| San Francisco del Mezquital | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipal seat and city |
| 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: | Durango |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mezquital |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Total: | 1742 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 23.4733°N -104.3958°W |
Mezquital (Boodamtam) is a city and seat of the Municipality of Mezquital in the state of Durango north-western Mexico.[1] It is situated on the San Pedro Mezquital River in the northeast of the municipality, near the boundary with the Municipality of Suchil. As of 2010, the town had a population of 1,742.[2]
There is uncertainty as to the official name of this municipal capital. According to an online encyclopedia of Mexico's municipalities produced by the federal Secretariat of Governance, the name of this city is simply Mezquital, [3] but the federal postal service gives San Francisco del Mezquital,[4] which is the name of the second convent founded in the vicinity during the colonial era.