Anáhuac, Chihuahua is located in an agricultural Valley, approximately 20 km. away from Cuauhtémoc City. The area boasts numerous Mennonite agricultural farmlands. Its main communication route is a state highway that joins it to the West with Cuauhtémoc and to the East with Santa Isabel. In both towns the highway joins Federal Highway 16 and it serves as a free alternate route to the federal toll highway. Anahuac is also communicated by the Chihuahua-Pacific Railway, which departs from Chihuahua City to the East and reaches the Sea of Cortes at Topolobampo, Sinaloa on the Western extreme of the route.

According to the 2010 Population and Housing Census, Anáhuac has a total population of 9,952 inhabitants of which 4,937 are men and 5,015 are women. It is the seventeenth most populated community in the state of Chihuahua.

Historically, post-Revolutionary land reform lead to the division of the Hacienda de Bustillos into parcels, which were granted to local peasants in 1931 for collective landholding through the Ejido system. In 1953 the economic activity diversified when the paper mill Celulosa de Chihuahua built industrial facilities and housing areas for its workers. The main reason for its installation was the abundance of water in the region. However, with over-exploitation, this resource was practically depleted and, toward the end of the twentieth Century, the area began to suffer periodic droughts. In 1993, several of the communities were flooded by the overflowing of Bustillos Lake.

With the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement, cheap US agricultural products flooded into México, making it impossible for farmers to sell their harvests. This resulted in extreme hardship as people found themselves unable to provide for the basic needs of their families.