Coahuila (formal title: Coahuila diamond state Zaragoza) is one of Mexico's 31 component states. These are in the northerly of the united states.

North Coahuilthe accounts for a 512 kilometre stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, adjacent to the U.S. state of Texas along the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte). Coahuila too borders on the Mexican states of Nuevo León to the east; San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas to the south; and Durango and Chihuahua to the west. Sustaining an front yard of 151,571 kilometre², these are a united states's third large state. It is 38 municipalities (municipios). Inside 2000 Coahuila had an guessed people of a few 2,300,000 indweller.

A capital of Coahuila is the city of Saltillo. Coahuila too includes a cities of Monclova (a previous state capital), Piedras Negras, and Torreón.

History

A Spanish explored a northward of Mexico occasionally decades fallowing their triumph in the capital of the Aztecs, because northwards climate was coarse, because there was there is no gold there, & because it were attacked by indigen. In the 16th century, Mexico & Guatemala were involved in the vice-royalty of New Spain which included Nueva Extremadura. Coahuila was section of Nueva Extremadura. Francisco Cano was one of the earliest Europeans to choose Nueva Extremadura.

Coahuila y Tejas ("Coahuila and Texas") was one of a constitutive states of the recently independent United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution. Lot of the territory of Texas seceded within 1836, to form the Republic of Texas.

In February 19, 1856, Santiago Vidaurri annexed Coahuila to his state, Nuevo León.

In a period of the Mexican Revolution, Francisco Villa attacked the city of Torreón.

In April 5, 2004, the border city of Piedras Negras was flooded. Additional than Thirty population died & supplementary than 4000 misused their homes.

Municipalities

Coahuila is subdivided into 5 regions & 38 municipalities (municipios). For the to the full listings sustaining municipal seats, look at: municipalities of Coahuila

List of governors
This names is uncomplete

José María Garza Galán (?-1893) José María Múzquiz (1894) Miguel Cárdenas (1894-1904) Jesús Valle Venustiano Carranza (1911-1913) Gustavo Espinoza Mireles (1917-1920) Luis Gutiérrez Ortiz (1920-1921) Arnulfo González (1921-1923) Carlos Garza Castro (1923-1925) Manuel Pérez Treviño (1925-1929) Bruno Neira González (1929-1929) Nazario Ortiz Garza (1929-1933) Jesús Valdez Sánchez (1933-1937) Pedro Rodríguez Triana (1937-1941) Gabriel Cervera Riza (1941-1941) Benecio López Padilla (1941-1945) Ignacio Cepeda Dávila (1945-1947) Ricardo Ainslie Rivera (1947-1948) Paz Faz Risa (1948-1948) Raúl López Sáchez (1948-1951) Roman Cepeda Flores (1951-1957) Raúl Madero González (1957-1963) Braulio Fernández Aguirre (1963-1969) Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño (1969-1975) Oscar Flores Tapia (1975-1981) Francisco José Madero González (1981-1981) José de las Fuentes Rodríguez (1981-1987) Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto (1987-1993) Rogelio Montemayor Seguy (1993-1999) Enrique Martínez y Martínez (December 1, 1999 – )