San Luis Potosí is the name of both a state in Mexico and that state's capital city. This article is about the state. For the city, see San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí.

Estado de San Luis Potosí
Location
Statistics
Capital	San Luis Potosí
Area	63,068 km² Ranked 15th
Population (2000 census)	2,296,360 Ranked 16th
Governor (2003-2009)	Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Fraga (PAN)
Federal Deputies	PAN: 4 PRI/PVEM: 3
Federal Senators	PAN: 2 PRI: 1
ISO 3166-2 Postal abbr.	MX-SLP S.L.P.

The Mexican state of San Luis Potosí has an area of 62,848 km². It is in the north-central part of the republic, bordered by the Mexican states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Zacatecas. In 2003, the estimated population was 2,353,000 people.

The native peoples of the state include the Huastec and Chichimec.

In addition to the state capital San Luis Potosí, the state's largest cities include Ciudad Valles, Matehuala, and Río Verde.

Municipalities

San Luis Potosí is divided into 58 municipios (municipalities). For a list, see municipalities of San Luis Potosí.

External links

• San Luis Potosí state government (in Spanish)
• Churches of San Luis Potosí
• Towns, cities, and postal codes in San Luis Potosí (in Spanish)
• Tourism in San Luis Potosí

	States of Mexico
Aguascalientes | Baja California | Baja California Sur | Campeche | Chiapas | Chihuahua | Coahuila | Colima | Durango | Guanajuato | Guerrero | Hidalgo | Jalisco | México | Michoacán | Morelos | Nayarit | Nuevo León | Oaxaca | Puebla | Querétaro | Quintana Roo | San Luis Potosí | Sinaloa | Sonora | Tabasco | Tamaulipas | Tlaxcala | Veracruz | Yucatán | Zacatecas
Federal District: Mexican Federal District

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