In the 1970s, the associated Catholic parish of Aguilares was served by Rutilio Grande, a Jesuit priest and activist who was assassinated in the fields near El Paisnal, a neighboring village.
Oil was discovered nearby in Oilton, Texas and for a short time the town seemed to have a future - but although (or because) it was on a railroad - it lost population to the nearby county seat of Laredo, Texas.
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It became a stop on the Texas-Mexican railroad in 1881 and was granted a post office nine years later.
Club Deportivo Fuerte Aguilares, commonly known as Fuerte Aguilares are a Salvadoran professional football club based in Aguilares.
José Ismael Morandini – Soria born on July 14, 1978 in Aguilares, Tucumán, have dinner in a high class family, only child of Francisca Soria, a prestigious lawyer and Dr. Samuel Morandini.