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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 ...
The mission remained at that place until 1753, when it was relocated to its current place on the western side of the Río San Pedro, to improve defensibility from native attacks. The grounds where the new settlement was founded were donated by Sergeant Major Juan Antonio Trasviña y Retes and Nueva Vizcaya governor Manuel de San Juan y Santa Cruz.
Tributaries and sub-tributaries are hierarchically listed in order from the mouth of the Rio Grande upstream. Major dams and reservoir lakes are also noted. San Juan River, or Rio San Juan (Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila) [1] [2]
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 city of Aldama dates from August 7, 1671, when Captain Pedro Cano de los Ríos established two sites for cattle raising. By 1717, the Franciscan friars established a mission called San Jerónimo there, to evangelize the local natives, known as conchos and chinarras.
Pope John Paul II came to San Juan de los Lagos to visit the image in 1990. The statue of the virgin was restored by sculptors in 2005. [9] Image of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos in her basilica. San Juan de los Lagos is the second most visited pilgrimage site in Mexico, after the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
The San Juanico disaster involved a series of fires and explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm in the settlement of San Juan Ixhuatepec (popularly known as San Juanico), a municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico, Mexico, on 19 November 1984. [1]