Silao is a city in the west-central part of the state of Guanajuato in Mexico. It is the seat of the municipio with the same name. As of the 2005 census, the city had a population of 147,123, making it the seventh-largest community in the state. Silao is a center of agricultural and industrial activity in the area, with a wide variety of farm crops, produce and dairy packing plants and a General Motors truck and SUV assembly plant which currently makes the following models: Chevrolet and GMC Pickups, Cadillac Escalade EXT and the Chevrolet Avalanche.
This city is served by the Del Bajío International Airport. It functions as the central airport for the cities of Irapuato, Guanajuato, León, and Salamanca.In its original Nahuatl, it was called Tzinacua by the Otomi and Tarascan natives. Tzinacua loosely translates into ‘place of dense fog’, derived from the quantity of thermal waters surrounding the area. In the Otomi language its name is Tsinäkua that also means ‘place of dense fog’.
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