Monterrey

This article is about the Mexican city; for other uses, see Monterrey (disambiguation).

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Monterrey is the capital city of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, well known for its industries, particularly beer, finance, glass, and steel.

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Mexican - Nuevo León

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Carta Blanca, Tecate, Bohemia, Sol, Casta, Indio, XX (Dos Equis), and Nochebuena are examples of the beers produced in the city by FEMSA group. Vitro figures as one of the most important glass factories in North America. Cemex, the world wide conglomerate of cement, concrete, and building materials, has its headquarters there, as well as Banorte, the only large Mexican bank controlled by Mexicans. The industry used to be led by the "Compañía Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey", popularly known as Fundidora, which went broke in the mid-1980s. Today, the remains of the Fundidora factory have been transformed into the beautiful Fundidora Park, which hosts a Champ Car World Championship race once a year.

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Carta Blanca - Tecate - Bohemia - Sol - Casta - Indio - Dos Equis - Nochebuena - FEMSA group - Vitro - Cemex - Banorte - Compañía Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey - Fundidora Park - Champ Car

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Monterrey is located in northeastern Mexico, and has about 1.1 million inhabitants, although the Greater Monterrey metropolitan area (San Pedro Garza García, San Nicolás de los Garza, Apodaca, Guadalupe, Escobedo, Santa Catarina, Garcia, and Juarez) add another 2.7 million distributed on 572.8 km² making Monterrey's metropolitan area the third most populous in Mexico but the second largest urban area.

Related Topics:
San Pedro Garza García - San Nicolás de los Garza - Apodaca - Guadalupe - Escobedo - Santa Catarina

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