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| | Puebla, Mexico |
 | | Mexico’s cities are far from uniform – while Mexico City, nearing 20 million people, is the nation’s undisputed cultural and political capital, cities like Monterrey, three hours’ drive south of Texas, and Tijuana, on the California border, have plunged into trade and entrepreneurship, becoming industrial and financial centers. |
 | | Mexico’s climate varies from dry heat in the deserts to sweltering humidity in the lowland forests to perpetual spring in the country’s high central plateau. |
 | | One of them is Puebla, perhaps the quintessential Mexican city, founded in 1531 by the Spanish at the foot of Popocatepetl, the great, often angry 17,883-foot volcano at the eastern limit of the Valley of Mexico. |
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