Delicias Municipality

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
Municipality.
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Municipality of Delicias in Chihuahua
Delicias
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 28°11′N 105°28′W
Country Mexico
StateChihuahua
Municipal seatDelicias
Area
 • Total335.4 km2 (129.5 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total137,935

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

Municipal presidents
  • (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
  1. "Delicias". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  2. "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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