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Monclova
Monclova (), is a city and the seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. According to the 2015 census, the city had 231,107 inhabitants. Its metropolitan area has 381,432 inhabitants and a population density of 29.88 inhabitants per square kilometer. Monclova is the third-largest city and metropolitan area in the state in terms of population, after Torreón and Saltillo. The city accounts for the highest production of steel in Mexico as well as Latin America, hence its nickname "The Steel Capital". Today Monclova has one of the highest levels of commercial, industrial, and financial development, and is currently has one of the lowest poverty rates among Mexican cities. Its metropolitan area is among the 10 most competitive urban areas in the country, and it also has one of the highest labor productivity rates. History Established on July 25, 1577 by Spanish colonists, Monclova became the first city in the region known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Of Baján
Wells of Baján ( es, Norias de Baján) are water wells located between Saltillo and Monclova in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. The small community near the wells is called Acatita de Baján. In the first phase of the Mexican War of Independence, revolutionary leaders Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, José Mariano Jiménez, and Juan Aldama, plus nearly 900 men in the rebel army were captured here on March 21, 1811, by 150 soldiers commanded by Ignacio Elizondo. Elizondo pretended to be a supporter of the struggle to overthrow Spanish rule, lured the rebels into a trap, and captured them with little resistance. The four leaders and many of their followers were tried and executed. Background In 1810 Mexico was ruled by Spain and called New Spain. On September 16, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Roman Catholic priest, triggered the Mexican War of Independence with his speech, called in Mexico the "grito." Among Padre Hidalgo's followers were Ignacio Allende and Juan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sánchez Navarro Latifundio
The Sánchez Navarro latifundio (1765-1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in all of Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia. The Sánchez Navarro latifundio was more than five times the size of the largest ranch, the XIT, in the United States and extended from north to south. The latifundio was located in the Chihuahuan Desert, mostly in Coahuila, but also in Nuevo Leon, Durango, and Zacatecas. The acquisition of land by José Miguel Sánchez Navarro (1730-1821) began in 1765 and the latifundio existed until 1866 when the land was expropriated by the government of Mexico. Family members continued to be prominent in Mexican society into the 21st century. Throughout their history the Sánchez Navarros struggled against raids by the Comanche and Apache Indians and frequent and persistent drought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coahuila
Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of Nuevo León to the east, Zacatecas to the south, and Durango and Chihuahua to the west. To the north, Coahuila accounts for a stretch of the Mexico–United States border, adjacent to the U.S. state of Texas along the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte). With an area of , it is the nation's third-largest state. It comprises 38 municipalities ''( municipios)''. In 2020, Coahuila's population is 3,146,771 inhabitants. The largest city and State Capital is the city of Saltillo; the second largest is Torreón (largest metropolitan area in Coahuila and 9th largest in Mexico); the third largest is Monclova (a former state capital); the fourth largest is Ciudad Acuña; and the fifth largest is Piedras Negras. History The name Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monclova (municipality)
Monclova is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-eastern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Monclova. The municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ... covers an area of 1480 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 200,160. References Municipalities of Coahuila {{Coahuila-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coahuila Y Tejas
Coahuila y Tejas, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas (), was one of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution. It had two capitals: first Saltillo (1822–1825) for petition of Miguel Ramos Arizpe, that changing the capital for dispute of political groups, but Monclova recovered primacy because it was the colonial capital since 1689; this action provoked a struggle between the residents of Saltillo and Monclova in 1838–1840, but the political actions of Santa Anna convinced the monclovitas to accept the final change of political powers to Saltillo. In the case of Tejas its territory was organized for administrative purposes, with the state being divided into three districts: Béxar, comprising the area covered by Texas; Monclova, comprising northern Coahuila; and Río Grande Saltillo, comprising southern Coahuila. The state remained in existence until the adoption of the 1835 "Constitutional Bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venustiano Carranza International Airport
