Pachuca

Pachuca

 in full Pachuca de Soto

City (pop., 2000: 231,602), capital of Hidalgo state, central Mexico. Founded in 1534, it was one of the first settlements in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. It lies in a rich mining area in the Sierra Madre Oriental, roughly 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above sea level. Its silver mines date from the 16th century, when the Mexican process of separating silver from the ore by amalgamation with mercury was perfected there. Industries include smelting works and metallic-ore reduction plants.

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Pachuca

a city in central Mexico, capital of Hidalgo state, in the Sierra Madre Oriental: silver mines; university (1961). Pop.: 333 000 (2005 est.)

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Pachuca 

(Pachuca de Soto), a city in central Mexico and the capital of the state of Hidalgo. Population, 84,500 (1970). The city is a railroad station and a major silver-mining center, one of the oldest in Mexico. Pachuca has food, wool, and nonferrous metallurgy industries.