:: CITY HISTORY ::

In 1557 the region was habited by nomadic tribes Coahuiltecas, there being you been founded as capital of the new county August 12, 1689 with the name of Santiago of the Monclova for the General Alonso de Leon.

Monclova was the capital of the State of Texas and Coahuila in 1821, and was distinguished for its capacity producer of bovine and equine livestock as well as of grain and nut. The railroad arrived in 1884 to Frontera, Coahuila. The Municipality of Castanos was founded in 1916.

The first equipment for the steel plant of High Ovens of Mexico, S.A. de C.V., arrived in 1942 and two years later they made the first Laundry of Steel. This company caused a great demographic and economic growth in Monclova and its region, ending up settling down a great quantity of other Metal-mechanical industries.

Monclova, the biggest community been founded in 1689, with a privileged strategic location, is a cosmopolitan city with a lot of strength and easiness of adaptation to the change that has gone by big tests and that with its same people agricultural cattleman, it is possible to transform into a most important industrial steel center.

The Companies that here have settled down they have been successful, they have not disappeared, what demonstrates the ability of their people to optimize the productive and competitive processes.

The Region is composed of a great diversity of characters in all the technician-scientific environments, poets, composers, religious, teachers and professionals that make of our City a very complete community.

That dynamic and cosmopolitan personality has involved us in innovative tendencies that now experience the challenge of being channeled toward a sustainable world economy of first level.
 

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Office: Parroquia del Santuario de Guadalupe.
Ave Jardines S/N, Colonia Guadalupe.
Monclova, Coahuila - Mexico.