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See also:LEON, or LEON DE See also:LAS ALDAMAS , a See also:city of the See also:state of See also:Guanajuato, See also:Mexico, 209 M . N.W. of the federal See also:capital and 30 M . W. by N. of the city of Guanajuato . Pop . (1895) 90,978; (1900) 62,623, See also:Leon ranking See also:fourth in the latter See also:year among the cities of Mexico . The Mexican Central gives it railway connexion with the See also:national capital and other prominent cities of the See also:Republic . Leon stands in a fertile See also:plain on the See also:banks of the Turbio, a tributary of the Rio Grande de See also:Lerma, at an See also:elevation of 5862 ft. above See also:sea-level and in the midst of very attractive surroundings . The See also: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 See also:life as well ascathedral and a See also: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 See also:saddlery and other See also:leather See also:work, See also:gold and See also:silver embroideries, See also:cotton and woollen goods, especially rebozos (See also:long shawls), See also:soap and See also:cutlery . There are also tanneries and See also:flour See also:mills . The city has a considerable See also:trade in See also:wheat and flour . The first See also:settlement of Leon occurred in 1552, but its formal See also:foundation was in 1576, and it did not reach the dignity of a city until 1836 . damage to See also:property, as in the See also:great See also:flood of 1889 . |
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