| Tamazula de Victoria | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipal seat and city |
| Pushpin Map: | Mexico Durango#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: | Tamazula |
| Leader Title: | Municipal President |
| Leader Name: | Ricardo Ochoa Beltran |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Total: | 2,337 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Coordinates: | 24.97°N -106.9656°W |
| Elevation M: | 245 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postalcode |
| Postal Code: | 34580 |
| Website: | http://www.tamazuladgo.gob.mx/index.html |
Tamazula de Victoria is a small town and seat of the municipality of Tamazula in the Mexican state of Durango. The town is located approximately 53miles east of the city center of Culiacán, Sinaloa, in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains. The Tamazula River crescents directly north of the city.
Colloquially known as Tamazula, its official name is Tamazula de Victoria after the first president of Mexico's adopted last name was added. General Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of Mexico, and his brother Francisco Victoria were born in Tamazula. As of 2010, the town had a population of 2,337[1]
In the seventeenth century, Jesuit missionaries founded Mission San Ignacio de Tamazula.[2]
The municipal subdivisions of Tamazula are: