Namiquipa | |
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: | Namiquipa |
Leader Title: | Municipal President |
Leader Name: | Héctor Ariel Meixueiro Muñoz (PRI) |
Established Title: | Municipality created |
Established Date: | 21 November 1844 |
Area Total Km2: | 4212.58 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 22,880 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 29.2503°N -107.4092°W |
Elevation M: | 1888 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Blank1 Name: | Demonym |
Blank1 Info: | 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]