Coahuila, formally
Coahuila de Zaragoza , is one of
MexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
's 31 component
statesThe United Mexican States is a federation made up of thirty-one "free and sovereign states". These states constitute one federated State or Union. The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the Federal District, a territory which does not belong to any state but to all, as well as...
. It is located in the north of the country.
To the north, Coahuila accounts for a stretch of the U.S. - Mexico border, adjacent to the
U.S.The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
stateA U.S. state is any one of 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government . Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile...
of
TexasTexas is the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends" or "allies"...
along the course of the
Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte)The Rio Grande is a river that forms part of the border between the United States and Mexico. At long, it is the fourth-longest river system in the United States...
.
Coahuila also borders the Mexican states of
Nuevo LeónNuevo León is a state located in northeastern Mexico. It borders the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east and San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León accounts for a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...
to the east,
ZacatecasZacatecas state of Mexico is located in the north-central region and it is bounded to the northwest by Durango, to the north by Coahuila, to the east by San Luis Potosí, to the south by Aguascalientes and Guanajuato and to the southwest by Jalisco and Nayarit...
and
San Luis PotosiThe Mexican state of San Luis Potosí has an area of .It is in the central part of the Mexican republic, It borders Coahuila to the north, Nuevo Leon to the north-east, Tamaulipas to the east, Veracruz to the east, Hidalgo, Queretaro, and Guanajuato to the south, and Zacatecas to the north-west...
to the south, and
DurangoDurango is one of the constituent states of Mexico, with a population of 1,509,118. It has Mexico's second-lowest population density, after Baja California Sur...
and Chihuahua to the west. With an area of , it is the nation's third-largest state. It comprises 38 municipalities
(municipios). In 2005, Coahuila's population was 2,495,200 inhabitants.
The capital of Coahuila and its largest city is
SaltilloSaltillo is the capital city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. The city is located at 400km south of the U.S...
. Coahuila also includes the cities of
TorreónTorreón is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2009, the city's population was 1,000,723 with 1,000,477 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros, Coahuila, and Gómez Palacio and Lerdo in adjacent...
(the largest metropolitan area of the state but part of this metro area is in the neighboring state of Durango),
MonclovaSantiago de la Monclova, more commonly known as just Monclova in everyday speech, is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. According to the 2005 INEGI census there were 198,819 inhabitants in the city and 200,160 in the...
(a former state capital),
Piedras NegrasPiedras Negras is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. It stands at the northeastern edge of Coahuila on the U.S.-Mexico border, across the Río Bravo from Eagle Pass in the U.S. state of Texas...
, and
Ciudad AcuñaCiudad Acuña, also known simply as Acuña, is a city located in the Mexican state of Coahuila, at and a mean height above sea level of 280 meters...
.
History
The Spanish explored the north of Mexico some decades after their victory in the capital of the Aztecs. Such exploration was delayed because the northern climate was harsher and there was no gold. The first Spanish settlement in the region now called Coahuila was at Minas de la Trinidad (now Monclova) in 1577. And Saltillo was in 1586, when it formed part of the province of
Nueva VizcayaNueva Vizcaya was the first province in the north of the Viceroyalty of New Spain to be explored and settled by the Spanish. It consisted mostly of the area which is today the states of Chihuahua and Durango.-Early exploration and the Viceroyalty:...
of the vice-royalty of
New SpainThe Viceroyalty of New Spain , was the political unit of Spanish territories in North and Central America, and Asia-Pacific. The territory included the present-day California, Southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America , the Caribbean, and the Philippines. It was ruled by a viceroy from...
. Later it became the province of
Nueva ExtremaduraNueva Extremadura was a region in the north of New Spain. It was named after Extremadura .-See also:*Coahuila y Tejas*Nuevo México*Geography of Mexico*History of Mexico*Mexico...
.
Francisco CanoFrancisco Cano was a conquistador who explored the north of Mexico to find gold, in the 16th century.-See also:*Coahuila*History of Mexico*Mexico*Nueva Galicia...
was one of the earliest Europeans to explore Nueva Extremadura.
Coahuila y TejasCoahuila y Tejas was one of the constituentstates of the newly established United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution....
("Coahuila and Texas") was one of the constituent states of the newly independent United Mexican States under its
1824 Constitution The 1824 Constitution of Mexico was the first full constitution adopted by the Mexican Republic. Enacted on October 4, 1824, following the overthrow of the short-lived Mexican Empire of Iturbide, the constitution stated that the new republic was to be styled the "United Mexican...
