Delicias Municipality

Delicias is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The capital lies at Delicias. The municipality covers an area of 335.4 km².

Delicias
Municipality
Coat of arms
Municipality of Delicias in Chihuahua
Delicias Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 28°11′N 105°28′W
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Municipal seat	Delicias
Area
• Total	335.4 km2 (129.5 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	137,935

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 137,935,^[1] up from 127,211 as of 2005.^[2]

As of 2010, the city of Delicias had a population of 118,071.^[1] Other than the city of Delicias, the municipality had 687 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Colonia Revolución (3,995), Miguel Hidalgo (2,850), classified as urban; and Colonia Campesina (2,365), Colonia Nicolás Bravo (Kilómetro Noventa y Dos) (1,772), Colonia Terrazas (1,602), and Colonia Abraham González (La Quemada) (1,404), classified as rural.^[1]

Politics

Municipal presidents

• (1974 - 1976): Fernando Baeza Meléndez
• (1976 - 1977): Salvador Montelongo
• (1977 - 1980): Carlos Manuel Carrasco Chacón
• (1980 - 1983): Lorenzo Treviño de los Santos
• (1983 - 1986): Horacio González de las Casas
• (1986): Gabriel Baeza Vitolás
• (1986 - 1989): Jaime Ríos Velasco
• (1989 - 1990): Oscar Villalobos Chávez
• (1990 - 1992): Gloria Cervantes
• (1992 - 1995): Rogelio Bejarano
• (1995 - 1998): Rogelio Muñoz
• (1998 - 2001): Manuel Soltero Delgado
• (2001 - 2004): Héctor Baeza Terrazas
• (2004 - 2007): Guillermo Márquez Lizalde
• (2007 - 2010): Jesús Heberto Villalobos Maynez