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San Juan del Río Municipality, Querétaro

municipality in the State of Querétaro, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3849473 ↗
Source-derived summary

San Juan del Río is a municipality in the central Mexican state of Querétaro. As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 297,804. The municipal seat is at San Juan del Río.

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The public source identifies “San Juan del Río Municipality, Querétaro” as municipality in the State of Querétaro, Mexico. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Juan, Municipality and Querétaro.

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—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Juan, Municipality and Querétaro providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3849473. Authority coordinates are 20.383, -99.983. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “San Juan del Río Municipality, Querétaro” 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.