Address Guidelines for Mexico
Follow these suggestions to ensure that your street input data is in the best format possible for optimum geocoding. For additional recommendations about the Mexican postal system, see the Correos de México website http://www.sepomex.gob.mx/Paginas/Home.aspx.
- Required fields—Addresses must contain either a city or a postal code.
- Aliases for cities—You can input aliases for city names and still get a close match. For instance, you could enter "Coyoacán" or "Miguel Hidalgo" and it would match to Mexico city.
Table 1. Aliases for Mexican Cities Alias
Town
Mexico City/Ciudad de Mexico
La Magdalena Contreras
Álvaro Obregón
Azcapotzalco
Benito Juárez
Ciudad Madero
Coyoacán
Cuajimalpa de Morelos
Cuauhtémoc
Gustavo A. Madero
Iztacalco
Iztapalapa
Miguel Hidalgo
Milpa Alta
Tláhuac
Tlalpan
Venustiano Carranza
XochimilcoCiudad López Mateos
Atizapán de Zaragoza
Las Tortugas
Emiliano Zapata
Naucalpan
Naucalpan de Juárez
San Bernardo
San Bernardo Mixtepec
- Aliases for states—You can use state aliases and get a close match. For example, if you enter "YUC" it would match to Yucatán.
Table 2. Aliases for Mexican States State
Alias
Aguascalientes
AGS/AG/AGU
Baja California
Bassa California/Neder-Californië/BC/BJ/BN/ BAJ/B C
Baja California Sur
Bassa California del Sud/BCS/BS/BAS/B C S
Campeche
CAM/CP/CM
Chiapas
CHIS/CH/CU/CHP
Chihuahua
CHIH/CI/CL/CHU
Colima
COL/CL/CH
Coahuila de Zaragoza
COAH/CU/CS/COA/CZ/C Z/Coahuila
Distrito Federal
Distretto Federale/DF/MDF/D F
Durango
DGO/DG/DUR
Guanajuato
GTO/GJ/GT/GUA
Guerrero
GRO/GR/GUE
Hidalgo
HGO/HG/HID
Jalisco
JAL/JA
México
Mexico/Mexiko/Meksiko/Messico/MEX/EM/MX
Michoacán de Ocampo
MICH/MH/MC/MIC/MO/M O/Michoacan
Morelos
MOR/MR
Nayarit
NAY/NA
Nuevo León
NL/NUE/N L
Oaxaca
OAX/OA
Puebla
PUE/PU/PUB
Querétaro Arteaga
QRO/QA/QE/QDA/Q A/Queretaro
Quintana Roo
QROO/QR/QI/QRO/Q R/Q Roo
San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí
Sinaloa
SIN/SI
Sonora
SON/SO
Tabasco
TAB/TA/TB
Tamaulipas
TAMPS/TM/TAM
Tlaxcala
TLAX/TL/TLX
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave
VER/VZ/VE/VCL/Veracruz
Yucatán
Yucatan/YUC/YC/YU
Zacatecas
ZAC/ZT/ZA
- Numbers, numeric equivilants, and ordinals—Numbered streets are mapped to the named equivalents. For example, you can input Calle 5 or Calle cinco and get the same returned candidates. Ordinals are also recognized in input addresses. For example, the following are all recognized in an input address: 5, CINCO, QUINTO, and QUINTA.
- Directionals—The following directionals are recognized in input addresses: Norte, Oriente, Este, Sur, Oueste, Occidente, Poniente, N, E, S, O, NE, NO, SE, SO, Noreste, Sudeste, Noroeste, and Sudoeste.
- Address point data— The MEX NAVTEQ Points database includes address point data. Address point candidates return an S8 result code.