Municipio (Mexico)
State | Number of Municipios |
---|---|
Aguascalientes | 11 |
Baja California | 5 |
Baja California Sur | 5 |
Campeche | 11 |
Chiapas | 124 |
Chihuahua | 67 |
Coahuila | 38 |
Colima | 10 |
Durango | 39 |
Guanajuato | 46 |
Guerrero | 81 |
Hidalgo | 84 |
Jalisco | 125 |
México | 125 |
Michoacan | 113 |
Morelos | 33 |
Nayarit | 20th |
Nuevo León | 51 |
Oaxaca | 570 |
Puebla | 217 |
Querétaro | 18th |
Quintana Roo | 11 |
San Luis Potosí | 58 |
Sinaloa | 18th |
Sonora | 72 |
Tabasco | 17th |
Tamaulipas | 43 |
Tlaxcala | 60 |
Veracruz | 212 |
Yucatan | 106 |
Zacatecas | 58 |
A Mexican Municipio is an administrative district in the North American state of Mexico , comparable to a district or municipality in Germany. It is the second highest level of subdivision after the Estado .
Political structure
A municipality is an independent administrative unit, as long as it does not affect national or federal territories. The concept is enshrined in Article 115 of the Mexican Constitution under the name Municipio Libre . Each municipality is presided over by an Ayuntamiento , who is determined in free and secret ballot and whose supreme representative is the Presidente Municipal . He is directly elected and cannot be re-elected in the following legislative period, but can be re-elected at a later date.
A municipality includes at least one, but usually several settlements ( localidades ). If there are several localidades in a municipality, the largest is usually the seat ( Cabecera ) of Ayuntamiento, to which the others send their elected representatives.
Data
Currently (as of January 1, 2018), 31 states are divided into a total of 2,448 municipalities. The municipality with the largest area is Ensenada in Baja California with 51,952.26 km², the smallest is Natividad in Oaxaca with 2.22 km². Ecatepec de Morelos in México has the highest population with 1,656,107, and Santa Magdalena Jicotlán in Oaxaca has the lowest with 93 (as of 2010 census). The twenty municipalities with the lowest number of inhabitants are all in Oaxaca, the state with the largest number of municipalities (570). Baja California and Baja California Sur have the fewest municipalities with five each.
tasks
The municipality is sovereignly responsible for:
- Water and sewage
- Collection and disposal of waste
- Markets and supply centers
- Street lighting
- Public safety within the meaning of Section 21
- traffic
- graveyards
- Streets, parks and gardens
Furthermore, national or federal tasks can be delegated by the responsible government in coordination. Which includes:
- education
- Emergency and health services
- protection of the environment
- Maintenance of monuments and historical sites
Mexico city
Mexico City is an exception and is neither a municipality nor is the city subdivided into such; instead Mexico City is divided into 16 delegaciones .