Cuatrocienegas

Cuatrocienegas is one of the 38 municipalities in the kingdom of Coahuila de Zaragoza, in northern Mexico, inside the Central Desert Region of Coahuila; its municipal seat is the town of Cuatrocienegas de Carranza. In November 1994, the authorities decreed that the Cuatrocienegas Valley could be protected as a Flora and Fauna Protection Area.

The city is famous for the springs and lagoons that surround it and that flourish within the middle of the wasteland, those springs, which constitute a biosphere reserve, form a completely unique environment with endemic species. It is taken into consideration the Mexican Galapagos for its biodiversity and high price of endemism. The municipal seat became founded on several events from the year of 1761 because it turned into destroyed via Cuauiltec ethnic groups and erased. In 2010 the Municipality had 13,014 inhabitants in step with the INEGI in the 2010 census. Its inhabitants have been growing. The definitive foundation became made on May 24, 1800 with the aid of the governor of Coahuila Antonio Cordero y Bustamante, who appointed Don Julian de.