ATDTDA (17): Coahuila (465.23)

[Tim Strzechowski]

"Now Frank, I never got to tell you how terrible that was about your Pa.  You seen much of the subhuman pustules that done it?"

"Workin on it," said Frank, who since the half-second of otherworldliness down in Coahuila had found nobody really to talk to about it."  (p. 465)


Coahuila (formal name: Coahuila de Zaragoza) is one of Mexico's 31 component states. It is located in the north of the country.

To the north Coahuila accounts for a 512 kilometers (318 mi) 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 also 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. With an area of 151,571 square kilometers (58,521.9 sq mi), it is the nation's third biggest state. It comprises 38 municipalities (municipios). In 2005 Coahuila had a population of 2,495,200 inhabitants.

The capital of Coahuila is the city of Saltillo. Coahuila also includes the cities of Monclova (a former state capital), Piedras Negras, and Torreón (the biggest metro of the state). [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coahuila

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mexcoahu/history.html

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9024500/Coahuila