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Coquimatlán

municipal seat of Coquimatlán, State of Colima, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ494231 ↗
Source-derived summary

Coquimatlán is a city and seat of the municipality of Coquimatlán, in the Mexican state of Colima. As of 2005, it had a population of 11,374.

Editorial summary

“Coquimatlán” enters the record as municipal seat of Coquimatlán, State of Colima, Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Coquimatlán, municipal and seat can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1836-10-19. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Coquimatlán, municipal and seat.
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Why this record matters

“Coquimatlán” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Coquimatlán, municipal and seat provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q494231. VIAF identifies the subject as 157241699. The Library of Congress control number is n91067346. Authority coordinates are 19.201, -103.811. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Coquimatlán” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.