Nuevo Ideal Municipality

Nuevo Ideal is one of the 39 municipalities of Durango, in north-western Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Nuevo Ideal.

Map of Nuevo Ideal, Durango, Mexico

Nuevo Ideal was formerly known as "Patos," and part of the Canatlán Municipality.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 26,092.

As of 2010, the city of Nuevo Ideal had a population of 10,876. Other than the city of Nuevo Ideal, the municipality had 182 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Esfuerzos Unidos (1,083) and Guatimapé (1,083), classified as rural.