Coahuila

Coahuila is a state in . Coahuila is not a very touristy state when compared to other parts of the country, but it has several attractions, especially related to outdoor activities in the semi-desert climate.
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is the capital of Coahuila state. is a beautiful colonial city in Northern Mexico. It is a traditional city with a colorful history. Interior designers know for its famous thick, lightly glazed, earthen ceramic floor tiles, and the brightly colored shawls known as sarapes are part of the city's colorful tradition.

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is a city of 735,000 people in Coahuila state in . It forms the Comarca Lagunera - known as the Cradle of the Mexican Revolution - with the neighboring cities of Gómez Palacios, Lerdo, Matamoros and several municipalities of Coahuila and Durango.

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is a city in Coahuila. It is a working class city known for its massive industry, including a steel works and an enormous power generating station.

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is a city of 165,000 people in northern Coahuila opposite the city of , Texas, on the banks of the Rio Grande. It has various places for recreation, such as the Plaza de las Culturas, the Paseo del Río and the Gran Plaza.

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is a city of 216,000 people in Coahuila, on the Rio Grande, which marks the U.S.-Mexico border. It attracts cross-border tourism from the U.S. with handicraft shops, hotels, typical restaurants and international cuisine.

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is a city in Coahuila. The town is known for its wine. It was the first wine growing region in the Americas. The town is a Pueblo Mágico, designated in 2004. Parras is called the oasis of the semi-desert of Coahuila state.

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is a small mountain town in the northern state of Coahuila, . With its constant mild temperatures and surrounding pine forests, the town is a popular weekend getaway for city dwellers in and .

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is a small town in the desert of southern Coahuila, . It is known for its desert landscapes with rolling sand dunes called the Bilbao Dunes. The town is one of Mexico's designated .

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is a small city of about 45,000 residents in the southwest part of the state of Coahuila in northern . The town has a long official name, but don't worry if you can't remember it, neither does anyone else: it's always referred to as simply San Pedro.

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Cuatrociénegas is a desert oasis in northern . It is a protected natural reserve where unique plant and animal species thrive in the cool pools, called pozas, fed by underground waters percolating up through the desert floor.

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is a town in the state of Coahuila. It is an interesting town with an indigenous population of Kickapoo and Seminole Indians who fled the United States in the mid 19th century.

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is a historic town in the northern state of Coahuila, . The region was once an active hotbed for evangelization of native indigenous groups during the colonial era where it was the hub for the so-called San Juan Bautisto missions.

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is a small town in eastern Coahuila, near the border with Nuevo Leon. It's known for its Mexican Revolution history as a stronghold of Venustiano Carranza's army of constitutionalists, as well as its natural scenery and semi-desert climate with rivers, parks, mountains, and caves.

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is a small town in the state of Coahuila. Travelers with an interest in archaeology and paleontology will like this place because a number of fossils and dinosaur bones were found nearby, leading to the establishment of a local paleontology museum.
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Coahuila

