title: Salinas Victoria
text: # Salinas Victoria
  
  Salinas Victoria, is a municipality and town located in the center of the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. It shares borders with 11 municipalities including, to the north Villaldama and Sabinas Hidalgo; to the south Escobedo and Apodaca; to the east Higueras, Ciénega de Flores and General Zuazua; and finally to the west with Mina, Hidalgo, Abasolo and El Carmen.
  
  Salinas Victoria is the northernmost and, with an extension of 1,667 square kilometers, the largest municipality of the Monterrey metropolitan area. According to the 2005 census, it had a population of 27,848.
  
  ## Origin of the name
  
  "Salinas" (Spanish for salt marshes) was chosen because the lands present saline characteristics. "Victoria" after the first Mexican president Guadalupe Victoria.
  
  ## Localities
  
  | Name | Population (2020) | Area |
  | - | - | - |
  | Los Pilares | 25,995 | 1.78 $km^2$ |
  | Valle del Norte | 14,305 | 1.55 $km^2$ |
  | Salinas Victoria | 13,059 | 4.49 $km^2$ |
  | Bosques de los Nogales | 11,980 | 1.34 $km^2$ |
  | Emiliana Zapata | 6,309 | 2.33 $km^2$ |
  | Mission | 5,113 | 1.50 $km^2$ |
  