Ciudad Frontera

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Ciudad Frontera is a town in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. It is in the east-central part of the state, just west of the city of Monclova. It is located at 101° 27' 9" West, 26° 55 '36" North, in the state's central region (Región Centro). There were 65,606 inhabitants in the city as of the 2005 census, making it the state's sixth-largest community. The city serves as municipal seat of its surrounding Frontera municipality, which had a population of 70,160 and includes numerous small outlying communities such as Ocho de Enero. The municipality is part of the Monclova-Frontera metropolitan area.

[edit] References

• Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática

[edit] External links

• Municipal information on Coahuila state website (in Spanish)