Country Mexico Municipality Práxedis G. Guerrero Area 809 km² Population 2,128 (2010) Postal code 32780 | State Chihuahua Founded 1849 Elevation 1,100 m Local time Tuesday 4:29 PM Area code 656 | |
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Práxedis Gilberto Guerrero is the municipal seat of the municipality of Práxedis G. Guerrero in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
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Map of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Chihuahua, Mexico
In the 2005 Census, the town reported a population of 3,431. Only five years later, at the 2010 census, the population had declined dramatically to 2,128 inhabitants.
History
The town was founded in 1849, as San Ignacio, by the priest Ramón Ortiz y Miera. The original settlers were a group of people from Texas and New Mexico, who did not wish to remain in the United States following the cession of those territories under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Its current name was given to it by the State Congress in December 1983, to honour the Revolutionary leader Práxedis G. Guerrero, who was killed in action in Janos, Chihuahua, on 30 December 1910.