Gómez Palacio Municipality

{{Short description|Municipality in the Mexican state of Durango}}

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Gómez Palacio is a municipality in the Mexican state of Durango. The municipal seat lies at Gómez Palacio. The municipality covers an area of 990.2 km².

In 2010, the municipality had a total population of 327,985,{{cite web|title=Gómez Palacio|url=http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=10&mun=007|work=Catálogo de Localidades|publisher=Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL)|access-date=23 April 2014|archive-date=14 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414001344/http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=10&mun=007|url-status=dead}} up from 304,515 in 2005.{{cite web|title=Gómez Palacio|url=http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/durango/mpios/10007a.htm|work=Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México|publisher=Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal|access-date=November 18, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070512174200/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/durango/mpios/10007a.htm|archive-date=May 12, 2007}}

In 2010, the city of Gómez Palacio had a population of 257,352. Other than the city of Gómez Palacio, the municipality had 583 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: San Felipe (4,552), La Popular (3,406), Pastor Rouaix (2,696), classified as urban, and San Ramón (2,624), Transporte (2,624), El Vergel (2,257), Esmeralda (2,249), San José de Viñedo (1,984), Venecia (1,861), Arcinas (1,629), La Flor (1,593), Santa Cruz Luján (1,585), Jiménez (Jiménez Uno) (1,568), Seis de Octubre (1,528), Huitrón (1,511), Villa Gregorio García (1,446), Arturo Martínez Adame (1,251), Eureka de Media Luna (Eureka) (1,201), Puente de la Torreña (1,177), and California (1,032), classified as rural.