Santa María del Río – 49,283 36,047 1,705.62 29 1.7% 0
Santo Domingo – 13,878 8,370 4,331.91 3 0.5% 0
Soledad de Graciano Sánchez – 182,245 255,299 306.21 595 6.2% 0
Tamasopo – 32,190 27,425 1,326.06 24 1.1% 0
Tamazunchale – 117,981 83,807 354.57 333 4% 0
Tampacán – 12,976 8,316 187.73 69 0.4% 0
Tampamolón Corona – 12,020 8,524 263.64 46 0.4% 0
Tamuín – 50,833 35,987 1,847.84 28 1.7% 0
Tancanhuitz – 19,304 14,522 137.39 141 0.7% 0
Tanlajás – 25,153 17,697 375.72 67 0.9% 0
Tanquián de Escobedo – 18,700 12,078 143.66 130 0.6% 0
Tierra Nueva – 9,461 5,839 479.28 20 0.3% 0
Vanegas – 10,173 6,564 2,806.1 4 0.3% 0
Venado – 16,709 12,593 1,304.74 13 0.6% 0
Villa de Arista – 19,011 18,212 588.37 32 0.6% 0
Villa de Arriaga – 19,842 18,550 880.31 23 0.7% 0
Villa de Guadalupe – 12,256 8,392 1,916.94 6 0.4% 0
Villa de la Paz – 25,352 17,002 144.3 176 0.9% 0
Villa de Ramos – 47,529 38,842 2,497.81 19 1.6% 0
Villa de Reyes – 58,646 55,886 1,022.52 57 2% 0
Villa Hidalgo – 19,311 15,906 1,500.05 13 0.7% 0
Villa Juárez – 12,048 9,958 641.69 19 0.4% 0
Xilitla – 55,407 40,301 399.59 139 1.9% 0
Zaragoza – 26,107 24,159 615.76 42 0.9% 0
05బహిర్గతం

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
267.7 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
1,369.1 H3 cells
Railways
796.1 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
93.6 H3 cells
06ప్రమాదం

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for San Luis Potosi publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Mexico.
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07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08మూలాలు

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MEX ADM1, source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MEX ADM2, source: World Bank, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
దేశాలు
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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