Delicias 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 Chihuahua ...

, in northern

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. The capital lies at Delicias. The municipality covers an area of 335.4 km². As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 137,935, up from 127,211 as of 2005. As of 2010, the city of Delicias had a population of 118,071. Other than the city of Delicias, the municipality had 687 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Colonia Revolución (3,995),

Miguel Hidalgo Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or Miguel Hidalgo (), was a Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican Wa ...

(2,850), classified as urban; and Colonia Campesina (2,365), Colonia Nicolás Bravo (Kilómetro Noventa y Dos) (1,772), Colonia Terrazas (1,602), and Colonia Abraham González (La Quemada) (1,404), classified as rural.

Politics

Municipal presidents

*(1974 - 1976):

Fernando Baeza Meléndez Fernando Baeza Meléndez (born January 21, 1942 in Delicias, Chihuahua) is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Baeza served as the Governor of Chihuahua from 1986 to 1992. In 1986, was elected Gover ...

*(1976 - 1977): Salvador Montelongo *(1977 - 1980): Carlos Manuel Carrasco Chacón *(1980 - 1983): Lorenzo Treviño de los Santos *(1983 - 1986): Horacio González de las Casas *(1986): Gabriel Baeza Vitolás *(1986 - 1989): Jaime Ríos Velasco *(1989 - 1990): Oscar Villalobos Chávez *(1990 - 1992): Gloria Cervantes *(1992 - 1995): Rogelio Bejarano *(1995 - 1998): Rogelio Muñoz *(1998 - 2001): Manuel Soltero Delgado *(2001 - 2004): Héctor Baeza Terrazas *(2004 - 2007):

Guillermo Márquez Lizalde Manuel Guillermo Márquez Lizalde (born 25 June 1961) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Chihuahua (state), Chihuah ...

*(2007 - 2010): Jesús Heberto Villalobos Maynez

References

Municipalities of Chihuahua (state) {{Chihuahua-geo-stub