Doctor Coss is both a city and a municipality in

Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...

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. It is located at , 182 km NE of

Monterrey Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...

. Its name honors Dr. José María Coss, a liberal politician of the 19th century. In 2000 the municipality had 2246 inhabitants, while the homonym city (which serves as the municipal seat) had some 1,000. The first settlement, Paso del Zacate, was formed around 1745 with families from

Los Aldamas Los Aldamas is a municipality located in the northeast part of the Mexican state of Nuevo León. Its geographic coordinates are {{coord, 26, 03, N, 99, 11, W}. It is bordered to the north by the state of Tamaulipas, to the south with the municipal ...

and General Bravo. Almost a century later ''Paso del Zacate'' was declared a ''villa'' by the state congress and finally, on October 7, 1882, the municipality of Doctor Coss was formed with the unification of Paso del Zacate, Zacate, Soledad, El Ebanito, La Lajilla, Los Chorros, Tecomate, Lucero, Las Mujeres and Gachupines. The municipality has an area of 664.6 km² and is bordered by the state of

Tamaulipas Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...

to the north, General Bravo to the east and Los Aldama and

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to the west. It is located 134 meters above sea level (which makes it the highest municipality in the state) and is crossed by the San Juan river. Doctor Coss has 4 kindergartens, 14 elementary schools and one secondary school.

List of mayors in Dr. Coss

External links

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Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México: Doctor Coss
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INEGI: Municipalities of Nuevo León
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