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A typical scene in the Chihuahua desert. The Sánchez Navarro ranch (1765–1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than 67,000 square kilometres (16,500,000 acres) of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia.
Carlos Hilario Pereyra Gómez ( Saltillo, Coahuila 1871 – Madrid, Spain 1942) was a Mexican lawyer, diplomat, writer and historian. His background was highly influenced by late 19th century Positivism, so this influence is denoted in his works. He was also a Hispanist, defender of the historical and cultural legacy of Spain in Spanish America ...
San Juan de Sabinas Municipality. / 27.92917°N 101.30333°W / 27.92917; -101.30333. San Juan de Sabinas is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-eastern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Nueva Rosita. The municipality covers an area of 735.4 km 2 . As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 40,115.
Múzquiz is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-eastern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Santa Rosa de Múzquiz. The municipality covers an area of 8,128.9 square kilometres (3,138.6 sq mi). As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 62,710. [1] Of these, 242 spoke an indigenous language, primarily Kickapoo and Nahuatl.
The mission was officially founded on March 1, 1700 by Sargento mayor Diego Ramón, with Franciscan missonaries Antonio de Olivares and Francisco Hidalgo in attendance. It was originally located 5 miles (8.0 km) from the Rio Grande in Coahuila state, northeastern Mexico, in what is today the Municipality of Guerrero. [3]
Gustavo Adolfo Madero González (16 January 1875 – 18 February 1913), born in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, Mexico, was a participant in the Mexican Revolution against Porfirio Díaz along with other members of his wealthy family. He was also known as "Ojo Parado" ("staring eye") since he had one glass eye. [1]
General Cepeda is a city and seat of the municipality of General Cepeda, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Coahuila. [ 1] The town is named after Victoriano Cepeda Camacho (1826-1892), a general and a governor of Coahuila. Until 1892, the town was named San Francisco de los Patos and had been the headquarters for two of the largest estates ...
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (English: The Royal Road of the Interior Land), also known as the Silver Route, [1] was a Spanish 2,560-kilometre-long (1,590 mi) road between Mexico City and San Juan Pueblo (Ohkay Owingeh), New Mexico (in the modern U.S.), that was used from 1598 to 1882. It was the northernmost of the four major "royal roads ...