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San Luis Potosi

Located in central Mexico, San Luis Potosi is roughly equidistant from Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. Founded in 1592, the city is known for its stunning, baroque architecture. San Luis Potosi city is Mexico’s 10th largest in size, with a population of 1,000,000.

San Luis Potosi has two 2 convention centers, and an arena that can hold up to 10,000 people. The largest convention center, the San Luis Potosi Convention Center, was inaugurated in 2009 with 29,000 square feet of event space. San Luis Potosi also has wide range of historic venues for events, including art centers, museums, university auditoriums and theaters. In terms of accommodation, San Luis Potosi has 3,259 hotel rooms with ratings between 3 and 5 stars.

San Luis Potosi offers thrilling opportunities as pre and post-event activities, such as visits to well preserved traditional villages, eco-tourism activities (hiking, camping, climbing, rappelling, swimming in lagoons) and interesting art museums. In recent years, San Luis Potosi has been the site of several major cinematographic productions, selected for the variety and beauty of its landscapes, unique architecture and authentic colonial traditions.

Ponciana Arriaga Airport, San Luis Potosi international airport, is located 18 miles north of the city, and it has 8 daily national flights and 3 daily flights to international destinations, including Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston.

Air Flight Connection

	DOMESTIC	INTERNATIONAL
Flight / Month
337	244	193

Passengers / Month
18,135	13,950	4,185

Connection Cities

MEXICO CITY
DALLAS

HOUSTON

Airlines

AEROMEXICO
AMERICAN EAGLE

AEROMAR
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES

Hotel Capability

10,885(rooms / night)

Convention Center Capability

286,776 (sqft)

Venues

Venue	sqft	Rooms	Website

CENTRO DE CONVENCIONES SAN LUIS POTOSI	126,730	•4 EXHIBITION AREA •12 SESSION AREAS	www.ccsanluispotosi.com
CENTRO CULTURAL UNIVERSITARIO BICENTENARIO	9,707	• 1 EXHIBITION AREA •13 SESSION AREAS	www.uaslp.mx
CENTRO POTOSINO DE CONVENCIONES		• 1 EXHIBITION AREA •8 SESSION AREAS	www.centrodeconvencionessanluis.com
EL DOMO SAN LUIS POTOSI		• 1 EXHIBITION AREA

CVB Contact

Contact	Mail	Telephone

Santiago Gonzalez Abreu	sgonzalez@visitasanluispotosi.com	(422) 238 5000

Cinthya de Santiago Guevara	cdesantiago@visitasanluispotosi.com	(422) 238 5214
Angelica Hernandez	ahernandez@visitasanluispotosi.com	(422) 238 5000
Gabriela Zarate	gzarate@visitasanluispotosi.com	(422) 238 5000

Website

www.visitasanluispotosi.com/occ

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Things to do

Xilitla, Surreal Dream

Natural wealth of Huasteca Potosina and surrealism co-exist in the Edward James' Garden. Adventure, coffee and tradition complete an unforgettable journey. Talikg about Xilita, San Luis Potosi, places in the mind words such as magic, art, surrealism, exuberance, adventure and coffee. It is not only about the place chosen by the English Edward James to create a Surreal Garden unique in the world, but also a Magic Town of Mexico, where hours elapse among deep blue skies, scent to coffee, and the whisper of waterfalls and rivers falling on fresh and transparent pools. There is no other place where nature and man have expressed their surreal side in such a harmonious manner than in Xilitla.

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Partying in San Luis Potosi

Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Xantolo or the mystic Procesion del Silencio (Parade of Silence) in San Luis Potosi will make you live the cultural syncretism which are characteristic of Mexico. If it is about traditions, San Luis Potosi has many to share. Festivities celebrated either in its towns as well as in the capital city give us colorful mosaics of the cultural syncretism defining Mexico. The calendar of San Luis Potosi is very varied, but without any doubt, its great celebrations keep their religious character, such as Day of the Dead and Procesion del Silencio on Holy Week.

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San Luis Potosi Centre: Squares & Architecture Harmony

Beautiful plazas and gardens provide the city of San Luis Potosi a harmonious and pristine environment where people feel compelled to walk anytime. Since 2005, several buildings, monuments and plazas in San Luis Potosi's Historic Center have been highlighted with artificial light. Among the locations to receive luminous decoration are the Plaza del Carmen, the San Francisco Garden with its temple, Fundadores Plaza, The Plaza de Armas, the Cathedral, and more. San Luis Potosi is the first city in Mexico to join 49 other Cities of Light around the world in employing this type of lighting. San Luis was established in 1592 around the Plaza De Los Fundadores.

