1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of San Luis Potosí, Mexico before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for San Luis Potosí—722,772, America/Monterrey, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of the State of San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind San Luis Potosí is GeoNames ID 3985606. Its recorded administrative path is San Luis Potosi → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. San Luis Potosí occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, San Luis Potosí ranks 766 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 23; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 114. Its 722,772 population value is 0.89 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 0.89 times the 816,326 regional median. San Luis Potosí sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Mexico entries. San Luis Potosí's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
San Luis Potosí's three nearest other atlas coordinates are León de Los Aldama at 136.138 km with 1,579,803 recorded people; Aguascalientes City at 138.629 km with 722,250 recorded people; Santiago de Querétaro at 184.127 km with 1,594,212 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 47.989 km. Compared with León de Los Aldama, San Luis Potosí's recorded population is 0.46 times as large. Against San Luis Potosí, León de Los Aldama follows Leon → Guanajuato → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses America/Mexico_City instead of America/Monterrey, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above San Luis Potosí's. Against San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes City follows Aguascalientes → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses America/Mexico_City instead of America/Monterrey, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below San Luis Potosí's. Against San Luis Potosí, Santiago de Querétaro follows Queretaro → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses America/Mexico_City instead of America/Monterrey, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above San Luis Potosí's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 839 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. San Luis Potosí's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3985606, the coordinate pair 22.1523 / 100.9714, country rank 23 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3998655 at 136.138 km bind San Luis Potosí to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
San Luis Potosí's reference point is 22.1523° north and 100.9714° west. The IANA identifier America/Monterrey is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. San Luis Potosí's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. San Luis Potosí's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. San Luis Potosí's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for San Luis Potosí, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
San Luis Potosí's closest other entries in this atlas are León de Los Aldama (136.138 km), Aguascalientes City (138.629 km), Santiago de Querétaro (184.127 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.