CONTEMPORANEUS HISTORY

September 2ND 1932, the city undergoes its 2ª great flood with great material losses, with the overflowing of the Bravo River. Event that repeated June 28th 1954, with serious damages that could not be quantified, only the loss of 60 lives was accounted, although superior numbers were handled.

April 4th 2004 is also remembered with a flooding, in which the waters of Escondido River and San Antonio, devastated Villa de Fuente and some of the surrounding colonies with the results already known, the misfortune of lives lost.

The city is not conceited of beautiful, but for the great quality of its people, that today, is its greatest richness; of 31.665 people that in 1954 survived the flood, that number wanes when adding itself a digit more, than it reaches 200 thousands, now with new conglomerates, better communications, modernity in all senses, like his fame of clean city, award that maintained during seven consecutive years. And of that aged ford on the Bravo River, in where the eagle dares to settle, where the mexicanity is by excellence a patriotic symbol, where the frank hospitality is showed before the visitor; here, where the Piedras Negras nobleman stoically endures the extreme weather, that is proud of its ancestry of braveness and heroism, stated throughout 155 years of history, of a city that refused to die in several occasions victim of misfortune , by the terrible floods of 1890, of 1932, of 1954 that almost eliminates us from the map, and from year 2004, which left a traumatic sequel and much pain that refuses to heal; Here where we hoisted the pavilion with the eagle and the coal with elegance, a pavilion that we proudly maintain, those who we have been born here and those who have chosen Piedras Negras to settle their roots.

Profr. Otto Schober
Historian
2005