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"center" bgcolor="#ccccff" colspan="3"Location
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"center" bgcolor="#ccccff" colspan="3"Statistics
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"left" valign="top"Capital
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"2" valign="top" Monterrey
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"left" valign="top"Area
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"2" valign="top"64,924 Km&2 <br> Ranked 13th
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"left" valign="top"Population<br><small>(2000 census)</small>
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"2" valign="top"3,826,240<br> Ranked 9th
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"left" valign="top" Governor <br><small>(2003-2009)</small>
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"2" valign="top" Natividad González Parás (PRI/PVEM)
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"left" valign="top" Federal Deputies
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"2" valign="top": 1
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"left" valign="top" Federal Senators
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"2" valign="top"PAN :2<br>PRI: 1
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"left" valign="top" ISO 3166-2 <br><small>Postal abbr</small>
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"2" valign="top"MX-NLE<br>NL
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In the
6 July 2003 Gubernatorial election, ''Alianza Ciudadana'' – an electoral alliance between the
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the
Green Ecological Party Of Mexico (PVEM) – regained control of the state from
President Fox 's party
National Action Party (PAN). The new governor,
José Natividad González Parás of the PRI, was sworn in on
4 October 2003 for a period of six years.
Chosen directly by the Governor except for the General Comptroller and the State General Attorney, which are elected by Congress from a list of names provided by the Governor.
The State has a unicameral chamber. The LXX
Congress Of Nuevo León is composed of 42
Deputies , 26 of them chosen by
First-past-the-post electoral districts and 16 of them by
Proportional Representation on a party-list basis. The parties represented are the PRI with twenty-four (20
Fpp and 4
Pr ), the PAN with eleven (6 & 5), the
Partido Del Trabajo (PT) with three (0 & 3), the PVEM with two (0 & 2), the
Party Of The Democratic Revolution (PRD) with one (0 & 1), and one independent (who was a member of
Convergencia at the time of the election). The president of the permanent commission is Juan Manuel Parás of the PRI.
Judicial power rests in the
Superior Court Of Justice Of Nuevo León , led by Minister
Jorge Luis Mancillas .
Official recognition is given by the State Electoral Commission to those parties getting more than 1.5% of the votes in the last election (Art.40 of the State Electoral Law), which are the ones represented in Congress.
Nuevo León has an extreme climate, and there is very little rainfall throughout the year. The territory covers 64,924 mountain range affects in an important way the lay of the land forming the Galeana and Doctor Arroyo plateaus, the Iguana, Picachos, Papagayos, and Santa Clara mountain ranges, and the Pilón, Ascensión, and Río Blanco valleys. As for hydrography, the
San Juan River supplies the El Cuchillo dam, which provides water for
Monterrey and the metropolitan area. There are also the Cerro Prieto, La Boca, Vaquerías, Nogalitos, and Agualeguas dams.
Laguna De Labradores is a major lake in Nuevo León, and
Pozo Del Gavilán is a natural well. Both are located in the
Galeana municipality. The flora of the region includes brush and pastures in the low regions, and pine and oak trees in the mountains. The fauna includes
Black Bear s,
Mountain Lions ,
Javelinas ,
Fox es,
Coyote s, and
White-tailed Deer , along with smaller species.
Nuevo León is divided into 51 municipalities ''(
Municipios )''. See
Municipalities Of Nuevo León .