, and included Texas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon. Later in the same year Nuevo Leon was detached, but Texas remained a part of the state until 1835, when it seceded to form the
Republic of TexasThe Republic of Texas was an independent state in North America, bordering the United States and Mexico, that existed from 1836 to 1845.Formed as a break-away republic from Mexico by the Texas Revolution, the state claimed borders that encompassed an area that included all of the present U.S...
. Monclova was the capital of the state from 1833 to 1835.
In 1840 Coahuila briefly became a member of the short lived
Republic of the Rio GrandeThe Republic of the Rio Grande was a name given to an independent nation that insurgents against the Central Mexican Government sought to establish in northern Mexico. The rebellion lasted from January 17 to November 6, 1840.- Background :...
.
On February 19, 1856,
Santiago VidaurriSantiago Vidaurri was a governor of Nuevo León, during the invasion of Maximilian I of Mexico he joined to him and betrayed Benito Juarez, however, Juarez won the war against Maximilan and Porfirio Díaz killed Vidaurri for picking the wrong side....
annexed Coahuila to his state,
Nuevo LeónNuevo León is a state located in northeastern Mexico. It borders the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east and San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León accounts for a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...
, but it regained its separate status in 1868.
During the
Mexican RevolutionThe Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910 with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements.Over time the Revolution...
, Francisco Villa attacked the city of
TorreónTorreón is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2009, the city's population was 1,000,723 with 1,000,477 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros, Coahuila, and Gómez Palacio and Lerdo in adjacent...
.
On April 5, 2004, the border city of
Piedras NegrasPiedras Negras is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. It stands at the northeastern edge of Coahuila on the U.S.-Mexico border, across the Río Bravo from Eagle Pass in the U.S. state of Texas...
was flooded. More than 30 people died and more than 4000 lost their homes.
In 2007, Coahuila became the first state in Mexico to offer
civil unionA civil union is a legally recognized union similar to marriage. Beginning with Denmark in 1989, civil unions under one name or another have been established by law in many developed countries in order to provide same-sex couples with rights, benefits, and responsibilities similar to opposite-sex...
s (Pacto Civil de Solidaridad) to same-sex couples.
Geography
The
Sierra Madre OrientalThe Sierra Madre Oriental is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico, spanning 1000 km from Coahuila south through Nuevo León, southwest Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, and Hidalgo to northern Puebla, where it joins with the east-west running Eje Volcánico Transversal of central...
runs northwest to southeast through the state, and the higher elevations are home to the
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forestsThe Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests are a subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion of northeastern Mexico, extending into the state of Texas in the United States.-Setting:...
.
East of the range, the land slopes gently toward the Rio Grande, and is drained by several rivers, including the
SaladoThe Salado River is a river in northern Mexico, a tributary of the Rio Grande . Its basin extends across the northern portion of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas states....
and its tributary the Sabinas. The
Tamaulipan mezquitalThe Tamaulipan mezquital is a xeric shrubland ecoregion in the southern United States and northeastern Mexico. It covers an area of , encompassing the Gulf Coastal Plain of southern Texas, northern Tamaulipas, northeastern Coahuila, and part of Nuevo León. The Sierra Madre Oriental range to the...
, a
dry shrublandDeserts and xeric shrublands is a biome characterized by, relating to, or requiring only a small amount of moisture. Deserts and xeric shrublands receive an annual average rainfall of ten inches or less, and have an arid or hyperarid climate, characterized by a strong moisture deficit, where annual...
ecoregionAn ecoregion , sometimes called a bioregion, is an ecologically and geographically defined area smaller than a "realm" or "ecozone". Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural communities and species...
, occupies the western portion of the state, and extends across the Rio Grande into southern Texas.
The portion of the state west of the Sierra Madre Oriental lies on the
Mexican PlateauThe Central Mexican Plateau, also known as the Mexican Altiplano, is a large plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico. It extends from the United States border in the north to the Cordillera Neovolcánica in the south, and is bounded by the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre...
, and is part of the
Chihuahuan DesertThe Chihuahuan Desert is a desert that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border. On the U.S. side it occupies the valleys and basins of central and southern New Mexico, Texas west of the Pecos River and southeastern Arizona; south of the border, it covers the northern half of the Mexican state of...
. The
Bolsón de MapimíThe Bolsón de Mapimí is an endorheic river basin located in the center-north of the Mexican Plateau.It is also known as the Comarca Lagunera, and is shared by the states of Durango, Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Zacatecas...
is a large endorheic basin which covers much of the western portion of the state and extends into adjacent portions of Chihuahua, Durango, and Zacatecas. The
Nazas RiverThe Nazas River is located in the North of Mexico and is shared by the States of Coahuila and Durango. It is only 560 km in length , but irrigates an area of 71,906 km² in the middle of the deserts of Coahuila and Durango states. The Nazas is also nurtured by the San Juan, Ramos, Potreritos, del...
