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LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 443 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEON, or LEON DE
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LAS ALDAMAS
  , a city of the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, 209 M . N.W. of the federal capital and 30 M . W. by N. of the city of Guanajuato . Pop . (1895) 90,978; (1900) 62,623, Leon ranking
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fourth in the latter
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year among the cities of Mexico . The Mexican Central gives it railway connexion with the
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national capital and other prominent cities of the Republic . Leon stands in a fertile plain on the banks of the Turbio, a tributary of the Rio Grande de Lerma, at an
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elevation of 5862 ft. above sea-level and in the midst of very attractive surroundings . The country about Leon is considered to be one of the richest cereal-producing districts of Mexico . The city itself is subject to disastrous floods, sometimes leading to loss of
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life as well ascathedral and a theatre, the latter one of the largest and finest in the republic . The city is regularly built, with wide streets and numerous shady parks and gardens . It manufactures
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saddlery and other leather
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work, gold and
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silver embroideries, cotton and woollen goods, especially rebozos (long shawls),
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soap and cutlery . There are also tanneries and
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flour mills .

The city has a considerable

trade in wheat and flour . The first settlement of Leon occurred in 1552, but its formal foundation was in 1576, and it did not reach the dignity of a city until 1836 . damage to
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property, as in the
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great flood of 1889 .

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