Departments of the Second Mexican Empire
The Departments of the Second Mexican Empire were the administrative divisions that the nation was organized into during the short rule of Emperor Maximilian. He commissioned Mexican scholar Manuel Orozco y Berra to redraw boundaries based on geography. Each department was to be governed by a prefect, though the entire nation was never able to be administered by the imperial government due to an ongoing war against supporters of the Mexican Republic.
List of Departments
Number | Department | Total population | Capital | Prefect[1] | Population | Surface (Sq Leagues) | Pop. Density |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
XXL | Acapulco | 97,949 | Acapulco | 3,000 | 1,965 | 49.85 | |
XXX | Aguascalientes | 433,151 | Aguascalientes | Francisco R. de Esparza | 23,000 | 1,768 | 244.99 |
XLIV | Álamos | 41,041 | Álamos | 6,000 | 2,657 | 15.45 | |
XLVI | Arizona | 25,603 | Altar | José Moreno Bustamante | 1,000 | 4,852 | 5.28 |
XXVII | Autlán | 82,624 | Autlán | 3,000 | 1,394 | 59.27 | |
XLVIII | Batopilas | 71,481 | Hidalgo | 3,000 | 2,967 | 24.09 | |
L | California | 12,420 | La Paz | 500 | 8,437 | 1.47 | |
II | Campeche | 126,368 | Campeche | Manuel Ramos | 15,500 | 2,975 | 42.48 |
V | Chiapas | 157,317 | San Cristóbal de las Casas | 10,500 | 1,871 | 84.08 | |
XLIX | Chihuahua | 65,824 | Chihuahua | Luis Terrazas | 12,000 | 5,341 | 12.32 |
XXXVIII | Coahuila | 63,178 | Saltillo | Francisco de la Peña y Fuentes | 9,000 | 3,996 | 15.81 |
XXIV | Coalcomán | 96,450 | Coalcomán | Antonio Pallares | 3,000 | 993 | 97.13 |
XXV | Colima | 136,733 | Colima | Jose Maria Mendoza | 31,000 | 1,131 | 120.90 |
XLII | Durango | 103,608 | Durango | Buenaventura G. Saravia | 14,000 | 3,394 | 30.53 |
VIII | Ejutla | 93,675 | Ejutla | 7,128 | 1,157 | 80.96 | |
XXXII | Fresnillo | 82,860 | Fresnillo | Mariano Rodriguez | 12,000 | 2,299 | 36.04 |
XXIX | Guanajuato | 601,850 | Guanajuato | 63,000 | 1,452 | 414.50 | |
XX | Guerrero | 124,836 | Chilpancingo | 3,000 | 1,668 | 74.84 | |
XLVII | Huejuquilla | 16,092 | Jiménez | 3,000 | 4,479 | 3.59 | |
XVIII | Iturbide | 157,619 | Taxco | Francisco Casanova | 5,000 | 833 | 189.22 |
XXVI | Jalisco | 219,987 | Guadalajara | Mariano Morett | 70,000 | 1,252 | 175.71 |
III | La Laguna | 47,000 | El Carmen | Manuel Maria Sandoval | 5,000 | 1,685 | 27.89 |
XXXIX | Mapimí | 6,777 | San Fernando de Rosas | 1,000 | 4,528 | 1.50 | |
XXXVI | Matamoros | 41,000 | Matamoros | Pedro J. de la Garza | 41,000 | 2,195 | 18.68 |
XXXIV | Matehuala | 82,427 | Matehuala | 3,500 | 2,097 | 39.31 | |
XL | Mazatlán | 94,387 | Mazatlán | Gregorio Almeda | 15,000 | 2,116 | 44.61 |
XXII | Michoacán | 417,378 | Morelia | Ramon Mendez | 25,000 | 1,750 | 238.5 |
XXVIII | Nayarit | 78,605 | Acaponeta | Manuel Rivas | 2,000 | 1,718 | 45.75 |
XLIII | Nazas | 46,495 | Indeé | 5,000 | 3,089 | 15.05 | |
XXXVII | Nuevo León | 152,645 | Monterrey | Jose Maria Garcia | 14,000 | 2,379 | 64.16 |
VII | Oaxaca | 235,845 | Oaxaca | Juan P Franco | 25,000 | 1,839 | 128.25 |
XXXIII | El Potosí | 308,116 | San Luis Potosí | 34,000 | 2,166 | 142.25 | |
XII | Puebla | 467,788 | Puebla | Alonso Manuel Peon | 75,000 | 1,141 | 409.98 |
XIX | Querétaro | 273,515 | Querétaro | Manuel Gutierrez | 48,000 | 946 | 289.13 |
XLI | Sinaloa | 82,185 | Culiacán | 9,000 | 2,576 | 31.90 | |
XLV | Sonora | 80,129 | Ures | Santiago Campillo | 7,000 | 4,198 | 19.09 |
IV | Tabasco | 99,930 | San Juan Bautista | 6,000 | 1,905 | 52.46 | |
XXXV | Tamaulipas | 71,470 | Ciudad Victoria | José de Emparan | 6,000 | 1,969 | 36.30 |
XXIII | Tancítaro | 179,100 | Tancítaro | 2,000 | 1,194 | 150.00 | |
VI | Tehuantepec | 85,275 | El Suchil | Luciano Prieto | - | 1,999 | 42.66 |
IX | Teposcolula | 160,720 | Teposcolula | 1,200 | 1,352 | 118.88 | |
XIII | Tlaxcala | 339,571 | Tlaxcala | Bibiano Beltran | 4,000 | 1,030 | 329.68 |
XVII | Toluca | 311,853 | Toluca | Gonzalez Fuentes | 12,000 | 1,095 | 284.80 |
XVI | Tula | 178,174 | Tula | Eligio Ruelas | 5,000 | 617 | 288.77 |
XV | Tulancingo | 266,678 | Tulancingo | Agustin Ricoy | 6,000 | 1,030 | 258.91 |
XI | Tuxpan | 97,940 | Tuxpan | 6,000 | 1,325 | 73.92 | |
XIV | Valle de México | 481,796 | Mexico | Jose Maria Mendoza | 200,000 | 410 | 1,175.11 |
X | Veracruz | 265,159 | Veracruz | Domingo Bureau | 10,000 | 2,119 | 125.13 |
I | Yucatán | 263,547 | Mérida | José García Jurado | 24,000 | 4,902 | 53.76 |
XXXI | Zacatecas | 192,823 | Zacatecas | Jose María Avila | 16,000 | 1,785 | 108.02 |
The information from this table was the estimate for the year 1865.[2]
See also
References
- Almanaque Imperial para el año de 1866 (PDF). J.M. Lara. 1866. pp. 57–68.
- La división territorial del Segundo Imperio Mexicano, 1865. Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México, UNAM
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