| Namiquipa, Chihuahua | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipal Seat |
| 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: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Namiquipa |
| Leader Title: | Municipal President |
| Leader Name: | Héctor Ariel Meixueiro Muñoz (PRI) |
| Established Title: | Franciscan Mission |
| Established Date: | 1763 |
| Established Title2: | Town status |
| Established Date2: | 1778 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Total: | 1,752 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 29.2503°N -107.4092°W |
| Elevation M: | 1888 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 31960 |
| Area Code: | 659 |
| Blank1 Name: | Demonym |
| Blank1 Info: | Namiquipense |
Namiquipa is a town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Namiquipa.
As of 2010, the town of Namiquipa had a population of 1,752,[1] up from 1,718 as of 2005.[2]
The origin of the settlement is an indigenous village called Namiquipa.
Franciscan missionaries established a mission in 1662 or 1663 called San Pedro de Alcántara de Namiquipa.[3] It was subsequently abandoned.[4]
Namiquipa was refounded and given town (villa) status in 1778. The Spanish colonial state established the town and surrounding region as a military colony, and its settlers received land grants in return for fighting Apache during the Apache Wars.
Namiquipa was a stronghold of Pancho Villa’s popular movement during much of the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920. However, in 1916 locals switched sides and formed local militia that collaborated with the United States.[5] In 1917 Namiquipa was attacked by Villa and his men, who reportedly raped many townswomen after setting the town ablaze.[6] Villa's commander Nicolas Fernandez managed to take some of the townswomen under his protection, and ordered his soldiers to shoot any one who tried to attack them.[7] After news of the atrocity spread, Villa lost the goodwill of many villagers across Chihuahua.