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This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. ... Balleza River (San Juan River) San Fernando River (Conchos ...
San Francisco de Conchos is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. [1] The municipal seat lies at San Francisco de Conchos. The municipality covers an area of 1,169.1 km². As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 2,983, [2] up from 2,669 as of 2005. [3]
The most nearly successful of these attempts was the 1683–1685 outpost at San Bruno, only about 20 kilometers north of Loreto, among the Cochimí. This failure by Admiral Isidro de Atondo y Antillón and the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino led directly to the success at Loreto 12 years later.
San Francisco de Conchos was founded by Fray Alonso de la Oliva, a young missionary who wanted to preach to indigenous communities. In 1604, he founded the Mission San Francisco de los Naturales del Rio de las Conchas, a Franciscan mission. The name "Conchos" comes from the many small shells that were found in the river bed.
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The Pasta de Conchos mine disaster occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m. CST on February 19, 2006, after a methane explosion within a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, San Juan de Sabinas Municipality, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The mines were run by Grupo México, the largest mining company in the country. It was estimated that 65 miners, who ...
La Boquilla Dam (Spanish: Presa de la Boquilla) is a masonry arch-gravity dam on the Rio Conchos in Chihuahua, Mexico.It was built in 1910 to provide hydroelectricity, irrigation and flood control, and forms Toronto Lake with a capacity of 2.903 cubic kilometres (2,354,000 acre⋅ft). [1]
Fed. 120 in San Juan del Río Fed. 71 in San Francisco de los Romo Fed. 49 in Troncoso, Las Palmas y Jiménez Fed. 54 in Zacatecas Fed. 40 in Durango Fed. 23 in Durango Fed. 34 in Conejo Fed. 24 in Hidalgo del Parral Fed. 16 in Chihuahua City Fed. 10 in El Sueco. Fed. 2 in Ciudad Juárez: North end: I-110 at the Mexico–US border at El Paso ...