Santiago de la Monclova, more commonly known as just Monclova in everyday speech, is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. According to the 2005 INEGI census there were 198,819 inhabitants in the city and 200,160 in the municipality. Its metropolitan area had 294,191 inhabitants and has a population density of 29.88 inhabitants per square kilometers. Monclova is the third-largest city in Coahuila. Established in 25 July 1577, become the first Ville in the region known as Coahuila, and later known as State of Coahuila. During the colonial period and the first years of the 19th...more »