Gómez Palacio is a city and its surrounding municipality in northeastern Durango, Mexico, located at adjacent to the border with the state of Coahuila. The city is named in honor of former Durango governor Francisco Gómez Palacio y Bravo.
In the 2005 census the population of the city of Gómez Palacio was 239,842 people, making it the state’s second-largest community. The municipality’s population was 304,515. The municipality’s area is 990.2 km² (382.3 sq mi). The municipality and city are part of a large metropolitan area which includes the municipalities of Torreón and Matamoros in Coahuila, as well as Lerdo in Durango. The metropolitan area had an official population of 1,110,890 persons in 2005.
The history of the city dates back to the old hacienda Santa Rosa, founded on August 30, 1840, by Juan Ignacio Giménez, Rafael Mendrichaga, Joaquín Iturribarria, Pedro Medieta and Irramendí Julian, the old farm was located down the hill and along the “Santa Rosa” known today as the hill of “country or” star”

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