Delicias is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The capital lies at Delicias. The municipality covers an area of 335.4 km2.
Delicias | |
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 Coat of arms | |
 Municipality of Delicias in Chihuahua | |
  Delicias Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 28°11′N 105°28′W / 28.183°N 105.467°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Chihuahua |
| Municipal seat | Delicias |
| Area | |
| • Total | 335.4 km2 (129.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 137,935 |
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 137,935,[1] up from 127,211 as of 2005.[2]
As of 2010, the city of Delicias had a population of 118,071.[1] Other than the city of Delicias, the municipality had 687 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Colonia Revolución (3,995), Miguel Hidalgo (2,850), classified as urban; and Colonia Campesina (2,365), Colonia Nicolás Bravo (Kilómetro Noventa y Dos) (1,772), Colonia Terrazas (1,602), and Colonia Abraham González (La Quemada) (1,404), classified as rural.[1]
Politics
editMunicipal presidents
edit- (1974 - 1976): Fernando Baeza Meléndez
- (1976 - 1977): Salvador Montelongo
- (1977 - 1980): Carlos Manuel Carrasco Chacón
- (1980 - 1983): Lorenzo Treviño de los Santos
- (1983 - 1986): Horacio González de las Casas
- (1986): Gabriel Baeza Vitolás
- (1986 - 1989): Jaime Ríos Velasco
- (1989 - 1990): Oscar Villalobos Chávez
- (1990 - 1992): Gloria Cervantes
- (1992 - 1995): Rogelio Bejarano
- (1995 - 1998): Rogelio Muñoz
- (1998 - 2001): Manuel Soltero Delgado
- (2001 - 2004): Héctor Baeza Terrazas
- (2004 - 2007): Guillermo Márquez Lizalde
- (2007 - 2010): Jesús Heberto Villalobos Maynez
References
edit- ^ a b c "Delicias". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ "Delicias". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. Archived from the original on February 23, 2007. Retrieved August 22, 2008.
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