Casas Grandes Municipality

Casas Grandes
Municipio libre (municipality)
Municipio de Casas Grandes
Coat of arms
location within the state of Chihuahua
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Settlement founded	1661
Municipality created	1820
Founded by	Captain Andrés Gracia
Cabecera municipal (Municipal seat)	[Pueblo de] 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)
Government election held July 1, 2007
• Type	H. Ayuntamiento Municipal (municipal government)
• Presidente Municipal	Dagoberto Quintana Cano (PAN)
Area
• Municipio libre (municipality)	3,719 km2 (1,436 sq mi)
• Urban	3.82 km2 (1.47 sq mi)
Elevation	1,480 m (4,860 ft)
Population  (2005)
• Municipio libre (municipality)	8,413
• Density	2.3/km2 (5.9/sq mi)
	data from II Conteo de Población y Vivienda
Time zone	UTC-7 (Tiempo de la Montaña (Mountain Time))
códigos postales (postal codes)	31850 through to 31863
Area code	636
INEGI state code	08
INEGI municipality code	013
Website	http://www.casasgrandes.gob.mx

This article is about the modern-day Mexican municipality. For the eponymous pre-Columbian archaeological zone and site located within the municipality, alternatively known as Paquimé, see Casas Grandes. For the similarly named adjoining municipality, see Nuevo Casas Grandes.

Casas Grandes is a municipio (municipality) in the state of Chihuahua, northern Mexico, and also the name of its largest settlement and cabecera municipal (municipal seat). The municipality covers a total area of some 3,719 square kilometres (1,436 sq mi), representing approximately 1.51% of Chihuahua state's total area. As of 2005 census count data recorded by INEGI (in the II Conteo de Población y Vivienda), the municipality had 8,413 inhabitants.

The pre-Columbian archaeological zone Casas Grandes and its central site, after which the municipality is named, is located within the municipality's territory. The site of Casas Grandes, alternatively known as Paquimé, is one of the most significant pre-Columbian cultural and archaeological sites in the region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States known in some archaeological contexts as the Oasisamerica culture area.

Geography

The municipality of Casas Grandes is is situated in the northwestern sector of Chihuahua state, the largest state of Mexico by area. (Pueblo de) Casas Grandes, the municipal capital and its most populous localidad (locality or settlement), is approximately 359 kilometres (223 mi) to the northwest of the state's capital, the city of Chihuahua. Casas Grandes is bounded by the municipalities of Janos to the north, Galeana, Nuevo Casas Grandes and Madera, Chihuahua to the east, and Ignacio Zaragoza to the south. On its western flank Casas Grandes adjoins municipalities within the state of Sonora.

Towns and villages

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. Retrieved 2008-08-11. Template:Es icon

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. {{cite web}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Template:Es icon