Gómez Farías | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
Pushpin Label Position: | above |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mexico |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Chihuahua |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipal seat |
Subdivision Name2: | Valentín Gómez Farías |
Area Total Km2: | 986.6 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 8,624 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 29.35°N -151°W |
Gómez Farías is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Valentín Gómez Farías, Chihuahua. The municipality covers an area of 986.6 km2.
It was named for Valentín Gómez Farías, a 19th-century President of the Republic.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 8,624,[1] up from 7,583 as of 2005.[2]
The municipality had 42 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Valentín Gómez Farías (5,330), classified as urban, and Peña Blanca (1,092), classified as rural.[1]