Múzquiz, formally Ciudad Melchor Múzquiz, is a small city in northern Coahuila that sits where the Sabinas River rises. It began as a Spanish frontier garrison in the 1730s and is named for a local son, Melchor Múzquiz, who served as president of Mexico in 1832. It is a quiet base for getting to know the history and landscape of this corner of the north.
History
Múzquiz began as a military outpost. In the mid-1730s the viceroy Juan Antonio de Vizarrón ordered a presidio established in this part of Coahuila to hold back attacks by the nomadic peoples of the north. The settlement was founded under the name Santa Rosa, with the name approved by the viceroy in 1737, and in 1740 it was moved to its present site at the source of the Sabinas River.
Melchor Múzquiz was born in Santa Rosa in 1790 and went on to serve as interim president of Mexico in 1832. In 1850 the town was renamed Villa de Múzquiz in his honor. In 1925 it was raised to the rank of city and took the name Ciudad Melchor Múzquiz to match its new legal status. It joined the Pueblos Mágicos program in 2018.
Climate warm
Best months to visit: Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov (driest months with comfortable afternoons)
Average daily high and low (°C) and monthly rainfall, 2020–2024.
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Where it is
Múzquiz within Mexico
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Getting there
- Fly into PDS: Piedras Negras International Airport, about 127 km away in a straight line
Drive times are estimates from OpenStreetMap routing, without traffic.
Nearby Pueblos Mágicos
114 km away
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Sources: population from Wikidata (may count the whole municipality) · elevation and climate from Open-Meteo · airports from OurAirports (straight-line distance).