Its territory is crisscrossed by 1,242 miles of roads. The main ones are the north-south highway, which connectsAguascalientes City with Zacatecas, Durango, Guanajuato, Queretaro and Mexico City; the east - west highway leads to San Luis, Tampico, Guadalajara, Manzanillo, and Tepic.

With 134 miles of railroad tracks, Aguascalientes has the longest system per square mile in the nation, with direct lines to Ciudad Juarez (across the border is El Paso, Texas), Mexico City, and San Luis Potosi with a connection to Nuevo Laredo. In 1991 these trains carried 359,000 metric tons of local products.

Our international airport is only ten miles away from downtown Aguascalientes City; several national and U.S. aircarriers have daily flights to the principal cities in Mexico and abroad.

Some 115 urban centers are well communicated through an extensive network of telephone lines and relay stations. In 1991 there were 54,500 telephone lines, and already plans were being carried out to supply several thousand more.

There are ten local AM radio stations, three FM stations, two local T.V. channels, four network channels, and one cable T.V. service, with seventeen national and foreign channels.