| Casas Grandes | |
| Official Name: | Municipio de Casas Grandes |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | location of cabecera municipal within Mexico |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Chihuahua |
| Seat Type: | Cabecera municipal (Municipal seat) |
| Seat: | Casas Grandes |
| Parts Type: | localidades (localities) |
| Parts: | Principal localities (2005 population) |
| P1: | Pueblo de Casas Grandes (3,433) |
| P2: | Colonia Juárez (1,357) |
| P3: | Juan Mata Ortiz (949) |
| P4: | Colonia Enríquez (598) |
| P5: | Ejido Guadalupe Victoria (414) |
| Government Footnotes: | election held July 1, 2007 |
| Government Type: | H. Ayuntamiento Municipal (municipal government) |
| Leader Party: | PAN |
| Leader Title: | Presidente Municipal |
| Leader Name: | Dagoberto Quintana Cano |
| Established Title: | Settlement founded |
| Established Date: | 1661 |
| Established Title1: | Municipality created |
| Established Date1: | 1820 |
| Founder: | Captain Andrés Gracia |
| Area Total Km2: | 3719 |
| Area Urban Km2: | 3.82 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
| Elevation M: | 1480 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Total: | 10,587 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | Tiempo de la Montaña (Mountain Time) |
| Utc Offset: | -7 |
| Timezone Dst: | Tiempo de la Montaña |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
| Coor Pinpoint: | municipal seat |
| Coordinates: | 30.3753°N -107.9483°W |
| Postal Code Type: | códigos postales (postal codes) |
| Postal Code: | 31850 through to 31863 |
| Area Code: | 636 |
| Blank Name: | INEGI state code |
| Blank Info: | 08 |
| Blank1 Name: | INEGI municipality code |
| Blank1 Info: | 013 |
Casas Grandes Municipality is located in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. The municipal seat is the town of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua.
The pre-Columbian archaeological zone Casas Grandes and its central site, after which the municipality is named, is located within the municipality's territory. The site of Casas Grandes, alternatively known as Paquimé, is one of the most significant pre-Columbian cultural and archaeological sites in the region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States known in some archaeological contexts as the Oasisamerica culture area.
The municipality of Casas Grandes is situated in the northwestern sector of Chihuahua state, the largest state of Mexico by area. (Pueblo de) Casas Grandes, the municipal capital and its most populous localidad (locality or settlement), is approximately 359km (223miles) to the northwest of the state's capital, the city of Chihuahua. Casas Grandes is bounded by the municipalities of Janos to the north, Galeana, Nuevo Casas Grandes and Madera, Chihuahua to the east, and Ignacio Zaragoza to the south. On its western flank Casas Grandes adjoins municipalities within the state of Sonora.[2]
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 10,587,[3] up from 8,413 as of 2005.
As of 2010, the town of Casas Grandes had a population of 5,256.[3] Other than the town of Casas Grandes, the municipality had 296 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Juan Mata Ortíz (Pearson) (1,182) and Colonia Juárez (1,035), classified as rural.[3]