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Saltillo is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-eastern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Saltillo. The municipality covers an area of 6837 km 2. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 648,929. [1] The municipal government is headed by the municipal president of Saltillo (or mayor of Saltillo).
Saltillo has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSh, bordering BSk). Saltillo is located in the Chihuahuan Desert but temperatures are cooler than other desert cities in Mexico because it is located at an altitude of 1,600 meters (5,250 ft). Summers are slightly hot with cool nights, and winters are sunny but cool.
Saltillo International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Saltillo); officially Aeropuerto Internacional Plan de Guadalupe (Plan de Guadalupe International Airport) (IATA: SLW, ICAO: MMIO), is an international airport in the Saltillo metropolitan area situated in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico.
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Estadio Francisco I. Madero is a stadium in Saltillo, Mexico.It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Saraperos de Saltillo. [1] [4] It holds 11,000 people, and features a video screen measuring 14 meters high by 22 meters wide (46 feet high by 72 feet wide). [1]
Saltillo was a shipping point, distributing cotton and staves as late as 1861. During this time period, the town had one Methodist church, a Masonic lodge, two general stores, multiple grist mills, two saw mills, two tanneries and stave manufacturers and dealers. [6] Saltillo was also described historically as a fishing town. [13]
The Saraperos de Saltillo (English: Saltillo Serapes) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League. Their home ballpark is the Estadio de Béisbol Francisco I. Madero in Saltillo, Coahuila. They have won three championships (1980, 2009, and 2010). The 1979 Saraperos were recognized as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all ...
In Mexican linguistics, the saltillo (Spanish, meaning "little skip") is a glottal stop consonant (IPA: [ʔ]). The name was given by the early grammarians of Classical Nahuatl . In a number of other Nahuan languages , the sound cognate to the glottal stop of Classical Nahuatl is [ h ] , and the term saltillo is applied to it for historical reasons.