San Pedro Hill

The town of Cerro de San Pedro in San Luis Potosí is also a mining town that was abandoned, but this time it was not because the ore in the mine ran out, but rather, in 1948 the first great strike of workers in modern Mexico broke out: that of the miners, and the company that owned the mine, the American Asarco, rather than hand it over to its workers, decided to dynamite it.

Currently, fewer than 100 people live in Cerro de San Pedro.

Coal Village

Near the present-day town of Villa del Carbón, in the State of Mexico, there is a town submerged beneath a dam, the Taxhimay dam, one of the largest in the region.

In 1934 the village of San Luis de las Peras was submerged by the waters of the dam and today the submerged remains can be visited, among which the tower and the church portal stand out.