Rayones Municipality
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Rayones is a municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is named after the Rayón brothers, who were insurgent heroes of the country's independence achieved in 1821. The town was founded in 1852.
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- Instance of
- municipality of Mexico
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Nuevo León
- Capital
- Rayones
- Elevation
- 840
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Rayones is a municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is named after the Rayón brothers, who were insurgent heroes of the country's independence achieved in 1821. The town was founded in 1852.
It is a small village consisting of fourteen streets, lying in the middle of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, in the northeast of Mexico. In the area near Rayones are the municipalities of Galeana (due south), Santiago (due north), and the state of Coahuila, due west. Rayones marks the beginning of the Zona Ixtlera, the southernmost region of the state of Nuevo León.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rayones Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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