| Coahuila |
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| Location |
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| Statistics |
| Capital |
Saltillo |
| Area |
149,982 km²
Ranked 3rd |
Population
(2005 census) |
2,495,200
Ranked 17th |
| HDI (2004) |
0.8284 - coahuila high
Ranked 3rd |
| Governor |
Humberto Moreira Valdés (PRI) |
| Federal Deputies |
PAN: 5
PRI: 2 |
| Federal Senators |
PAN: villa union, coahuila 2
PRI: 1 |
ISO 3166-2
Postal abbr. |
MX-COA
Coah. |
Coahuila (formal name: Coahuila de Zaragoza) is one of Mexico's 31 component states. monclova coahuila It is located in the north of the country.
To the north Coahuila monclova coahuila , mexico accounts for a 512 km stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, adjacent to the U.S. allende coahuila state of Texas along the current event in coahuila course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte). Coahuila also borders on the chicos de barrio de torreon coahuila Mexican states of Nuevo León to the east; coahuila danza regional San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas to the south; and Durango and Chihuahua to the west. With restaurants in piedras negras, coahuila an area of 151,571 km², it is the nation's third biggest state. It comprises 38 municipalities (municipios). In 2000 Coahuila had universidad tecnologica de coahuila an estimated population of some 2,300,000 inhabitants.
The capital ciudad acuna coahuila mexico of Coahuila is the city of Saltillo. Coahuila also includes coahuila traje tipico de mujer the cities of Monclova (a former state capital), Piedras Negras, and Torreón.
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Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Economy
- 3 Municipalities
- 4 List saltillo coahuila of governors
- 5 See also
- 6 External topographic coahuila links
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History
The Spanish explored the traje regional de coahuila north of Mexico some decades after their victory in the capital of the Aztecs. Such exploration cd acuna coahuila mexico was delayed because in the north climate was harsher, because there was no gold there, and because they were nava, coahuila attacked by natives. In the 16th century, Mexico and Guatemala were piedras negras coahuila included in the vice-royalty of New Spain torreon coahuila mexico which included Nueva Extremadura. Coahuila was part of Nueva Extremadura. Francisco Cano was one of yacimientos de carbon en coahuila the earliest Europeans to explore Nueva Extremadura.
Coahuila y agave scabra coahuila Tejas ("Coahuila and Texas") was one of the constituent states of the newly independent United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution. camiones coahuila Much of the territory coahuila and texas history of Texas seceded in 1836, to form the Republic of Texas.
On February 19, 1856, Santiago coahuila cueva la espantosa Vidaurri annexed Coahuila to his state, Nuevo León.
During the Mexican Revolution, Francisco Villa attacked the city of Torreón.
On April 5, 2004, the coahuila empleos border city of Piedras Negras was flooded. More than 30 people coahuila police died and more than 4000 lost cuatro cienegas coahuila mexico their homes.
Economy
About 95% of Mexico's coal reserve is found in empleo y nuevo leon y coahuila y taller Coahuila, which is the country's top mining state. Saltillo also has a hoteles en torreon coahuila growing automobile industry, hosting General Motors and Daimler-Chrysler assembly plants.
Municipalities
Coahuila is subdivided into five regions and 38 municipalities (municipios). For a local police coahuila full list with municipal seats, see: municipalities of monclova, coahuila mexico hotels Coahuila
List of governors
This list is incomplete
- José María moreira gobernador de coahuila Garza Galán (?-1893)
- José María Múzquiz (1894)
- Miguel Cárdenas (1894-1909)
- Jesús Valle (1909-1911)
- Venustiano Carranza (1911-1913)
- Gustavo Espinoza Mireles (1917-1920)
- Luis Gutiérrez Ortiz (1920-1921)
- Arnulfo González (1921-1923)
- Carlos Garza physicians in nueva rosita coahuila mexico Castro (1923-1925)
- Manuel Pérez Treviño (1925-1929)
- Bruno Neira González (1929-1929)
- Nazario Ortiz ramos arizpe coahuila Garza (1929-1933)
- Jesús Valdez Sánchez (1933-1937)
- Pedro Rodríguez Triana (1937-1941)
- Gabriel Cervera Riza (1941-1941)
- Benecio López Padilla camino real en torreon coahuila (1941-1945)
- Ignacio Cepeda Dávila (1945-1947)
- Ricardo Ainslie Rivera (1947-1948)
- Paz Faz Risa ciudad coahuila mexico (1948-1948)
- Raúl López Sáchez (1948-1951)
- Roman Cepeda Flores (1951-1957)
- Raúl Madero González (1957-1963)
- Braulio Fernández Aguirre (1963-1969)
- Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño (1969-1975)
- Oscar Flores ciudad frontera coahuila Tapia (1975-1981)
- Francisco José Madero González (1981-1981)
- José de las Fuentes Rodríguez (1981-1987)
- Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto (1987-1993)
- Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (1993-1999)
- Enrique Martínez clinica mexico en piedras negras coahuila mexico y Martínez (1999-2005)
- Humberto Moreira Valdés (2005–)
See also
- Nueva Extremadura
- Coahuila y Tejas
- Other Mexican States
External links
- (Spanish) Coahuila State Government
- (English) Coahuila State Government
- (Spanish) Towns, comision estatal de procesos internos del pri coahuila cities, and postal codes in Coahuila
- (Spanish) Manuel Acuña (1849-1873) Poet, Coahuila México
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