Casas Grandes Municipality

This airticle is aboot the modren-day Mexican municipality. For the Casas Grandes municipal seat, see Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. For the eponymous pre-Columbie airchaeological zone an steid locatit athin the municipality, alternatively known as Paquimé, see Casas Grandes. For the similarly namit adjoinin municipality, see Nuevo Casas Grandes.

Casas Grandes
—  Municipio libre (municipality)  —
Municipio de Casas Grandes
Coat o airms
Location athin the state o Chihuahua
Casas Grandes location o cabecera municipal athin Mexico
Coordinates (municipal seat): 30°22′31″N 107°56′54″W
Kintra	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Settlement foondit	1661
Municipality creatit	1820
Foonder	Caiptain Andrés Gracia
Cabecera municipal (Municipal seat)	Casas Grandes
localidades (localities)	Principal localities (2005 population) Pueblo de Casas Grandes (3,433) Colonia Juárez (1,357) Juan Mata Ortiz (949) Colonia Enríquez (598) Ejido Guadalupe Victoria (414)
Govrenment
- Presidente Municipal	Dagoberto Quintana Cano (PAN)
Aurie
- Municipio libre (municipality)	3,719 km2 (1,435.9 sq mi)
- Urban	3.82 km2 (1.5 sq mi)
Hicht	1,480 m (4,856 ft)
Indwallers (2005)
- Municipio libre (municipality)	8,413
- Densitie	2.3/km2 (5.9/sq mi)
	data frae II Conteo de Población y Vivienda
Time zone	Tiempo de la Montaña (Mountain Time) (UTC-7)
códigos postales (postal codes)	31850 through to 31863
Aurie code(s)	636
INEGI state code	08
INEGI municipality code	013
Wabsteid	http://www.casasgrandes.gob.mx

Casas Grandes Municipality is locatit in the northren Mexican state o Chihuahua. The municipal seat is the toun o Casas Grandes.

The pre-Columbie airchaeological zone Casas Grandes an its central steid, efter which the municipality is namit, is locatit athin the municipality's territory. The steid o Casas Grandes, alternatively kent as Paquimé, is ane o the maist significant pre-Columbie cultural an airchaeological steids in the region o northwastren Mexico an the soothwastren Unitit States kent in some archaeological contexts as the Oasisamerica cultur aurie.

Geography

The municipality o Casas Grandes is situatit in the northwastren sector o Chihuahua state, the lairgest state o Mexico bi aurie. (Pueblo de) Casas Grandes, the municipal caipital an its maist populous localidad (locality or settlement), is approximately 359 kilometres (223 mi) tae the northwast o the state's caipital, the ceety o Chihuahua. Casas Grandes is bundit bi the municipalities o Janos tae the north, Galeana, Nuevo Casas Grandes and Madera, Chihuahua tae the east, an Ignacio Zaragoza tae the sooth. On its wastren flank Casas Grandes adjoins municipalities athin the state o Sonora.

Touns an veelages

Village	Population
Total Municipality	8,413
Casas Grandes	3,835
Colonia Juárez	1,046
Mata Ortiz	955
Sección Enríquez	522

References

INAFED (Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal) (2005). "Casas Grandes, Estado de Chihuahua". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México (online version at E-Local ed.). INAFED, Secretaría de Gobernación. http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/chihuahua/Mpios/08013a.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-11.  (Spainyie)

INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) (2006). Estado de Chihuahua: Población total, edad mediana y relación hombres-mujeres por municipio según sexo. (PDF). II Conteo de Población y Vivienda 2005. Resultados definitivos. Tabulados básicos. INEGI. (Spainyie)