Nuevo Casas Grandes is a Mexican

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 the state of

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, northwestern Mexico. The capital and seat of the

is the city of

Nuevo Casas Grandes Nuevo Casas Grandes is a city and the seat of the Nuevo Casas Grandes Municipality in northern Mexico. It is located in the northwestern part of the state of Chihuahua, on the Casas Grandes or San Miguel river, situated in a wide, fertile valley o ...

, which has the same name as the surrounding municipality. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 59,337. As of 2010, the city of Nuevo Casas Grandes had a population of 55,553. Other than the city of Nuevo Casas Grandes, the municipality had 158 localities, none of which had a population over 1,000. It has only one airport and is seven hours behind the Greenwich Meridian. As of March 2, 2021, Nuevo Casas Grandes reported 696 confirmed cases and 72 deaths from the

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. Yuriel Armando González Lara (), candidate for municipal president, was assassinated on March 4, 2021.

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