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Municipality (Mexico)

State Municipalities
 Aguascalientes 11
 Baja California 5
 Baja California Sur 5
 Campeche 11
 Chiapas 118
 Chihuahua 67
 Coahuila 38
 Colima 10
 Durango 39
 Guanajuato 46
 Guerrero 81
 Hidalgo 84
 Jalisco 125
 México 125
 Michoacán 113
 Morelos 33
 Nayarit 20
 Nuevo León 52
 Oaxaca 570
 Puebla 217
 Querétaro 18
 Quintana Roo 10
 San Luis Potosí 58
 Sinaloa 18
 Sonora 72
 Tabasco 17
 Tamaulipas 43
 Tlaxcala 60
 Veracruz 212
 Yucatán 106
 Zacatecas 58

Municipalities (municipios in Spanish) are the second-level administrative division in Mexico, where the first-level administrative division is the state (Spanish: estado). There are 2,438 municipalities in Mexico, with an average population 45,616. The internal political organization and their responsibilities are outlined in the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution and further expanded in the constitutions of the states to which they belong.

All Mexican states are divided into municipalities. Each municipality is administratively autonomous; citizens elect a "municipal president" (presidente municipal) who heads an ayuntamiento or municipal council, responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. This concept, which originated after the Mexican Revolution, is known as a municipio libre ("free municipality"). A municipal president heads the ayuntamiento (municipal council). The municipal president is elected by plurality and cannot be reelected for the next immediate term. The municipal council consists of a cabildo (chairman) with a síndico and several regidores (trustees).

If the municipality covers a large area and contains more than one city or town (collectively called localidades), one city or town is selected as a cabecera municipal (head city, seat of the municipal government) while the rest elect representatives to a presidencia auxiliar or junta auxiliar (auxiliary presidency or council). In that sense, a municipality in Mexico is roughly equivalent to the counties of the United States, whereas the auxiliary presidency is equivalent to a township. Nonetheless, auxiliary presidencies are not considered a third-level administrative division since they depend fiscally on the municipalities in which they are located.


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