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Thousands of Adventures at La Huasteca

For outdoor adventure, the region known as the Huasteca Potosina is an ecological paradise offering a variety of ecotourism attractions. Activities center around the town of Ciudad Valles, which is nestled into the Sierra Madre Oriental. River rafting, rappelling, kayaking, mountain biking, and camping are all practiced along the numerous rivers, grottos and lagoons in the area. In the heart of the Huasteca region are the towns of Tamazunchale, Tamasopo and Tamuin. This area is characterized by its beautiful aquatic features as well as its archaeological sites and cultural heritage.

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An Ideal Place for Culture

Beautiful colonial and Porfirian houses are the spaces where San Luis Potosi shares with visitors its cultural richness and artistic sensibility. With many centuries of history, San Luis Potosi is a city with many stories to be shared with visitors. Its museums, housed in beautiful colonial and Porfirian houses, offer the ideal stage to enjoy art, archeological collections, concerts and theater plays. Hands-on activities include language classes, arts and craft workshops and cooking classes. Federico Silva Contemporary Sculpture Museum: Dedicated exclusively to the sculpture of Federico Silva, making it one of a kind in Latin America. Located at the San Juan de Dios Garden in a neo-classical building, the museum has a beautiful panoramic terrace.

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Huastecs, Live Roots of Mexico

After settling in the region many centuries ago, Huastec Indians have been able to preserve not only archeological sites, but also their deep-rooted traditions. The Huastec civilization developed along the Gulf of Mexico coast over a period of 6,000 years and flourished along river systems in parts of the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, and Hidalgo for some 2,500 years (1000 B.C. – 1500 A.D.). The Huastecs may have been the first agriculturalists in Mexico. Their art and social organization reached its apex between 300 B.C. and 900 A.D., an era known as the Classic Period.

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El Rebozo, Elegance in Potosi

Santa Maria del Rio, in San Luis Potosi, is the cradle of one of the most emblematic garments of Mexican woman, the rebozo. San Luis Potosi has its own multicolor catalog of craftsmanship. From morrales (a kind of purse) and boots made of maqueta, baskets of giant reed and furniture of huacalillo with palm coming from Rioverde, up to leather articles, Huasteca dolls, wooden objects, mahogany Christs, wool blankets, very useful for the cool weather which reigns at sunset in San Luis Potosi. But the most representative craftsmanship of the state is the rebozo, an elegant garment which forms part of many typical costumes of Mexico.

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San Luis Potosi and Its Rich Flavors

With the gastronomical tributaries of Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and the Huasteca region, San Luis Potosi possesses one of the most delicious and varied cuisines in Mexico. Typical cocina potosina is delicately spiced and features lots of vegetables, corn and red meat. It is the result of a fusion of indigenous and Spanish recipes. When dining in San Luis Potosi, try the following regional foods: cabuches – an appetizer made from cactus flowers; asado de boda – pork seasoned with ancho chili; zacahuil – a corn dough tamale stuffed with pork; tacos Potosinos – made with cheese or chicken served with carrots, green beans, and potatoes, sprinkled with cheese; fiambre Potosino – a mixed meat and vegetable dish in a regional sauce; gorditas de revoltillo – a stuffed corn dough snack.

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Adventure in San Luis Potosi

Little-known San Luis Potosi is a glorious secret for lovers of outdoor adventure. Encompassing territory as diverse as rainforest and high desert, scored by hundreds of majestic mountains, adventure awaits in the state's every corner. The don't miss attraction, only for those who are not feint of heart, mind or disposition, is Sotano de las Golondrinas, or Cave of the Swallows, a cave of unique such unique proportions, it has become a favorite of base jumpers who get a thrill of the over 1000 foot drop. Of course there are other ways to get to the bottom, such as by rope, which may only take an hour to get down, but a few hours and a lot of stamina to ascend.

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Secrets of the Huasteca Region

Matehuala, Ciudad Valles, Aquismon… more than San Luis Potosi towns, they are truly meeting points with the Huasteca lush, where adventures and mystery await you. San Luis Potosi is one of the states with the greatest natural richness: desert landscapes contrast with the green horizon home of beautiful waterfalls, cascades, rivers, pools… But in addition to this, there are towns that preserve century-old traditions, rituals, clothing, music and food that have remained intact even with the arrival of new cultures, giving San Luis Potosi an aura of mysticism.

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Sotano de las Golondrinas - Cave of the Swallows

Sotano de las Golondrinas/Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosi - Little-known San Luis Potosi is a glorious secret for lovers of outdoor adventure. Encompassing territory as diverse as rainforest and high desert, scored by hundreds of majestic mountains, adventure awaits in the state’s every corner. At Sotano de las Golondrinas, you don’t just rappel 1234 ft to the bottom of the cliff—you go deeper, beneath the surface into one of the world’s most spectacular single-chamber caverns. A flurry of birds helps you find your way down. Back at the surface it’s rafting beneath 344-ft Tamul falls. End your day by biking in the mountains around quaint Real de Catorce.