Piedras Negras could be a town and seat of the encompassing municipality of an equivalent name within the Mexican state of Coahuila. It stands at the northeastern fringe of Coahuila on the U.S.-Mexico border, across the Río Bravo from Eagle Pass within the U.S. State of Texas. Within the 2010 census town had a population of a hundred and fifty,178 people, that accounted for ninety eight.28 p.c of its municipality’s total population of 152,806. The municipality’s space is comparatively little, however will embrace some far minor localities not situated within town limits.
The city was based in 1849. It absolutely was renamed Ciudad Porfirio Díaz in 1888, in respect to President Porfirio Díaz, however reverted to its original name following the revolution. In Spanish Piedras Negras interprets to “black stones” – a respect to the coal deposits that exist within the space. Across the stream, coal was erst deep-mined on the United States facet at Dolchburg, close to Eagle Pass. This mine closed around 1905, when a hearth.
On fifteen June 1850, a bunch of thirty four men Maldonado to offer the news that they’d created a pass purpose at Piedras Negras, to the correct of the Rio Grande, south of Fort Duncan; and having given it the name of: Nueva Villa DE Herrera. Presently it might be renamed Villa DE Piedras Negras.
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