Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Aguas Calientes

AGUAS CALIENTES (ag′waz kal-yān′taz), a town of Mexico, capital of a central State of the same name, with an area of 2,900 square miles and a population of about 125,000, stands on a plain 6,000 feet above the sea-level, 270 miles N. W. of the City of Mexico. The environs abound in hot springs, from which the town takes its name. Pop. about 50,000.

Source: Collier's New Encyclopedia 1. (1921) New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company. 75.

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