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Region in Mexico
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Altiplano (Central Plateau) is in San Luis Potosí. The Altiplano is a high desert with high mountain ranges and a moderate climate although it can have snowstorms in the winter. It boasts some of the most diverse varieties of cacti found anywhere.
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Matehuala is a town in San Luis Potosí. It's the second most important city of the state.
Mexquitic de Carmona is a small village of about 1500 people (2020) in San Luis Potosí state in the Bajío in Mexico. It is surrounded by beautiful mountains and is set next to a man-made lake.
this former silver mining boomtown is popular with tourists as an almost ghost town
the place of pilgrimage for the Huichol (Wirrárika).
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