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LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 443 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LEON, or LEON DE 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 fourth in the latter year among the cities of
Mexico
 . The Mexican Central gives it railway connexion with the 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
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 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 saddlery and other leather
work
 , gold and silver embroideries,
cotton
  and woollen goods, especially rebozos (long shawls), soap and cutlery. There are also tanneries and 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 property, as in the
great
  flood of 1889. Leon is
essentially a manufacturing and commercial city; it has a


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