Cloete or San José de Cloete is a coal-mining town in the municipality of

Sabinas Sabinas is a city in Sabinas Municipality of the same name located in the northeastern quadrant of the state of Coahuila in Mexico. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on ...

, in the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...

Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

. It was founded in the late 19th century by

William Broderick Cloete thumb William Broderick Cloete (1851 – 7 May 1915) was a South African-born British industrialist active in the border zones between Mexico and the United States in the late 19th century. He and Robert Symon, an industrialist from Boston ...

, a British mine-owner. It adopted his name following his death in the sinking of in 1915. In the 2005 INEGI Census it reported a population of 3,977.

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: :Altitude: 360 m :Postal code: 26960 :Area code: 861 {{Portal, Mexico, Energy Populated places in Coahuila Coal mines in Mexico Mining communities in Mexico Populated places established in the 19th century