an allusive plaque. The city of Aguascalientes once also claimed to be the centre, and the authorities of that municipality placed a plaque in the Main Square of that city (no longer it is there). For its part, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía) indicates that the geographic centre of Mexico, when taking into account only the continental extremes, is located at the following coordinates: , a point to the north-northwest of Nueva Pastoría, a town located in the Zacatecan municipality Villa de Cos. But INEGI's calculation is based on averages of the means of the several longest straight lines that can be drawn between the extremes of the country. Homero Adame Martínez, a researcher, traveler, and reporter of the magazine Mexico Desconocido (Unknown Mexico), calculated for the January 2000 issue of said publication, that the geographic centre of Mexico is located south of the Zacatecan town called Cañitas de Felipe Pescador, seat of the municipality of the same name, near a fork in the railroad Mexico City-Ciudad Juárez (hence, the eastern branch leads to Saltillo, Coahuila): . Government Municipal presidents References External links Government Tourism Municipality of Ojuelos Ojuelos city Municipalities of Jalisco 1569 establishments in New Spain Populated places established in 1569