San Juan de Sabinas | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Mapsize: | 300px |
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: | Coahuila |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipal seat |
Subdivision Name2: | Nueva Rosita |
Area Total Km2: | 735.4 |
Population As Of: | 2005 |
Population Total: | 40,115 |
Coordinates: | 27.9292°N -101.3033°W |
Elevation M: | 382 |
San Juan de Sabinas is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-eastern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Nueva Rosita. The municipality covers an area of 735.4 km2.
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 40,115.[1]
In 1908, it was the scene of the Mina Rosita Vieja disaster, the worst disaster in Mexico's coal mining history.