Santiago is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 located in the center of the Mexican state of Nuevo León

Nuevo León

Nuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...

. It is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area

Monterrey Metropolitan area

The Monterrey metropolitan area refers to the surrounding urban agglomeration of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Officially called Area Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Monterrey or AMM, the metropolitan area is the 3rd-largest such area in Mexico....

 and its area comprises around 763.8 km² . According to the 2005 census, its population is 37,886 inhabitants .
"La Boca" Dam, is one of the water reservoirs serving the metropolitan area, and is located within the municipality. "Cola de Caballo

Cola de Caballo

Cola de Caballo is a waterfall about 40 km from Monterrey, Mexico, in the town of Villa de Santiago, Nuevo León. It is open to the public and is accessible via a walking path.- References :*...

" is a very famous waterfall and tourist attaction.

Santiago, Nuevo León, was named a "Pueblo Mágico

Pueblo Mágico

The Programa Pueblos Mágicos is an initiative led by Mexico's Secretariat of Tourism , in conjunction with other federal and state agencies, to promote a series of towns around the country that offer visitors a "magical" experience – by reason of their natural beauty, cultural riches, or...

" in 2006.

On August 18th, 2010, the body of Mayor Cavazos was found shot dead with two bullets in the head and one in the chest. Two days prior, servants of the Cavazos estate report that seven SUVs, all occupied by men in police uniforms, arrived at the Mayor's home and forced Cavazos away at gunpoint. Two days after the discovery of Mayor Cavazos' body on a road near his home, state agents arrested six of the mayor's own police officers and said they confessed to involvement in the murder. State prosecutors said the suspects had been working for an unspecified drug cartel. Another four men were also arrested with automatic rifles and grenade launchers in their possession and accused of being involved in the plot.

External links

• Government of Santiago, Official Website