Calvillo () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...

Aguascalientes Aguascalientes (; ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. At 22°N and ...

. The city of

Calvillo Calvillo () is a city in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. The town serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Calvillo. Calvillo is the second most populated city in the state, surpassed in importance only by the capital ...

, the second largest in the state, serves as the municipal seat. It is located to the western part of the state, at about 52 kilometers of the city of Aguascalientes. It stands at in the southwestern corner of the state. It is bounded by

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and

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. The municipality, which has an area of 931.26 km² (359.56 sq mi), reported a population of 54,136 by 2010. The town of

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is another significant community in the municipality. Calvillo is one of the richest, most prosperous municipalities in Aguascalientes. During the French invasion of Mexico, the north part of the valley of Huajuacar in which Calvillo lays, was occupied by the French. At the time, they intermixed with the descendants of Spaniards which already inhabited the south part of the valley. This fact made Calvillo the municipality with most Caucasian-origin inhabitants in the state, compared with the other municipalities. Calvillo is the largest guava producer in Mexico and famous for its superb confectionery and liqueurs made from this fruit, which you can sample at the Guava Fair held during the first week of December. The economy in Calvillo is centered on the guava, although there is other agriculture and a great deal of commerce. Calvillo is better known as the world capital of the guava.

Demographics

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 54,136, As of 2010, the city of Calvillo had a population of 19,742. Other than the city of Calvillo, the municipality had 307 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:

(6,914), classified as urban, and El Cuervero (Cuerveros) (2,350), Valle Huejúcar (Fraccionamiento Popular) (1,991),

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(1,988), Malpaso (1,697), San Tadeo (1,507), Chiquihuitero (San Isidro) (1,318), La Panadera (1,212),

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(1,149), Jaltiche de Arriba (1,114), and Crucero las Pilas (1,031), classified as rural.

References

Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005

Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI by its name in es, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Stat ...

(INEGI)
Aguascalientes
Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
Spanish version of the history of Calvillo

External links

Ayuntamiento de Calvillo
Official website *http://calvillo.blogspot.com *https://web.archive.org/web/20190121024015/https://calvillo.com.mx/ *http://calvillo.sdmexico.com
Gobierno del Estado de Aguascalientes
Official website of State of Aguascalientes *http://www.calvilloweb.com * https://web.archive.org/web/20081121201222/http://www.livevideo.com/liveshow/calvillo * http://www.myspace.com/calvisranch {{Authority control Municipalities of Aguascalientes