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Durango, Durango
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- This article is about the Mexican city. For other uses of the same name, see Durango (disambiguation).
The city of Durango is the capital and largest city of the state of Durango, Mexico, located at .
The city was founded in 1563. In the Spanish colonial era it was the capital of the Nueva Vizcaya province of New Spain, including the present day Mexican states of Durango and Chihuahua.
In the 2005 census the city had a population of 463,830 people. Its surrounding municipality of the same name, of which it serves as municipal seat, had a population of 526,659. The municipality has a relatively large land area of 10,041 km² (3,877 sq mi) and includes such outlying communities as El Nayar and Cinco de Mayo.
- Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
- Municipio de Durango Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
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- Mapping from Multimap or GlobalGuide or Google Maps
- Aerial image from TerraServer
- Satellite image from WikiMapia
- Gobierno Municipal de Durango Official website
- http://www.durangomexico.info - Messages, Photographs, About Local Towns (Spanish)
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