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
    Xochimilco

    Ciudad 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 HERE Points database includes address point data. Address point candidates return an S8 result code.