Namiquipa Municipality

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

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|established_date = 21 November 1844

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Namiquipa is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Namiquipa.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 22,880,{{cite web|title=Namiquipa|url=http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=08&mun=048|work=Catálogo de Localidades|publisher=Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL)|accessdate=23 April 2014}} up from 20,314 as of 2005.{{cite web|title=Namiquipa|url=http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/chihuahua/Mpios/08048a.htm|work=Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México|publisher=Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal|accessdate=October 13, 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529050147/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/chihuahua/Mpios/08048a.htm|archivedate=May 29, 2007}}

As of 2010, the town of Namiquipa had a population of 1,752, up from 1,718 as of 2005.{{cite web|title=Namiquipa|url=http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/chihuahua/Mpios/08048a.htm|work=Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México|publisher=Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal|accessdate=October 13, 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529050147/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/chihuahua/Mpios/08048a.htm|archivedate=May 29, 2007}} Other than the town of Namiquipa, the municipality had 363 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Santa Ana (2,978), classified as urban, and El Terrero (2,621), El Molino (2,176), Benito Juárez (1,967), classified as urban, and Cruces (1,206), and Independencia (Cologachi) (1,088), classified as rural.