A live webcam shows the panorama of the city of Puebla in Mexico.
Puebla (Spanish: Puebla), officially Puebla de Zaragoza, is the largest city and the capital of the state of Puebla in southern Central Mexico. It covers an area of 546 km² and is home to 1.5 million people. Puebla forms the fourth largest urban area in Mexico after Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey, with a population of over 2.6 million people.
The city is situated at an altitude of about 2 km above sea level in southern Central Mexico, in the Puebla Valley (Ketzalkoatl Valley), surrounded by mountains and volcanoes of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, 130 km southeast of Mexico City. Puebla is the only city in the world surrounded by volcanoes on all sides, including the 5500-meter Popocatépetl, 5220-meter Iztaccihuatl, 4503-meter Malinche, and 5747-meter Pico de Orizaba.
Puebla is one of Mexico’s economic centers, housing companies in the food, textile, footwear, metallurgical, and chemical industries. Tourism is a significant sector of Puebla’s economy, and in 1987, the city was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.