Manuel Benavides is a small
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and seat of the
municipality of Manuel Benavides, in the northern
Mexican state
The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...
of
Chihuahua Chihuahua may refer to:
Places
*Chihuahua (state), a Mexican state
**Chihuahua (dog), a breed of dog named after the state
**Chihuahua cheese, a type of cheese originating in the state
**Chihuahua City, the capital city of the state
**Chihuahua Mun ...
. As of 2010, the town had a population of 916,
up from 200 as of 2005.
[ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. ''Principales resultados por localidad 2005'' (ITER). Retrieved on October 19, 2008] It is a rural bordertown on the
U.S.-Mexico border, with the town of
Redford,
Texas
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, directly opposite, on the
U.S.
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side of the border.
References
Populated places in Chihuahua (state)
Chihuahua (state) populated places on the Rio Grande
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