Nazas Municipality

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

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Nazas is a municipality in the Mexican state of Durango. The municipal seat lies at Nazas. The municipality covers an area of 2,412.8 km².

In 2020, the municipality had a total population of 12,894,{{cite web |title=Nazas: Economy, employment, equity, quality of life, education, health and public safety |url=https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/geo/nazas |website=Secretaría de Economía |access-date=8 April 2024}} up from 12,411 in 2010{{cite web|title=Nazas|url=http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=10&mun=015|work=Catálogo de Localidades|publisher=Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL)|accessdate=23 April 2014}} and 12,166 in 2005.{{cite web|title=Nazas|url=http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/durango/mpios/10015a.htm|work=Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México|publisher=Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal|accessdate=December 15, 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309131832/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/durango/mpios/10015a.htm|archivedate=March 9, 2007}}

As of 2010, the town of Nazas had a population of 3,622. Other than the town of Nazas, the municipality had 78 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: General Lázaro Cárdenas (Pueblo Nuevo) (1,927) and Paso Nacional (1,366), classified as rural.

The greatest extent of the solar eclipse of 8 April 2024 was in the village of Guadalupe Hidalgo in the municipality of Nazas, with a totality of about 4 minutes and 28 seconds.{{cite web |title=Total Solar Eclipse: 8 April 2024 |url=https://www.thesuntoday.org/eclipses/solar/total/2024-04-08/ |website=The Sun Today |access-date=8 April 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Rivera |first1=Ramón |title=Así se vivió el eclipse solar total en Nazas, epicentro en Durango |url=https://www.milenio.com/content/eclipse-solar-mexico-vivio-nazas-durango |access-date=19 April 2024 |work=Milenio |date=8 April 2024}}