Latitude of center
27.3333° or 27° 20′ north
Longitude of center
-102° or 102° west
Population
3,150,000
Elevation
1,307 metres (4,288 feet)
Abbreviation
“COA”
Abbreviation
“Coah”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305626896
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4013674
Wiki­data ID
Q53079
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Coahuila” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Coahuila”
  • Arabic: “كواهويلا”
  • Arabic: “كواويلا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية كواهويلا”
  • Arabic: “ولايه كواهويلا”
  • Aragonese: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Armenian: “Կոաուիլա”
  • Asturian: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Aymara: “Coahuila Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Koauila”
  • Balinese: “Coahuila”
  • Basque: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Belarusian: “Кааўіла”
  • Belarusian: “Кааўіля”
  • Belarusian: “штат Кааўіла”
  • Bengali: “কোয়াউইলা”
  • Breton: “Coahuila”
  • Bulgarian: “Коауила де Сарагоса”
  • Catalan: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Catalan: “Coahuila”
  • Cebuano: “Estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Chechen: “Коауила”
  • Cheyenne: “Coahuila”
  • Chinese: “Coahuila Chiu”
  • Chinese: “科阿韋拉州”
  • Chinese: “科阿韦拉州”
  • Cornish: “Coahuila”
  • Croatian: “Coahuila”
  • Czech: “Coahuila”
  • Danish: “Coahuila”
  • Dutch: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كواويلا”
  • Esperanto: “Coahuila”
  • Esperanto: “Koaŭilo”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Coahuila”
  • Estonian: “Coahuila osariik”
  • Estonian: “Coahuila”
  • Finnish: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Finnish: “Coahuila”
  • French: “Coahuila”
  • Galician: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Galician: “Coahuila”
  • Georgian: “კოაუილა”
  • German: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • German: “Coahuila”
  • Greek: “Κοαουίλα”
  • Gujarati: “કોઆહુઈલા”
  • Hausa: “Coahuila”
  • Hebrew: “קואווילה”
  • Hindi: “कोहुइला”
  • Hungarian: “Coahuila”
  • Icelandic: “Coahuila”
  • Ido: “Coahuila”
  • Iloko: “Coahuila”
  • Indonesian: “Coahuila”
  • Interlingua: “Coahuila”
  • Irish: “Coahuila”
  • Italian: “Coahuila”
  • Japanese: “コアウイラ州”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಹುಲಾಲಾ”
  • Korean: “코아우일라주”
  • Ladino: “Coahuila”
  • Ladino: “Koahuila”
  • Latin: “Coahuila”
  • Latvian: “Koavila de Saragosa”
  • Lithuanian: “Koahuila”
  • Macedonian: “Коавила”
  • Malagasy: “Coahuila”
  • Malay: “Coahuila”
  • Marathi: “कोआविला”
  • Mazanderani: “کواویلا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Coahuila Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Coahuila de Zaragoza (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Northern Luri: “کواویلا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Coahuila”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Coahuila”
  • Norwegian: “Coahuila”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Coahuila de Saragossa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Coahuila”
  • Ossetian: “Коауилæ”
  • Pampanga: “Coahuila”
  • Persian: “کواویلا”
  • Piemontese: “Coahuila”
  • Pipil: “Coahuila”
  • Polish: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Polish: “Coahuila”
  • Portuguese: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Portuguese: “Coahuila”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Coahuila”
  • Quechua: “Coahuila suyu”
  • Romanian: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Romanian: “Coahuila”
  • Romansh: “Coahuila”
  • Russian: “Коауила”
  • Scots: “Coahuila”
  • Serbian: “Коавила”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Coahuila”
  • Sinhala: “කාඔහුයිලා”
  • Sinhala: “කොහුයිලා ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Coahuila”
  • Slovenian: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Slovenian: “Coahuila”
  • Spanish: “Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Spanish: “Coahuila”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza”
  • Swahili: “Coahuila”
  • Swedish: “Coahuila”
  • Tagalog: “Coahuila”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Коаюила де Зарагоза”
  • Tajik: “Коауила”
  • Tamil: “கோகுய்லா”
  • Tatar: “Коавила (штат)”
  • Tatar: “Коавила”
  • Tatar: “Коауила”
  • Telugu: “కోహిలా”
  • Thai: “รัฐโกอาวิลา”
  • Thai: “รัฐโกอาวีลา”
  • Tumbuka: “Coahuila”
  • Turkish: “Coahuila”
  • Ukrainian: “Коауїла”
  • Urdu: “كواہويلا”
  • Uzbek: “Koauila”
  • Venetian: “Coahuila”
  • Vietnamese: “Coahuila”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Coahuila”
  • Welsh: “Coahuila”
  • Western Panjabi: “کواہویلا”
  • Wu Chinese: “科阿韦拉州”
  • Yue Chinese: “科阿韋拉州”
  • “Coahuila”
  • “Kwawillan”
  • “Kwawillan Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Kwawillan Tlatilantli”
  • “Kwawillan Zaragoza”
  • “ma Kowawila”
  • “Mahkawtok Tlahtohkayotl tlen Kwawillan”
  • “Mahkawtok Tlatilantli tlen Kwawillan”

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