Lerdo is one of the 39 municipalities of Durango, in north-western

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. The municipal seat lies at

Ciudad Lerdo Ciudad Lerdo (Lerdo City) is a small city in the northeastern portion of the Mexican state of Durango. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is located at co-ordinates 25.33° N, 103.31° W, borde ...

. The municipality covers an area of 1868.8 km². As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 141,043, up from 129,191 as of 2005. As of 2010, the city of Lerdo had a population of 79,669. Other than the city of Lerdo, the municipality had 485 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Nazareno (7,515), Ciudad Juárez (7,069), La Loma (4,045), León Guzmán (3,335), Carlos Real (San Carlos) (3,021), El Huarache (El Guarache) (2,709), Villa de Guadalupe (2,376), classified as urban, and Juan E. García (2,457), Sapioris (1,866), San Jacinto (1,661), Los Ángeles (1,616), La Goma (1,522), Ejido 21 de Marzo (1,408), Seis de Enero (1,372), Álvaro Obregón (1,359), La Luz (1,285), Picardías (1,194), Las Cuevas (1,125), and El Rayo (1,030), classified as rural.

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Municipalities of Durango {{Durango-geo-stub