Mezquital ( stp, Boodamtam) is a city and seat of the Municipality of
Mezquital in the state of
Durango north-western
Mexico
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. It is situated on the
San Pedro Mezquital River in the northeast of the municipality, near the boundary with the
Municipality of Suchil. As of 2010, the town had a population of 1,742.
There is uncertainty as to the official name of this municipal capital. According to an online encyclopedia of Mexico's municipalities produced by the federal Secretariat of Governance, the name of this city is simply Mezquital, but the federal postal service gives San Francisco del Mezquital,
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for postal codes of the Mexican postal service, Correos de México. which is the name of the second convent founded in the vicinity during the colonial era.
References
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Populated places in Durango