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Carreras is a small town located in the Mexican state of Durango. The town is part of Tepehuanes Municipality. Carreras has a small population of mostly retired people, with tourism during the summer and the winter. Tourists mostly consist of the children of migrant parents from the United States mostly from California, Nevada, Illinois, Texas, Georgia and Virginia. Children usually ride ATV's around the towns dirt roads but recently the roads were paved. Occasionally, the town hosts various "Coleaderas" (rodeos) in the town's "Lienzo charro".
My grandparents moved from Carreras to Guzman Y Hernandez (La Noria) in 1952. Jesus Alarcon Saucedo and Pascuala Nevarez Alvarez. Those were bad years for land-plowing (no rain) and several families moved out. One thing of note is that unlike other pueblos in Mexico, the people from Carreras kept their traditions that they brought from Spain intact and they have an accent that distinguishes them from other towns.