Guerrero is one of the 67

municipalities of Chihuahua Chihuahua is a state in Northwest Mexico that is divided into 67 municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican census, Chihuahua is the 12th most populous state with inhabitants and the largest by land area spanning . Municipalities in Chihuah ...

, in northern

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

. The municipal seat lies at

Vicente Guerrero Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (; baptized 10 August 1782 – 14 February 1831) was a Mexican military officer from 1810–1821 and a statesman who became the nation's second president in 1829. He was one of the leading generals who fought ag ...

(aka Ciudad Guerrero). The municipality covers an area of 5,603.6 km². As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 39,626, up from 37,249 as of 2005. The municipality had 822 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:

La Junta La Junta is a home rule municipality in, the county seat of, and the most populous municipality of Otero County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 7,322 at the 2020 United States census. La Junta is located on the Arkansas R ...

(8,930),

(7,751), Tomochi (2,818), classified as urban, and

Basúchil Basúchil (Bajichi), water well in the Raramuri language, Domínguez, R. C. (2006). Basúchil. Chihuahua, México: Ediciones Del Azar A. C. is a town in the municipality of Guerrero, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. It was founded in 1649 as a pres ...

(1,451), and Orozco (San Isidro Pascual Orozco) (1,263), classified as rural.

Geography

Towns and villages

The municipality has 462 localities. The largest are:

Municipal presidents

* (1989 - 1992):

Luis Moya Anchondo Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

* (1992 - 1995):

Carlos Comadurán Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhere ...

* (1995 - 1998):

Alfonso Domínguez Carreón Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. I ...

* (1998 - 2001):

Jesús Alfredo Velarde Guzmán Jesus ( AD 30 or 33) was a Jewish preacher and religious leader who most Christians believe to be the incarnation of God and Muslims believe was a prophet. Jesus may also refer to: People Religious figures * Elymas Bar-Jesus, a Jew in the ''Act ...

* (2001 - 2004):

Jorge Morales Morales Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name George. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese . It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'' ...

* (2004 - 2007):

* (2007 - 2010): José Gabriel Almeyda Ochoa

References

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