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Coatzacoalcos

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Coatzacoalcos (kwätsäkwäl`kōs), city (1990 pop. 198,817), Veracruz state, E central Mexico, at the mouth of the Coatzacoalcos River. It is a port on the Gulf of Campeche, as well as the northern terminus of rail traffic across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Highway communications are also good. The city is an important commercial center; oil, sulfur, and timber are exported.


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Alberto Athie got Bishop Carlos Talavera of Coatzacoalcos to take up the Maciel matter with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, now Pope Benedict XVI.
Francois Giordan tuvo la oportunidad de visitar Coatzacoalcos al termino de la guerra de Independencia y le parecio como Tours (Gonzalez Navarro, 1993: 169); de esta suerte, prendado de la belleza de la region istmena, se asocio con Laisine de Villeveque para colonizar la zona gracias a una concesion que recibieron del gobierno de Guadalupe Victoria a mediados de 1828.
The most serious of the incidents concerned a cracked pipeline, which spilled about 7,000 barrels of oil into the Jaltepec, Chiquito, and Coatzacoalcos rivers.
 
 
 
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