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Villa Unión, Durango

municipal seat of Poanas, State of Durango, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2023
Entity authorityQ2913903 ↗
Source-derived summary

Villa Unión is a city and seat of the municipality of Poanas, in the state of Durango, north-western Mexico. As of 2010, the city had a population of 10,753.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Villa, Unión and Durango.
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Why this record matters

“Villa Unión, Durango” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Villa, Unión and Durango 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 Dec 20, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q2913903. Authority coordinates are 23.975, -104.044. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Villa Unión, Durango” 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.