Doctor Mora is a Mexican city (and

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 ...

) located in Northeast region of the state of

Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...

. The municipality has an area of 233.91 square kilometres (0.77% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by

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, to the east by Tierra Blanca, to the south by

San José Iturbide San José Iturbide is a Mexican city (and municipality) located in the Northeast region of the state of Guanajuato, within the Sierra Gorda range. It is named in honor of Saint Joseph and the first Emperor of Mexico, Agustín de Iturbide. The munic ...

, and to the west by

San Luis de la Paz San Luis de la Paz, and its surrounding municipality of the same name, is a city located in the northeastern part of the state of Guanajuato in Mexico. San Luis de la Paz was founded on August 25, 1552, as a defensive town on the Spanish Silver R ...

. The municipality has a population of 24,976 according to the 2015 census. Doctor Mora is named after

José María Luis Mora José María Luis Mora Lamadrid (12 October 1794, Chamacuero, Guanajuato – 14 July 1850, Paris, France) was a priest, lawyer, historian, politician and liberal ideologist. Considered one of the first supporters of liberalism in Mexico, he fough ...

. The municipal president of Doctor Mora and its many smaller outlying communities is Mario Arvizu.

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Municipalities of Guanajuato Populated places in Guanajuato {{Guanajuato-geo-stub