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Cuatro Ciénegas
Cuatro Ciénegas is a city and municipality in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. It stands at , at a mean height of 740 metres above sea level.
It is located in the state's desert region (Región Desierto). Cuatro Ciénegas is Spanish for "four marshes": the name was chosen by the first settlers because of the natural springs in the vicinity that create extensive areas of wetland and lakes.
Several failed settlements were founded here prior to the successful establishment of a town by Antonio Cordero y Bustamante on 24 May 1800. The settlement's original name was Nuestra Señora de los Dolores y Cuatro Ciénegas, which was later changed to Villa Venustiano Carranza, before finally settling on its current name.
The city is formally known as Cuatro Ciénegas de Carranza, in honour of its most famous son: Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico from 1915 to 1920, who was born there in 1859.
The municipality reported 12,154 inhabitants in the year 2000 census.
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