Valle de Zaragoza | |
Settlement Type: | Municipal Seat |
Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
Pushpin Label Position: | above |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mexico |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Chihuahua |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Valle de Zaragoza |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 10 December 1780 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 2223 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 27.4572°N -105.8108°W |
Elevation M: | 1340 |
Valle de Zaragoza is a town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Valle de Zaragoza.
As of 2010, the town of Valle de Zaragoza had a population of 2,223,[1] up from 1,871 as of 2005.[2]
Valle de Zaragoza was founded on 10 December 1780, as Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Conchos; it later became known as Pilar de Conchos.Its current name, given to it on 28 April 1864, honours General Ignacio Zaragoza and his defeat of the French in the Battle of Puebla of 5 May 1862.