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Subject: New Quimera Titles
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:20:15 -0500
From: Quimera Geoinformation <[log in to unmask]>

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Dear MAPS-Lers -

Quimera Editores, Mexico's leading Travel Map and Guide Publisher, is
pleased to announce the publication of the following updated titles:

* Mexico City - Tourist Map
(Ciudad de México - Mapa Turístico);
4th edition, 2004
scale 1: 10,000; bilingual (Spanish/English);
size: folded: 4" x 9.5" (10.5 x 24 cm), unfolded: 27.5" x 37.5" (70 x
95 cm)
47-page booklet with tourist information and photos, including listings
of museums, hotels, restaurants, theaters, movie theaters, embassies
(all with address and phone number); metro plan and street index.
New in this edition: updated information, more parking possibilities,
police stations, and bank branches.

Retail price: US$ 8.95


* Mexico Road Guide (México - Guía de Carreteras);
3rd edition, 2004
scale 1: 1,750,000; bilingual (Spanish/English);
size: 8.25" x 10.6" (21 x 27 cm - nearly US Letter size), 80 pages

Contents: The Road Guide shows freeways, toll roads, principal and
secondary highways, rural roads and tracks, road distances, scenic
routes; railways, ferries, the majority of Mexico's archaeological,
natural, and colonial sites (most of them with name), caves, national
parks, other sites of interest; gas stations and towns of touristic
interest on 28 pages; detailed map of the Mexico City surroundings in
scale 1 : 750,000, and city plans of the 28 most important cities and
the 3 most popular archaeological sites
(Acapulco, Cancún, Chihuahua, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, Guanajuato,
Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, La Paz, León, Los Cabos, Manzanillo, Mazatlán,
Mérida, Mexico City, Monterrey, Oaxaca, Puebla, Puerto Vallarta,
Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tijuana, Toluca, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, San
Cristóbal de Las Casas, San Miguel de Allende, Veracruz, Villahermosa,
and Zacatecas; Chichén Itzá, Palenque, and Teotihuacán).
The Road Guide also contains tourist information and double-sided maps
of major archaeological, colonial, and natural sites with explanations
of the most important, and an extensive place and sight index.
New in this edition: updated information, UNESCO World Heritage Sites,
upgraded altitude tinting and relief shading in the Mexico City
surroundings map.

Retail price: US$ 14.45


* Tourist Guide - Ver y Hacer en la Ciudad de México;
3rd edition, 2004
size: 5.3" x 9" (13.5 x 23 cm); 154 pages; in Spanish

Contents: Illustrated city tourist guide, describing extensively all
the interesting places to visit in Mexico City and surroundings.
Detailed maps in scale 1: 10,000 of Center – Chapultepec, Coyoacán, San
Ángel, and Xochimilco with street index; map of the archaeological site
of Teotihuacán and the surroundings of Mexico City; list of museums,
hotels, restaurants, theaters, movie theaters, embassies (all with
address and phone number); metro plan.

Retail price: US$ 10.95


In the U.S. and Canada these maps and our other titles are available
through our authorized distributors Treaty Oak (Austin, TX -
www.treatyoak.com) and Map Link (Santa Barbara, CA - www.maplink.com).

For more detailed information, cover and map samples, news, etc. please
visit our website at http://www.quimeramx.com.

With kind regards from Mexico, celebrating 193 years of independence,
Roland

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Roland W. Hardt
International Sales

Quimera Editores, S.A. de C.V.
Balderas 33-314 - Col. Centro
06050 México, D.F. - MEXICO
Tel. +52 (55) 5518-1285 and 5512-6169, ext. 105
Fax +52 (55) 5521-4251
http://www.quimeramx.com
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