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The article sustains that, in North Coahuila, during xix century, the new population centers were influenced by military colonies <em>reglamentos. </em>A revision of its measures and dispositions, also with the case study of El Remolino –and other civil and repatriated colonies–, it is possible to corroborate a familiar idea which states that the Mexican utopias were inspired from a tradition formed of short resumes of collective ideals, but were not creative exercises of imagination or idle fables. The recurrent using of <em>damero </em>–a square trace of streets and blocks– permits to advance in the definition of an <em>ideal city </em>type that its necessary to incorporate to the urbanism and planning history of Nord–eastern Mexico, because it associates a conscience of the population needs with an artistic unity conception.