El Oro () is a
municipality
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in the
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state
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of
Durango
Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...
. The municipal seat lies at
Santa María del Oro. The municipality covers an area of 10,041 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 11,320,
up from 10,501 as of 2005.
The municipality had 113 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 population in parentheses) was:
Santa María del Oro (5,878), classified as urban.
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References
Municipalities of Durango
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