Castaños
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Castaños is a city in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. It is located at 101° 25' 58" West, 26° 47' 3" North, in the state's central region (Región Centro), within Castaños Municipality. It was settled in 1582 by Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva and Gaspar Castaño de Sosa. The town was then founded on November 22, 1674.
Key facts
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- City
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- Stella_nombre_Castaños,_Coahuila.jpg
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- 300px
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- Castaños in 2019
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- 300px
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- Mexico
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- above
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- 300
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- Location in Mexico
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- Country
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- State
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- Coahuila
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- Municipality
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- Castaños
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- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 29128
- Settlement.utc_offset
- -6
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- A sign depicting the city name of Castaños. Each letter is a different color. The black text under the letters reads as "la puerta al norte de coahuila", which roughly translates to "the door to the north of Coahuila"
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Castaños is a city in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. It is located at 101° 25' 58" West, 26° 47' 3" North, in the state's central region (Región Centro), within Castaños Municipality. It was settled in 1582 by Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva and Gaspar Castaño de Sosa. The town was then founded on November 22, 1674.
==External links== Municipal information on Coahuila state website
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Castaños” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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