Piedras Negras

Piedras Negras is a city of 165,000 people in northern 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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  • Type: City with 174,000 residents
  • Description: municipal seat of Piedras Negras, State of Coahuila, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Ciudad Porfirio Diaz”, “Ciudad Porfirio Díaz”, and “Piedras Negras, Coahuila”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eagle Pass–Piedras Negras International Bridge and Union Pacific International Railroad Bridge.

Bridge
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The is an international bridge that crosses the and connects the United States-Mexico border cities of , and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

Bridge
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The is the only railway international bridge that crosses the U.S.-Mexico border between the cities of , and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

Bridge
Photo: Mquirarte, CC BY 3.0.
The is an international bridge which crosses the connecting the United States-Mexico border cities of , and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eagle Pass.

Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city on the . It is just across the river from the slightly larger city of Piedras Negras in the state of .

Piedras Negras

Latitude
28.6913° or 28° 41′ 29″ north
Longitude
-100.5403° or 100° 32′ 25″ west
Population
174,000
Elevation
223 metres (732 feet)
IATA airport code
PDS
United Nations Location Code
MX PIE
Open location code
75WXMFR5+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 297154255
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3992619
Wiki­data ID
Q1856408
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Piedras Negras” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيدراس نيغراس”
  • Bengali: “পিয়েদ্রাস নেগ্রাস”
  • Catalan: “Piedras Negras”
  • Cebuano: “Piedras Negras”
  • Central Kurdish: “پیدراس نێگراس”
  • Chechen: “Пьедрас Неграс (Пьедрас Неграс, Коауила)”
  • Chechen: “Пьедрас Неграс”
  • Chinese: “彼德拉斯內格拉斯”
  • Chinese: “彼德拉斯内格拉斯”
  • Chinese: “墨西哥”
  • Danish: “Piedras Negras”
  • Dutch: “Piedras Negras”
  • Esperanto: “Piedras Negras (urbo)”
  • Esperanto: “Piedras Negras”
  • Finnish: “Piedras Negras”
  • French: “Piedras Negras”
  • German: “Piedras Negras”
  • Greek: “Πιέδρας Νέγρας”
  • Gujarati: “પિએડ્રાસ નેગ્રેસ”
  • Hebrew: “פיידראס נגראס”
  • Hindi: “पिएद्रस नेग्रास”
  • Hungarian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Indonesian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Irish: “Piedras Negras”
  • Italian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Japanese: “ピエドラス・ネグラス (メキシコ)”
  • Japanese: “ピエドラス・ネグラス”
  • Japanese: “ピエドラスネグラス”
  • Kannada: “ಪೈಡ್ರಸ್ ನೆಗ್ರಾಸ್”
  • Korean: “피에드라스 네그라스”
  • Korean: “피에드라스네그라스”
  • Latvian: “Piedras Negrasa, Koavila”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjedras Negrasas”
  • Malay: “Piedras Negras”
  • Marathi: “पिअड्रास नेग्रस”
  • Navajo: “Tsé Łizhinii”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piedras Negras”
  • Norwegian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Persian: “پیدراس نگراس، کواویلا”
  • Persian: “پیدراس نگراس”
  • Polish: “Piedras Negras”
  • Portuguese: “Piedras Negras”
  • Russian: “Пьедрас-Неграс”
  • Serbian: “Пиједрас Неграс”
  • Serbian: “Пједрас Неграс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Piedras Negras, Piedras Negras”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Sinhala: “පෙද්රස් නිග්රාස්”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Porfirio Diaz”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Porfirio Díaz”
  • Spanish: “Piedras Negras”
  • Spanish: “Piedrasnegras”
  • Swedish: “Piedras Negras”
  • Tamil: “பிஎட்ரஸ் நெக்ராஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Пьедрас-Неграс”
  • Telugu: “పెడ్రాస్ నెగ్రస్”
  • Thai: “ปีดราส เนกราส”
  • Turkish: “Piedras Negras, Coahuila”
  • Turkish: “Piedras Negras”
  • Ukrainian: “П’єдрас-Неграс”
  • Urdu: “پیئدراس نیگراس، كواہويلا”
  • Urdu: “پیئدراس نیگراس”
  • Venetian: “Piedras Negras”
  • Vietnamese: “Piedras Negras”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Piedras Negras”
  • Welsh: “Piedras Negras”

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