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The Congress is the governmental deliberative body of Chihuahua, which is equal to, and independent of, the executive. The Congress is unicameral and consists of 33 deputies . 22 deputies are elected on a first-past-the-post basis, one for each district in which the entity is divided, while 11 are elected through a system of proportional ...
Chihuahua, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua, [b] is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.It is located in the northwestern part of Mexico and is bordered by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the southwest, Durango to the south, and Coahuila to the east.
The state of Chihuahua was created on July 6, 1824, as one of the original states of the federation recognized by the 1824 Constitution. It has survived through all the different systems of government Mexico has had, both the federal system and the central system, and so its status has changed between that of a state and a department ; along ...
The Museo de la Lealtad Republicana (Museum of the Republican Loyalty), also known as the Museo Casa Juárez, is a 19th-century building in the city centre of Chihuahua, Mexico. It housed the constitutional government of President Benito Juárez during his stay in Chihuahua while Maximilian of Habsburg reigned as Emperor of Mexico, supported by ...
The mayor's authority includes the state capital, the city of Chihuahua, Chih. Since the city serves as the municipal seat and is home to the vast majority of the municipality's population, the position of municipal president is frequently identified with the city, rather than the municipality.
Mexican Universal Chihuahua is a pageant in Chihuahua, Mexico, that selects that state's representative for the national Mexicana Universal pageant. In 2005 was not sent to a State Representative. The State Organization has produced one Nuestra Belleza México titleholder in 1995 with Vanessa Guzmán , she being the first and only woman from ...
The city of Chihuahua or Chihuahua City (Spanish: Ciudad de Chihuahua [sjuˈða(ð) ðe tʃiˈwawa]; Lipan: Ją’éłąyá) is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. [4] [1] As of 2020, the city of Chihuahua had a population of 925,762 inhabitants. [2] while the metropolitan area had a population of 988,065 inhabitants. [2]
Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua, was established in 1567 by Spanish conquistador Rodrigo del Rio de Losa during the rule of Francisco de Ibarra, governor of the state of Nueva Vizcaya, New Spain. The native peoples in the region when the Spanish arrived were the Conchos people who according to Spanish records lived on a diet consisting of mainly ...