Arteaga, Coahuila

Arteaga
Arteaga
Coordinates: 25°27′N 100°50′W / 25.450°N 100.833°W / 25.450; -100.833Coordinates: 25°27′N 100°50′W / 25.450°N 100.833°W / 25.450; -100.833
Country	Mexico
State	Coahuila
Municipality	Arteaga
Founded	31 October 1591 (Francisco de Urdiñola)
Government
• Mayor	José de Jesús Duran Flores
Elevation	1,660 m (5,450 ft)
Population  (2000)
• Total	6,042
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (US Central))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central)
Postal code	25350

Arteaga (Spanish pronunciation: [aɾteˈaɣa] (listen)) is a city in the Mexican state of Coahuila. It serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name.

Arteaga is located at

25°27′01.7″N 100°50′56.4″W / 25.450472°N 100.849000°W / 25.450472; -100.849000, at a height of 1,660 meters (5,450 ft) above sea level. It stands some 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) east of state capital Saltillo, on Federal Highways 57 and 54.

The municipality covers a total surface area of 1,818.60 square kilometers (702.17 sq mi) and, in 1995, reported a total population of 18,907. In addition to the municipal seat, it contains the settlements of San Antonio de las Alazanas, El Tunal, , Huachichil, , , Bella Unión, Escobedo, and .

Artega residents often boast that they have a year-round median temperature of 72○F., and say theirs is the "most perfect" climate in North America.

The area was first inhabited by settlers from Tlaxcala in 1580, who named it San Isidro de las Palomas. On 29 December 1866 it was renamed in honour of General , a 19th-century national hero and governor of the state of Querétaro de Arteaga.

It includes the congregation of Landeros, which was named after an American soldier of Irish descent, who after the army's march through the area in the 1840s, settled there.

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