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
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Stella_nombre_Castaños,_Coahuila.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Castaños in 2019
- Settlement.mapsize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Mexico
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Coahuila
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Castaños
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 29128
- Settlement.utc_offset
- -6
- Settlement.image_alt
- 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"
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Castaños
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Castaños Municipality
- Population
- 27314
- Elevation
- 747
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Capital of
- Castaños Municipality
- Image
- Stella nombre Castaños, Coahuila.jpg
- Dialing code
- 866
- Licence plate code
- 5
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- Commons category
- Castaños, Coahuila
- native label
- Castaños
- postal code
- 25870
- inception
- 1674-11-22
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Encyclopedic overview
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- External links
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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