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Town in the Mexican state of Coahuila
Municipal seat in Coahuila, Mexico
Nueva Rosita
is a town in the northeastern part of the
state
of
Coahuila
in northern
Mexico
. It lies about 11 km (7 mi) northwest of the city of
Sabinas
on
Federal Highway 57
, and serves as the municipal seat of
San Juan de Sabinas
municipality.
In 1990 the town was recorded as having a population of 36,284. The town was initially developed in the 1930s. It remains today an important manufacturing centre for the north of Mexico.
The area is the site of a
coal
mine
owned by
Grupo Mexico
. On February 19, 2006, an
explosion occurred in the mine
, trapping more than 60 miners underground.
Demographics
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The census of 2005 reported a population of 40,115 for the municipality of
San Juan de Sabinas
, of whom 36,639 lived in the community of Nueva Rosita. The municipality has an area of 735.4 km
2
(283.94 sq mi). Its second-largest town (population 1,431) is also named
San Juan de Sabinas
. The main ethnic group are mestizo(mixed European and Amerindian) and European.
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