San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, Mexico

🇲🇽 San Pedro Garza García (also San Pedro or Garza García) is a city-municipality of the Mexican state of Nuevo León and part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. It is a contemporary commercial suburb of the larger metropolitan city of Monterrey between Puente de la Unidad and the Alfa Planetarium, including areas surrounding Calzada del Valle/Calzada San Pedro. In 2018 it was evaluated as having the best quality of life in México and it is regarded as one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Latin America. It has luxury shopping malls, large green areas, as well as important colleges and hospitals Cerro de Chipinque and Chipinque Ecological Park are notable aspects of the city. The city hosts the headquarters of corporations such as ALFA, Cemex, Gamesa, Vitro, Pyosa, Softtek, and Cydsa.

Geography The municipality has an area of 69.4 km² (26.8 sq mi) and is primarily urban, located adjacent to the south-west side of Monterrey. It sits in a valley surrounded by mountains, most notably La Loma Larga and Sierra Madre Oriental.

Economy The town registered in 2018 a per capita income of USD 123,000 per year, according to the Fitch Ratings rating agency, compared to the USD 9,673 that Mexico had, according to the World Bank.

If the GDP per capita, we adhere to the purchasing power, which multiplies × 1.6 that of the US, gives us 196,800, which is the GDP PPA of San Pedro Garza, which would make it the 1st country in the PPA ranking and the 3rd per capita.

Human Development Index (HDI): 0.901 (Official UNDP)

According to Lamudi, a global real estate portal focused on emerging markets, it has currently positioned itself as a pleasant place to live near the state capital.appointment required]

Likewise, it is the headquarters of transnational corporations such as Vitro, Alfa, Cemex, Femsa and home to the important managers of the firms. Even within the municipality is the second tallest skyscraper in the country: the KOI Tower, a 280-meter-high work and 67 floors, which has offices, apartments and a hotel.

It has outstanding industries at the national level in the field of chemistry, machinery, ceramics, limestone and plaster processing, in addition to large corporations of companies have selected the territory of San Pedro to establish themselves. Corporate offices of several leading industrial conglomerates in the country are also located in this municipality.

Heritage The municipality has more than 20 museums and some of the most important cultural centres in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, such as: • San Pedro Auditorium: enclosure in which from plays to classical music concerts take place. • Alfa Planetarium: set of Museum, Astronomical Observatory and Omnimax-type movie theater, now known as IMAX Dome, inaugurated by the president of the Alfa Group, Bernardo Garza Sada. With an area of 3,000 square meters, distributed over four floors, it is intended for permanent exhibitions of science, technology and art. On the outskirts of the building, there is an aviary and the Anthropology area. It has a multi-theatre, which is a hemispheric screen of 40 meters in diameter, in which films are screened in the Omnimax system, first in Latin America and fourth in the world, whose characteristic is to make the viewer feel in the place of the scene. • El Centenario Museum: historic house located in front of the municipal square. In its rooms, the life of the old sampetrinos is recreated, in addition to temporary exhibition rooms that are constantly renewed. • Plaza Fátima Cultural Center: founded in 1988 promoted by a citizen group headed by Don Francisco Zertuche.

Education: University The city is home to the Catholic university, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), which offers bachelor's degree and master's degree programs. The Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) has two of its graduate schools in San Pedro. The Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE), ITESM's Graduate School of Business, and the Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Política Pública (EGAP), the Graduate School of Politics and Public Administration. Both campuses are located in Valle Oriente. There are no public universities in San Pedro.

Chipinque Ecological Park On the slopes of Cerro de Chipinque, within the Cumbres de Monterrey national park, is the Chipinque Ecological Park, with 1,791 hectares, covering altitudes from 730 to 2,200 meters with representative flora and fauna. The annual average temperature is 21 °C.

The Chipinque Ecological Park aims to conserve biodiversity through integrated management that ensures the conservation of its natural resources, which in turn promotes respect and appreciation of the ecosystem and geography of the place.

On the 25th anniversary of the park, the Chipinque brand was redesigned, which revitalized the relationship that visitors have with the park.