San Luis Potosi
Take a virtual tour through the varied terrain of San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí is a modern, industrial state that borders Mexico's central and northern regions. With a rich pre-Columbian past and colonial legacy, the state is embracing the coming century.
The state's physical terrain varies greatly - from humid tropics in the eastern Huasteca region to the aridity of the Chihuahuan desert in the west - and internet resources parallel this grand diversity. While there is a great deal of information about the state on the Web, most of the quality resources are in Spanish. So get out your map (and dictionary if necessary) and prepare for a virtual tour of San Luis Potosí.
San Luis Potosí
www.angelfire.com/ok/Sanluis/index.html
**** (out of 5*)
Created on the free Angelfire.com website, this home-grown, Spanish-language site offers a number of valuable resources, including a general history, a state map, a review of important haciendas ( www.angelfire.com/ok/altiplano/haciendas.html), and an interactive guestbook ( http://saturn.guestworld.tripod.lycos.com/wgb/wgbview.dbm?owner=sanluis).
It's easy to see the reason why the content-rich site won a "Page of the Day" award from Mexico's Internet Society.
Contact email: sanluis@angelfire.com
Pulso – Internet Edition
One of the state's premier newspapers, Pulso has its own website with state and local news - all in Spanish. The site is slow-loading, but if you're looking for local reporting or want to dive into the archives, then this is the place.
Pulso is a must-visit site. My only reservation is that it is poorly cross-linked, but there is definite potential here for a five-star rating.
Contact email: pulso@pulsoslp.com.mx
San Luis Potosí – Monterrey Tec campus
Sure, this website promotes the private university, but it goes one step further and provides good information about the state and distinctive regions, such as the Huasteca Potosina.
Kudos to Tec! It will be interesting to see if the site can combine distance education and offer courses about the region to students around the world.
Contact email: w-master@www.slp.itesm.mx
Official State Government Page
www.slp.gob.mx/
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Although slow-loading and displaying some out-of-date contacts, this site is nonetheless one of the better government pages in Mexico. Credit is due the administration for placing on-line some eclectic and valuable information, including their first state address and their development plan ( www.slp.gob.mx/plan/plan.htm).
Contact email: proyecto@orb.org.mx
Other choice Potosino websites include:
Weather Underground's current forecast (www.wunderground.com/global/stations/76539.html ),
And if you're curious about the Xilitla, a monument to surrealism in the jungle, be sure to check out www.junglegossip.com.
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