Conchos
Americannoun
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After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine intervention.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025
The 2006 tragedy in the nearby Pasta de Conchos mine, where 65 miners died after a gas build-up caused a fire and explosion, was still fresh in their minds.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
Things are better below the Conchos, but that may change: Mexico, which controls the Conchos upstream, is planning to impound more of its water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2018
The Pasta de Conchos accident deepened mistrust between Grupo Mexico and unions, which are pushing for improved safety regulations at Mexican mines.
From Reuters ● May 6, 2011
The shortage of Indian labor in the mines there resulted by 1580 in slave hunting raids down the Conchos River and across the Rio Grande into modern Texas.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
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