, which flows east from Durango, and the
Aguanaval RiverThe Aguanaval River is a river of central Mexico. It originates in the southern Sierra Madre Occidental range of Zacatecas state, and flows generally north through Zacatecas and Durango states to empty into the Bolsón de Mapimí in Coahuila state. Its waters are used extensively for irrigation in...
, which flows north from Zacatecas, empty into lakes in the Bolsón.
TorreónTorreón is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2009, the city's population was 1,000,723 with 1,000,477 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros, Coahuila, and Gómez Palacio and Lerdo in adjacent...
, the most populous city in the state, lies on the Nazas in the irrigated Laguna Region, the
(Comarca Lagunera), which straddles the border of Coahuila and Durango.
The state contains two
biosphere reserveThe UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme was established in 1977 to promote an interdisciplinary approach to research, training and communications in ecosystem conservation and rational use of natural resources.-Development:...
s.
Maderas del CarmenMaderas del Carmen is a biosphere reserve in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila.Maderas del Carmen encompasses the Sierra del Carmen, a segment of the Sierra Madre Oriental range...
lies on the northern border of the state, and includes sections of the Chihuahuan desert and
sky islandSky islands are mountains in ranges isolated by valleys in which other ecosystems are located. As a result, the mountain ecosystems are isolated from each other, and species can develop in parallel, as on island groups such as the Galápagos Islands....
s of pine-oak forest in the Sierra del Carmen. The springs, lakes, and wetlands of
Cuatro CiénegasCuatro Ciénegas is a city in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. It stands at , at an average elevation of 740 metres above sea level. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name....
lie west of Monclova on the west slope of the Sierra Madre.
The state is largely arid or semi-arid, but the rivers of the state support extensive irrigated agriculture, particularly
cottonCotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa. The fiber most often is spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft,...
. The
ParrasParras de la Fuente is a city located in the southern part of the Mexican state of Coahuila. At the census of 2005, the population was 44,715. There are a large number of factories that produce denim, including a Dickies factory, and Parras is also a wine-making place...
district in the southern part of the state produces wines and brandies. The
pine-oak forestsThe Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests are a subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion of northeastern Mexico, extending into the state of Texas in the United States.-Setting:...
of the Sierra Madre produce timber.
Demography
The last population census run across Mexico in the year 2005, reports Coahuila de Zaragoza as having roughly 2,500,000 inhabitants, which, considering its size, means that the state has a very low density, in fact as low as only 15 persons per sq. kilometer.
Coahuila's population is comprised mainly of people of
CriolloCriollo is a Spanish term, often translated into English as Creole, which may refer to:*Criollo people, a caste in the Spanish race-based colonial caste system...
(European). History reveals how
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an colonizers destroyed the disperse and nomadic tribes which inhabited these territories, and as such less than 7,500 natives reside in Coahuila, or merely 0,3% of the total population. The rest of the population is composed of
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Canadian, and
JapaneseThe are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries are referred to as...
communities.
The rest of the demographic particulars in the state are very similar to national averages, such as a high life expectancy reaching 75 years of age and a catholic majority.
Education
Coahuila enjoys a schooling standard of 8,5 years of education, comparable to national average.
Institutions of higher education include:
- Instituto Tecnológico de Saltillo
The Technological Institute of Saltillo , or ITS, is located in the city of Saltillo, state capital of Coahuila, Mexico. It is a college level technological institution. Though founded in July 1950 by Mexican President Miguel Alemán Valdez, it started operations on January 3, 1951.-History:Since...
- Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro
The Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro is a public university in Mexico dedicated to the Agricultural, Silvicultural, animal, food and environmental sciences. It is located 6 kilometers south of Saltillo, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. There is also a campus in Torreón, Coahuila. It is...
(UAAAN)
- Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila
The Autonomous University of Coahuila is a state university founded in 1957. It is located in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. The university system has three campuses — Saltillo, Torreón, and Norte — distributed among the most populated cities in the state...
Economy
About 95% of Mexico's coal reserves are found in Coahuila, which is the country's top mining state. Saltillo also has a growing automobile industry, hosting General Motors and
ChryslerChrysler Group, LLC is an American automobile manufacturer headquartered in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan. Chrysler was first organized as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925. From 1998 to 2007, Chrysler and its subsidiaries were part of the German based DaimlerChrysler AG...
assembly plants.
