Municipalities o Mexico

By population

Data frae the Conteo 2005 by INEGI.^[2]

Bi aurie

Data frae Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial by the Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal^[3]

Mexico Ceety is a special case in that it is no organisit as a municipality, but as a federal destrict as the caipital o the federation. It is admeenistered through the Govrenment o the Federal Destrict an it haes its ain unicameral Legislative Assembly. For admeenistrative purposes, the Federal Destrict is subdivided into delegaciones or burghs. Tho there nae fou equivalent tae a municipality, syne 2000, they hae a certain degree o poleetical autonomy, in that residents athin a burgh elect a local borough heid o govrenment (cried jefe delegacional) direct. Housomeivver, burghs dinnae form local [municipal] councils an they arnae constitute bi a group o trustees. They dinnae hae regulatory pouers, whilk is maistly centralisit in the Federal Destrict govrenment. The majority o the ceety's public services is organisit bi the Federal Destrict even gif part o the administration responsibilities is cairriet oot bi the burghs. In maugre o this, at the federal level, the delegaciones o the Federal Destrict is considered a seicont-level territorial diveesion in statistical data collection an cross-municipal comparisons.

Ither municipalities in Mexico hae chosen tae uise a seimilar admeenistrative internal organisation. Aw municipalities o Baja California are subdividit intae burghs or delegaciones. The Mexicali Municipal;ity for insaumple, is dividit intae 14 burghs besides the ceety o Mexicali whilk comprises the municipal seat an three addeetional metropolitan burghs. The municipality o Santiago de Querétaro, is subdividit intae seiven burghs. Nanetheless, the heids o govrenment o the burghs o Mexican municipalities arenae elect bi the residents but appoint bi the municipal preses. Unalike the burghs o Mexico Ceety, whilk is seicont-level admeenistrative diveesions, the burghs o the municipalities constitute third-level admeenistrative diveesions.

• Leet o Mexican municipalities: fou leet, bi state
• Dounset classification in Mexico
• Burghs o Mexico

• Mexican government structure
• History Archived 2006-10-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Spaingie) of the Mexican constitution
• Mexico Portal de Información Municipal Archived 2007-02-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Spaingie)

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