Diser location in the center of the Republic allows quick access to the most industrialized states, is equidistant to Mexico City, Monterrey or Guadalajara, and is connected by highways and railroad to the main cities of the country, including the ports of Tampico and Altamira on the Gulf of Mexico; Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo on the Pacific Ocean, and to the border cities of Brownsville, McAllen and Laredo, TX in United States.