Guadalupe Victoria Municipality is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the
Mexican state
State most commonly refers to:
* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
of
Durango
Durango, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Durango, is one of the 31 states which make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in the northwest portion of the country. With a population of 1,832,650 ...
. The municipal seat lies at
Ciudad Guadalupe Victoria. The municipality covers an area of 767.10 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 36,695.
As of 2010, the city of Guadalupe Victoria had a population of 16,506.
[ Other than the city of Guadalupe Victoria, the municipality had 92 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Antonio Amaro (Saucillo) (3,526), ]Ignacio Allende
Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga (, , ; January 21, 1769 – June 26, 1811), commonly known as Ignacio Allende, was a captain of the Spanish Army in New Spain who came to sympathize with the Mexican independence movement. He attended the secre ...
(2,588), Ignacio Ramírez (2,432), classified as urban, and General Calixto Contreras (Colorada) (2,213), Felipe Carrillo Puerto (Tarabillas) (2,019), and José Guadalupe Rodríguez (Peñuelas) (1,374), classified as rural.[
]
References
Municipalities of Durango
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