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General Francisco Montaño de la Cueva led the campaign against the insurgents, rounding them up and immediately imposing the peace. From Valle de Allende, the friars and Spanish residents were evacuated to Villa López before the raiders arrived but they were unable to prevent the Apache from burning the convent and the sanctuary. The Apaches then immediately attacked the town of San Pedro de Conchos there, the missionary left before befalling any harm and took refuge with the Jesuits in Satevó. They also burned the church and the friars' house. They attacked the town of San Francisco de Conchos on March 25, when they killed the Franciscan missionary friars Tomás de Zigarán and Francisco de Labado who served the mission. In 1745, Apache raiders from further north began looting and terrorizing Spanish settlements through the entire Allende Valley.

In 1740, the site at the confluence of the Río Concho and Río Parral rivers was established as a town with the name of Santa Rosalía for the Catholic missionaries who were assigned to administer in the area. The lands located between the existing town of San Francisco de Conchos and the confluence of the Río Concho and Río Florido rivers were explored by Francisco Escárcega on June 12, 1687, at the direction of the Governor of Nueva Vizcaya, Don José de Neyra y Quiroga. On the lower apex of the shield appears the city's name: SANTA ROSALÍA DE CAMARGO. Under the left river branch, agriculture is represented with a pheasant under the right river branch, livestock is represented with a cow skull.Ī sheath of maize appears along each side of the shield. The lower part displays a walnut tree planted at the confluence of two rivers, which flow downward to a cross rising from a sun in which Apache arrows appear, symbolizing the depopulation of the old settlement of the region by the attack of these indigenous groups. These figures are flanked by smoking chimneys that symbolize the industry of the city. In the center is the figure of a Spaniard on horseback below that, the historic Municipal Presidency building and the head of a Tarahumara Indian wearing a collar appear facing each other, seen in profile. It appears above a profile of the mountains along the Conchos River. In the upper part of the city's Coat of Arms, the following terms appear: TRABAJO 1792 NOBLEZA ("Work-1792-Nobility"), which represents the original motto of the city and its refounding date.