As of 2005, Coahuila’s economy represents 3.5% of Mexico’s total
gross domestic productThe gross domestic product or gross domestic income is a basic measure of a country's economic performance and is the market value of all final goods and services made within the borders of a country in a year...
or 22,874 million USD. Coahuila's economy has a strong focus on export oriented manufacturing (i.e.
maquiladoraA maquiladora or maquila is a factory that imports materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing and then re-exports the assembled product, usually back to the originating country. A maquila is also referred to as a "twin plant", or "in-bond" industry...
/ INMEX). As of 2005, 221,273 people are employed in the manufacturing sector. Foreign direct investment in Coahuila was 143.1 million USD for 2005. The average wage for an employee in Coahuila is approximately 190 pesos per day.
Municipalities
Coahuila is subdivided into five regions and 38 municipalities
(municipiosA municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. A municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a city council or municipal council.The notion of municipality...
).
For a full list with municipal seats, see:
municipalities of CoahuilaThe Mexican state of Coahuila is divided into38 municipalities ....
Major communities
- Ciudad Acuña
Ciudad Acuña, also known simply as Acuña, is a city located in the Mexican state of Coahuila, at and a mean height above sea level of 280 meters...
- Ciudad Frontera
Ciudad Frontera is a town in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. It is in the east-central part of the state, just west of the city of Monclova. It is located in the state's central region ....
- Guerrero
Guerrero is a city and seat of the municipality of Guerrero, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Coahuila....
- Ciudad Melchor Múzquiz
- Francisco I. Madero
- Matamoros
Matamoros is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name located in the southwestern part of the state of Coahuila in Mexico. It lies directly east of the larger city/municipality of Torreón, and is a part of a larger metropolitan area that includes the municipalities of...
- Monclova
Santiago de la Monclova, more commonly known as just Monclova in everyday speech, is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. According to the 2005 INEGI census there were 198,819 inhabitants in the city and 200,160 in the...
- Nueva Rosita
Nueva Rosita is a town in the northeastern part of the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico. It lies about 11 km northwest of the city of Sabinas on Federal Highway 57, and serves as the municipal seat of San Juan de Sabinas municipality....
- Parras de la Fuente
Parras de la Fuente is a city located in the southern part of the Mexican state of Coahuila. At the census of 2005, the population was 44,715. There are a large number of factories that produce denim, including a Dickies factory, and Parras is also a wine-making place...
- Piedras Negras
Piedras Negras is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. It stands at the northeastern edge of Coahuila on the U.S.-Mexico border, across the Río Bravo from Eagle Pass in the U.S. state of Texas...
- Ramos Arizpe
Ramos Arizpe is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. Ramos Arizpe is located 11 km from the state capital of Saltillo. It is part of the Saltillo metropolitan area. The city reported a population of 48,228 people in the 2005...
- Sabinas
Sabinas is a city and its surrounding municipality of the same name located in the northeastern quadrant of the state of Coahuila in Mexico. As of the 2005 census the city had a population of 47,933, while the municipality of which the city serves as municipal seat had a population of 53,042. The...
- Saltillo
- San Pedro
San Pedro is a city located in the southwestern part of the state of Coahuila in Mexico. San Pedro lies east-northeast of the city of Torreón and serves as the seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name.In the 2005 INEGI Census the city had a population of 43,447 inhabitants, while the...
- Torreón
Torreón is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2009, the city's population was 1,000,723 with 1,000,477 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros, Coahuila, and Gómez Palacio and Lerdo in adjacent...
List of governors
This list is incomplete
- José María Garza Galán
José María Garza Galán was a Mexican politician. He was governor of the northern state of Coahuila during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz. Garza Galán wanted to be again governor in 1893, but there were protests. Eventually, Porfirio Díaz asked Garza Galán to withdraw his candidacy....
(?-1893)
- José María Múzquiz (1894)
- Miguel Cárdenas
Miguel Cárdenas was a Mexican politician. He was candidate for the elections of 1894 for the post of governor of Coahuila and was supported by Bernardo Reyes. But Cárdenas removed his candidacy as did José María Garza Galán. So, José María Múzquiz became governor. Eventually, Miguel Cárdenas...
(1894-1909)
- Jesús de Valle (1909-1911)
- Venustiano Carranza
Venustiano Carranza de la Garza was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted...
(1911-1913)
- Gustavo Espinoza Mireles (1917-1920)
- Luis Gutiérrez Ortíz (1920-1921)
- Arnulfo González (1921-1923)
- Carlos Garza Castro (1923-1925)
- Manuel Pérez Treviño
General Manuel Pérez Treviño was a Mexican politician and was an important military and political leader during and after the Mexican Revolution....
