Casas Grandes Municipality is located in the northern
Mexican state of
Chihuahua. The
municipal seat
A municipal seat or ''cabecera municipal'' is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a municipality or civil parish with other villes or towns subordinated. The term is used in Brazil, Colombia,pre-Columbian
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, ...
archaeological zone
Casas Grandes
Casas Grandes (Spanish for ''Great Houses''; also known as Paquimé) is a prehistoric archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Construction of the site is attributed to the Mogollon culture. Casas Grandes has been designat ...
and its central site, after which the municipality is named, is located within the municipality's territory. The site of Casas Grandes, alternatively known as Paquimé, is one of the most significant pre-Columbian cultural and archaeological sites in the region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States known in some archaeological contexts as the
Oasisamerica
Oasisamerica is a term that was coined by Paul Kirchhoff (who also coined "Mesoamerica") and published in a 1954 article, and is used by some scholars, primarily Mexican anthropologists, for the broad cultural area defining pre-Columbian sout ...
culture area.
Geography
The municipality of Casas Grandes is situated in the northwestern sector of Chihuahua state, the largest
state of Mexico by area.
(Pueblo de) Casas Grandes, the municipal capital and its most populous ''localidad'' (locality or settlement), is approximately to the northwest of the state's capital, the city of
Chihuahua. Casas Grandes is bounded by the municipalities of
Janos to the north,
Galeana,
Nuevo Casas Grandes
Nuevo Casas Grandes is a city and the seat of the Nuevo Casas Grandes Municipality in northern Mexico. It is located in the northwestern part of the state of Chihuahua, on the Casas Grandes or San Miguel river, situated in a wide, fertile valley o ...
and
Madera, Chihuahua to the east, and
Ignacio Zaragoza
Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín (; March 24, 1829September 8, 1862) was a Mexican general and politician. He led the Mexican army of 600 men that defeated 6,500 invading French forces, including the elite French legionnaires at the Battle of Puebla ...
to the south. On its western flank Casas Grandes adjoins municipalities within the state of
Sonora.
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Demographics
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 10,587,
up from 8,413 as of 2005.
As of 2010, the town of Casas Grandes had a population of 5,256.
[ Other than the town of Casas Grandes, the municipality had 296 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Juan Mata Ortíz (Pearson) (1,182) and Colonia Juárez (1,035), classified as rural.][
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Municipalities of Chihuahua (state)
1820 establishments in the Spanish Empire