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n. A state of Mexico.
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Coahuila , formally Coahuila de Zaragoza , officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza , is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is located in Northeastern Mexico on the US border.
Coahuila borders the Mexican states of Nuevo León to the east, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí to the south, and Durango and Chihuahua to the west. To the north, Coahuila accounts for a stretch of the Mexico–United States border, adjacent to the U.S. state of Texas along the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte). With an area of , it is the nation's third-largest state. It comprises 38 municipalities ( municipios). In 2010, Coahuila's population is 2,748,391 inhabitants.
The five largest cities in Coahuila are the state capital city of Saltillo; the second largest is Torreón, third largest is Monclova (a former state capital), fourth largest is Ciudad Acuña, and fifth largest is Piedras Negras.
Usage examples of "coahuila".
He pointed at the Scotsman, who stood and gestured toward a large tactical map of Texas and Coahuila that had been nailed to the wall.
One came in from the west, through Coahuila and across the Rio Grande.
Like Rawson and his pals, they needed a base of operations en route between Coahuila and.
The boy had bought his fancy rifle in Mexico City, and he had stopped a train in Coahuila, and another in Van Horn, Texas.
Rumor in Fort Stockton had it that Joey had gone back to Coahuila, but no one really had the details, and Call didn't know how much credit to give the rumor.
He needed to see the governor of Coahuila, and the errand couldn't wait.
In Chihuahua and Coahuila he’d been the fastest gun in northern Mexico, killing the likes of Luis Ortega, Manuel Soto, and the worst of them all in a pistol duel, Emiliano Zambrano.
That is why the people of Coahuila call the place the Llano de los Gigantes, the desert of giants.
Senator Vincente of Coahuila, Senator Kaiser of Oregon, Senator Brand of Maine, Senator Petterson of New Jersey, and Minister Stanislaus of Newfoundland, ^ Petterson opened the meeting in her usual no-nonsense, let's-get-on-with-it tones, "The Committee for Maritime Resources, Organic, is now in session.
Then quietly they dismounted and unslung their clothes from about their necks and dressed and led the horses up out of the willow breaks and gravel benches and out upon the plain where they mounted and rode south onto the dry scrublands of Coahuila.