(1925-1929)
- Bruno Neira González (1929-1929)
- Nazario Ortiz Garza (1929-1933)
- Jesús Valdez Sánchez (1933-1937)
- Pedro Rodríguez Triana (1937-1941)
- Gabriel Cervera Riza (1941-1941)
- Benecio López Padilla (1941-1945)
- Ignacio Cepeda Dávila (1945-1947)
- Ricardo Ainslie Rivera (1947-1948)
- Paz Faz Risa (1948-1948)
- Raúl López Sánchez (1948-1951)
- Roman Cepeda Flores (1951-1957)
- Raúl Madero González (1957-1963)
- Braulio Fernández Aguirre (1963-1969)
- Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño (1969-1975)
- Oscar Flores 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 y Martínez
Enrique Martinez y Martinez is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Revolutionary Institutional Party. He served as governor of Coahuila from December 2, 1999 to December 1, 2005....
(1999-2005)
- Humberto Moreira Valdés
Humberto Moreira Valdés is the current Governor of the Mexican State of Coahuila . His parents, Rubén Moreira and Evangelina Valdés...
(2005–)
Notable people
- Venustiano Carranza - President of Mexico
The Constitutional Citizen President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. Under the Constitution, the president is also the head of government and the Supreme Commander of the Mexican armed forces...
- Luis Farell
Luis Farell Cubillas was born in San Pedro de las Colonias, Coahuila, Mexico, being son of Consuelo Cubillas Gutiérrez – a native of Santander, Spain- and the jeweler Enrique Farell Solá – a native of Catalonia, Spain...
- Combat pilot and general
- Eulalio Gutiérrez
Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz was elected provisional president of Mexico during the Aguascalientes Convention and led the country for a few months between November 6, 1914, and January 16, 1915....
- President of MexicoThe Constitutional Citizen President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. Under the Constitution, the president is also the head of government and the Supreme Commander of the Mexican armed forces...
- Joakim Soria
Joakim Agustín Soria Ramos is an All Star right-handed closer for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball. He has been nicknamed The Mexicutioner.-Mexican League career:...
- MLB closerCloser may refer a noun or the comparative form of the adjective close, it may refer to:* Closer , by Patrick Marber* Closer , adaptation directed by Mike Nichols...
- Pablo Montero
Pablo Montero is a popular Mexican singer and actor. Montero is better known for his singing career; in fact, it was his career as a singer that has led him towards becoming an actor.Known for his use of "charro" hats and black clothing during his concerts, Montero is considered to be a teen idol...
- Singer and actor
- Horacio Piña
Horacio Piña [pee'-nyah] is a former relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball between and . Piña also played professionally in Mexico for several years...
- MLB pitcherIn baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter who attempts to either make contact with it or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the pitcher is...
)
- Sangre Chicana
Sangre Chicana is the ring name of Mexican professional wrestler Andrés Durán Reyes. Born November 30, 1951 in Paredón, Coahuila, he currently works for the on the Mexican independent wrestling circuit....
- Professional wrestler
- Ari Telch
Ari Telch is an award-winning Mexican actor best known for his work in telenovelas and the stage.-Early life and career:...
- Actor
- Andrea Villarreal
Andrea Villarreal was a Mexican revolutionary, journalist and feminist. Often referred to in the press as the Mexican Joan of Arc....
- Feminist and revolutionary
- Rosario Ybarra
Rosario Ybarra de la Piedra is an activist and prominent figure of the Politics of Mexico. She has been a presidential candidate and is currently the president of Comité Eureka...
- Politician and senator
- Humberto Zurita
Humberto Zurita is a Mexican actor, director and producer.Zurita was born in Torreón, Coahuila, and is one of ten children in his family.He is best known as actor, director and producer of telenovelas...
- Actor, director and producer
- Francisco Ignacio Madero - President of Mexico November 1911 - February 1913
See also
- Nueva Extremadura
Nueva Extremadura was a region in the north of New Spain. It was named after Extremadura .-See also:*Coahuila y Tejas*Nuevo México*Geography of Mexico*History of Mexico*Mexico...
- Nueva Vizcaya
Nueva Vizcaya is a province of the Philippines located in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon. Its capital is Bayombong. It is bordered by, clockwise from the north, Ifugao, Isabela, Quirino, Aurora, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, and Benguet....
- Coahuila y Tejas
Coahuila y Tejas was one of the constituentstates of the newly established United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution....
- Other Mexican States
The United Mexican States is a federation made up of thirty-one "free and sovereign states". These states constitute one federated State or Union. The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the Federal District, a territory which does not belong to any state but to all, as well as...
External links
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