Namiquipa Municipality

Namiquipa
Municipality
Municipality of Namiquipa in Chihuahua
Namiquipa Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 29°15′01″N 107°24′33″W
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Municipal seat	Namiquipa
Municipality created	21 November 1844
Government
• Municipal President	Héctor Ariel Meixueiro Muñoz (PRI)
Area
• Total	4,212.58 km^2 (1,626.49 sq mi)
Elevation	1,888 m (6,194 ft)
Population  (2010)
• Total	22,880
• Density	5.4/km^2 (14/sq mi)
Demonym	Namiquipense
Website	www.namiquipa.gob.mx

Namiquipa is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Namiquipa.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 22,880,[1] up from 20,314 as of 2005.[2]

As of 2010, the town of Namiquipa had a population of 1,752,[1] up from 1,718 as of 2005.[3] Other than the town of Namiquipa, the municipality had 363 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Santa Ana (2,978), classified as urban, and El Terrero (2,621), El Molino (2,176), Benito Juárez (1,967), classified as urban, and Cruces (1,206), and Independencia (Cologachi) (1,088), classified as rural.[1]

References

1. "Namiquipa". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
2. "Namiquipa". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on May 29, 2007. Retrieved October 13, 2008.
3. "Namiquipa". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on May 29, 2007. Retrieved October 13, 2008.