A locality of Mexico is a distinct settlement. The definition is:
A locality (localidad), may be a city, Villa (población), Pueblo (población rural),
ranchería
The Spanish word ranchería, or rancherío, refers to a small, rural settlement. In the Americas the term was applied to native villages or bunkhouses. Anglo-Americans adopted the term with both these meanings, usually to designate the resident ...
, congregación (población) or
ejido
An ''ejido'' (, from Latin ''exitum'') is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights rather than ownership rights to land, which in Mexico is held by the Mexican state. People awarded ejidos in ...
.
All cities are a single locality. Note that in Mexico's case, 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 ...
is not a city, a city is most often ''inside'' a municipality.
According to ''Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía'' (
INEGI
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 ...
) it is:
All places with one or more dwellings, who may be inhabited or not, and can be classed as urban or rural.
See also
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Settlement classification in Mexico Mexico's states classify their settlements in a variety of fashions:
Aguascalientes
Under Article 106 of the Municipal Law of the State of Aguascalientethe state defines its settlements as follows:
*''Ciudad'' (city): Census population in excess ...
Refs
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Subdivisions of Mexico
Populated places in Mexico