Canatlán Municipality
municipality in the State of Durango, Mexico
Canatlán is a municipality in the Mexican state of Durango. Its municipal seat is the city of Ciudad Canatlán. The municipality covers an area of approximately 468643.1 km2.
As of 2015 census, the municipality had a total population of 32,852. In the 2010 census, the city of Canatlán had a population of 11,495. Apart from the municipal seat, the municipality included 327 localities, the largest of which, as of 2010, were: José Guadalupe Aguilera (Santa Lucía) (1,719), Ricardo Flores Magó (1,467), Veny Carranza (Ocotán) (1,259), San José de Gracia (1,256), and Nicolás Bravo (1,253).
History
The first Jesuit priests arrived in the town of Durango after the insurrection of Tepehuana on January 29, 1620, and built new missions in places where they had previously been established. Franciscan priests built on a small plain near La Sauceda, a mission which they named San Diego de Canatlán. The area was named Canatlan, meaning "nest of land next to water or nesting ground and water", after the mission. The oldest document found Canatlán dates to January 3, 1623, and is a certification made by Fray Diego de Espinoza, president of the Convent of San Diego de Canatlán Mission San Diego de Canatlán, founding the town.
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