Mezquital Municipality
{{Short description|Municipality in the Mexican state of Durango}}
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Mezquital is a municipality in the Mexican state of Durango. The municipal seat lies at San Francisco del Mezquital. The municipality covers an area of 7,196.5 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 33,396,{{cite web|title=Mezquital|url=http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=10&mun=014|work=Catálogo de Localidades|publisher=Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL)|accessdate=23 April 2014}} up from 30,069 as of 2005.{{cite web|title=Mezquital|url=http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/durango/mpios/10014a.htm|work=Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México|publisher=Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal|accessdate=November 12, 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527203752/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/durango/mpios/10014a.htm|archivedate=May 27, 2007}}
The municipality had 1,325 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 population in parentheses) was: San Francisco del Mezquital (1,742), classified as urban.