Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, Monterrey is a major business and industrial hub in North America, and the most populous city in northern Mexico.

Dec 7, 2024 · Monterrey, city, capital of Nuevo Leon estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It sprawls over the semiarid floodplain of the Santa Catarina River, and parts of the city are set against the scenic backdrop of Mount Silla. Monterrey is the heart of one of Mexico’s largest urban agglomerations.

The industrial city of Monterrey is reigned over by the mighty Cerro de Silla, a mountain that galvanizes adventurers with its steep hiking trails. Within the city, an 18th-century neighborhood impresses with its architecture and harbors what’s hailed as Mexico’s most beautiful bookshop.

Cosmopolitan Monterrey is Mexico’s third-largest city, second-largest industrial center and número uno in per-capita income. This economic powerhouse has a strong entrepreneurial ethos, humming cultural scene, vibrant universities and an urban hipster nightlife scene.

Sep 15, 2024 · Monterrey is one of Mexico's largest cities and offers plenty of things to do from boat rides to exploring caves. Here are our top picks on what to do.

Dec 26, 2023 · Although one of Mexico's most industrialized cities (it's also the wealthiest and most westernized) Monterrey boasts one of the country's most attractive large city settings.

Jun 16, 2024 · Monterrey Mexico: The Essential Traveler’s Handbook. Monterrey Mexico, in the State of Nuevo Leon, is known as “The City of the Mountains.” Apart from being Mexico’s third largest metropolitan city, it boasts several attractions linked to its history, industrial production, and surrounding nature.

Discover Monterrey, Mexico. Monterrey—Mexico’s third largest city and capital city of the state of Nuevo Leon—is set in the spectacular Sierra Madre mountain region of north-west Mexico. Three million residents populate Monterrey’s metropolitan area and when you visit here, you realize that Monterrey is more like the United States and ...

May 24, 2022 · Monterrey is the third largest city in Mexico and the capital of the state of Nuevo León. It is the commercial, industrial, educational, and transportation hub of northern Mexico, also third in economic importance after Mexico City and Mexico State.

Mar 2, 2022 · Monterrey is the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental. Monterrey lies some 222 km (138 miles) west of the US border at Reynosa/McAllen (Texas), 225 km (140 miles) south of the US border at Laredo, Texas, and about 910 km north of Mexico City.