The Río San Rodrigo is a stream in the state of

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 ...

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, and is a tributary of the

Rio Grande The Rio Grande ( and ), known in Mexico as the Río Bravo del Norte or simply the Río Bravo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The length of the Rio G ...

. The Rio San Rodrigo enters the Rio Grande (''Rio Bravo del Norte'' in Mexico) at Rio Grande

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834, at El Moral, Coahuila and about south of

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. The Rio San Rodrigo originates in the Sierra del Burro, a northern finger of the

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, and flows generally east to the Rio Grande.

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impounds the river at about river kilometer 20, creating

La Fragua Reservoir LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figur ...

. The dam began operations in 1991. The reservoir's storage capacity is .

History

In 1849 a group of

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s migrated from

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to Mexico to establish a military colony. Led by

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, a noted Seminole chief, and

John Horse John Horse (c. 1812–1882), also known as Juan Caballo, Juan Cavallo, John Cowaya (with spelling variations) and Gopher John, was of mixed ancestry (African and Seminole Indian) who fought alongside the Seminoles in the Second Seminole War in Flo ...

(Gopher John), the leader of the

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, the group consisted of about one hundred Seminoles and one hundred Black Seminoles. About five hundred

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from Missouri joined Wild Cat's group on the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass. In July, 1850, the group was admitted to Mexico. Wild Cat, representing the entire group, was assigned approximately , half at the headwaters of the Rio San Rodrigo and half at the headwaters of the Rio San Antonio. The citizens of Remolino, nearby, were not pleased and complained to the provisional government in Coahuila, which issued a decree saying that other lands would be found upon which the Indians could be settled. Nevertheless, some of the Indians did eventually settle near Remolino.

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{{Reflist Rivers of Coahuila Tributaries of the Rio Grande

History

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