Laguna del Rey is a location under the authority of the municipality of Ocampo in the

Mexican state A Mexican State (), officially the Free and Sovereign State (), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, government, state governor, a ...

Coahuila Coahuila, formally Coahuila de Zaragoza, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza, is one of the 31 states of Mexico. The largest city and State Capital is the city of Saltillo; the second largest is Torreón and the thi ...

. Laguna del Rey is located 210 kilometres north of the city of

Torreón Torreón () is a city and seat of Torreón Municipality in the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Coahuila. The city's population is 720,848 inhabitants, making it the second largest city in the state of Coahuila. Also Torreón is par ...

. The area was settled during the mid-1950s because of the discovery of an underground

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with very large deposits of

sodium sulfate Sodium sulfate (also known as sodium sulphate or sulfate of soda) is the inorganic compound with formula Na2SO4 as well as several related hydrates. All forms are white solids that are highly soluble in water. With an annual production of 6 mill ...

. An industrial facility was built in order to exploit it. The deposit is now the property of Química del Rey, a company that processes the underground lagoons'

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s. The exploited sodium sulfate is used in the formulations of powder

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s. This settlement has an

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connections, a

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service and

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connections. The population of Laguna del Rey is around 3,500 inhabitants.

References

Populated places in Coahuila 1950s establishments in Mexico {{Coahuila-geo-stub