San Juan de los Cerritos, commonly known as Cerritos, is a city located in the central part of San Luis Potosí, a state of Mexico. It was founded in 1826 by the state's congress. It is within the mid zone of the state called La Zona Media. Within its municipality, which it is the center of, it holds about 51 other small towns. According to the 2010 census, the municipality has 21,394 people; having experienced tremendous growth. Much of its recent growth can be credited to the construction of the cement factory, Cemento Moctezuma, just on the outskirts of the city. During the decades of the 1960s and 1970s Casa Gloria was the main distributor in the city of Cerritos. Nowadays it is expanding its population and more housing is being built near the outskirts of the city.