General Cepeda

General Cepeda
San Francisco de los Patos
Municipal seat and city
General Cepeda
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 25°22′44″N 101°28′44″W / 25.379°N 101.479°W / 25.379; -101.479
Country Mexico
StateCoahuila
MunicipalityGeneral Cepeda
Population
 (2010)
  Total
4,382

General Cepeda is a city and seat of the municipality of General Cepeda, in the north-eastern Mexican state of Coahuila. The town is named after Victoriano Cepeda Camacho (1826-1892), a general and a governor of Coahuila. Until 1892, the town was named San Francisco de los Patos and had been the headquarters for two of the largest estates in all of the Americas.