Sacramento is a city in the northern

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

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 ...

. The city serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name. Sacramento is located at in the state's central region ''(Región Centro)'', some 250 km north of state capital Saltillo, and some 50 km north-west of former state capital

Monclova Monclova (), is a city and the seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. According to the 2015 census, the city had 231,107 inhabitants. Its metropolitan area has 381,432 inhabitants and ...

, on Federal Highway 30. It was founded in 1842 as Villa Nueva. It is believed to have changed its name to Sacramento ("

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") to honour a visit by Fr.

Miguel Hidalgo Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or Miguel Hidalgo (), was a Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican Wa ...

during which he officiated a

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External links

Sacramento municipal webpage
(in Spanish)

''Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México'',

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{{Authority control Populated places in Coahuila 1842 establishments in Mexico