Venustiano Carranza International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional Venustiano Carranza, ), also known as Monclova International Airport, is an international airport located at Frontera, Coahuila, Mexico. It handles national and international air traffic for the metropolitan area of Monclova and Frontera. It handled 2,175 passengers in 2018, and 19 in 2019. The airport is named after Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. See also * List of the busiest airports in Mexico This is the list of the busiest airports in Mexico, according to the Mexican Secretariat of Communications and Transportation. The busiest airport is Mexico City International Airport in Mexico City. The top 10 includes the international airports o ... References External links MMMV at Fallingrain.MMMV at Elite Jets.MMMV photo at Our Airports. Airports in Coahuila {{Mexico-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melchor Portocarrero, 3rd Count Of Monclova
Don Melchor Portocarrero y Lasso de la Vega, 3rd Count of Monclova (1636, Madrid – September 15, 1705, Lima) was viceroy of New Spain from November 30, 1686 to November 19, 1688 and viceroy of Peru from August 1689 to 1705. Military career A lieutenant general of cavalry, Portocarrero y Lasso de la Vega distinguished himself on campaign with John of Austria the Younger in Sicily, Flanders, Catalonia and Portugal. He was in the Battle of Arras, Condé and Saint Guillaume. He lost his right arm in the Battle of the Dunes at Dunkirk in June 1658. He had a prosthesis made of silver, and his soldiers nicknamed him ''Brazo de Plata'' (Arm of Silver). He was minister of the Council of the Indies and of the Real Junta de Guerra de las Indias (Royal War Council of the Indies). He also served as captain general of New Spain during his term as viceroy. As viceroy of New Spain He was named viceroy of New Spain on April 17, 1686 under the authority of King Charles II of Spain. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( es, Virreinato de Nueva España, ), or Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and having its capital in Mexico City. Its jurisdiction comprised a huge area that included what is now Mexico, the Western and Southwestern United States (from California to Louisiana and parts of Wyoming, but also Florida) in North America; Central America, the Caribbean, very northern parts of South America, and several territorial Pacific Ocean archipelagos. After the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire, conqueror Hernán Cortés named the territory New Spain, and established the new capital, Mexico City, on the site of the Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica (Aztec) Empire. Central Mexico became the base of expeditions of exploration and conquest, expanding the territory claimed by the Spanish Empire. Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonso De León
Alonso de León "El Mozo" (c. 1639–1691) was explorer and governor, who led several expeditions into the area that is now northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. Early life Alonso de León González was born in 1639, in the settlement of Cadereyta, Nuevo León in New Spain. He was the third son of General Alonso De León, a celebrated chronicler, historian and conquistador of the frontier of Nuevo León, and Josefa González.Chipman and Joseph (1999), p. 24. To distinguish him from his father, who was also a prominent leader in the colony, sometimes the phrase, ''El Mozo,'' would later be appended to his name (or its English equivalent, "the younger"). De León trained in Spain for a naval career and joined the Spanish navy in 1657. By 1660 he had returned to Nuevo León. He was frequently appointed to lead exploratory parties, and he became an entrepreneur, most notably in salt mining. De León married Agustina Cantú and had six children with her. Expeditions In 1684, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molino En Monclova, Coahuila
Molino, Spanish and Italian for "mill", can refer to: ;People * Andrea Molino (born 1964), Italian composer and conductor * Anthony Molino (born 1957), American translator, anthropologist, and psychoanalyst * Antonio Molino Rojo (1926-2011), Spanish film actor * Fernando García del Molino (1813–99), Chilean-born Argentine portrait painter, miniaturist and lithographer * Francesco Molino (1775-1847), Italian guitarist and composer * Jean Molino (active from 1990), French semiologist at the University of Lausanne * Jorge Molino (Jorge Molino Baena, born 1988), Spanish footballer * Kevin Molino (born 1990), Trinidadian footballer * Lou Molino III (active from 1985), American drummer * Walter Molino (1915–97), Italian comics artist and illustrator ;Places * Molino, several ''barangay'' (districts) within the city of Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines * Molino, Florida, a census-designated place in Escambia County * El Molino, La Guajira, a town and municipality in the Colombian Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold R
Harold may refer to: People * Harold (given name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Harold (surname), surname in the English language * András Arató, known in meme culture as "Hide the Pain Harold" Arts and entertainment * ''Harold'' (film), a 2008 comedy film * ''Harold'', an 1876 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson * ''Harold, the Last of the Saxons'', an 1848 book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton * ''Harold or the Norman Conquest'', an opera by Frederic Cowen * ''Harold'', an 1885 opera by Eduard Nápravník * Harold, a character from the cartoon ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' * Harold & Kumar, a US movie; Harold/Harry is the main actor in the show. Places ;In the United States * Alpine, Los Angeles County, California, an erstwhile settlement that was also known as Harold * Harold, Florida, an unincorporated community * Harold, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Harold, Missouri, an unincorporated community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altos Hornos De Mexico
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