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Parras de la Fuente

Parras de la Fuente
Municipal seat
Parras de la Fuente is located in Mexico
Parras de la Fuente
Parras de la Fuente
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 25°26′25″N 102°10′45″W / 25.44028°N 102.17917°W / 25.44028; -102.17917Coordinates: 25°26′25″N 102°10′45″W / 25.44028°N 102.17917°W / 25.44028; -102.17917
Country  Mexico
State Coahuila
Municipality Parras
Founded February 18, 1598
Elevation 1,500 m (4,900 ft)
Population (2010)
 • Total 45,423
Time zone Central Standard Time (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) Central Daylight Time (UTC-5)

Parras de la Fuente (Spanish About this sound [pa'rras de la fwe'nte] ;(English: Grapevines of the Fountain) is a city located in the southern part of the Mexican state of Coahuila. The city serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding Parras Municipality, which has an area of 9,271.7 km2 (3,579.8 sq mi).

At the census of 2010, the population was 45,423. There are a large number of factories that produce denim, including a Dickies factory, and Parras is also a wine-making place. This region is the oldest wine-making in the Americas.

The former Hacienda del Rosario is the place where Parras de la Fuente was founded in 1598, by Capitán Antón Martín de Zapata. There, the revolutionary and President of Mexico Francisco I. Madero was born in 1873.

In 1846, during the Mexican–American War, Parras was held by American troops. Also, French forces were defeated there in 1866 during the French intervention in Mexico.


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