Departments of the Second Mexican Empire

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The fifty departments of the Mexican Empire

The Departments of the Second Mexican Empire were the administrative divisions that the nation was organized into during the short rule of Emperor Maximilian. He commissioned Mexican scholar Manuel Orozco y Berra to redraw boundaries based on geography. Each department was to be governed by a prefect, though the entire nation was never able to be administered by the imperial government due to an ongoing war against supporters of the Mexican Republic.

List of Departments[]

Population by department
Number Department Total population Capital Prefect[1] Population Surface (Sq Leagues) Pop. Density
XXL 97,949 Acapulco 3,000 1,965 49.85
XXX Aguascalientes 433,151 Aguascalientes Francisco R. de Esparza 23,000 1,768 244.99
XLIV 41,041 Álamos 6,000 2,657 15.45
XLVI Arizona 25,603 Altar José Moreno Bustamante 1,000 4,852 5.28
XXVII 82,624 Autlán 3,000 1,394 59.27
XLVIII 71,481 Hidalgo 3,000 2,967 24.09
L California 12,420 La Paz 500 8,437 1.47
II 126,368 Campeche Manuel Ramos 15,500 2,975 42.48
V 157,317 San Cristóbal de las Casas 10,500 1,871 84.08
XLIX 65,824 Chihuahua Luis Terrazas 12,000 5,341 12.32
XXXVIII 63,178 Saltillo Francisco de la Peña y Fuentes 9,000 3,996 15.81
XXIV 96,450 Coalcomán Antonio Pallares 3,000 993 97.13
XXV 136,733 Colima Jose Maria Mendoza 31,000 1,131 120.90
XLII 103,608 Durango Buenaventura G. Saravia 14,000 3,394 30.53
VIII 93,675 Ejutla 7,128 1,157 80.96
XXXII 82,860 Fresnillo Mariano Rodriguez 12,000 2,299 36.04
XXIX 601,850 Guanajuato 63,000 1,452 414.50
XX 124,836 Chilpancingo 3,000 1,668 74.84
XLVII 16,092 Jiménez 3,000 4,479 3.59
XVIII 157,619 Taxco Francisco Casanova 5,000 833 189.22
XXVI 219,987 Guadalajara Mariano Morett 70,000 1,252 175.71
III 47,000 El Carmen Manuel Maria Sandoval 5,000 1,685 27.89
XXXIX 6,777 San Fernando de Rosas 1,000 4,528 1.50
XXXVI 41,000 Matamoros Pedro J. de la Garza 41,000 2,195 18.68
XXXIV 82,427 Matehuala 3,500 2,097 39.31
XL 94,387 Mazatlán Gregorio Almeda 15,000 2,116 44.61
XXII 417,378 Morelia Ramon Mendez 25,000 1,750 238.5
XXVIII 78,605 Acaponeta Manuel Rivas 2,000 1,718 45.75
XLIII 46,495 Indé 5,000 3,089 15.05
XXXVII 152,645 Monterrey Jose Maria Garcia 14,000 2,379 64.16
VII 235,845 Oaxaca Juan P Franco 25,000 1,839 128.25
XXXIII 308,116 San Luis Potosí 34,000 2,166 142.25
XII 467,788 Puebla Alonso Manuel Peon 75,000 1,141 409.98
XIX 273,515 Querétaro Manuel Gutierrez 48,000 946 289.13
XLI 82,185 Culiacán 9,000 2,576 31.90
XLV 80,129 Ures Santiago Campillo 7,000 4,198 19.09
IV 99,930 San Juan Bautista 6,000 1,905 52.46
XXXV 71,470 Ciudad Victoria José de Emparan 6,000 1,969 36.30
XXIII 179,100 Tancítaro 2,000 1,194 150.00
VI 85,275 El Suchil Luciano Prieto - 1,999 42.66
IX 160,720 Teposcolula 1,200 1,352 118.88
XIII 339,571 Tlaxcala Bibiano Beltran 4,000 1,030 329.68
XVII 311,853 Toluca Gonzalez Fuentes 12,000 1,095 284.80
XVI 178,174 Tula Eligio Ruelas 5,000 617 288.77
XV 266,678 Tulancingo Agustin Ricoy 6,000 1,030 258.91
XI 97,940 Tuxpan 6,000 1,325 73.92
XIV 481,796 Mexico Jose Maria Mendoza 200,000 410 1,175.11
X 265,159 Veracruz Domingo Bureau 10,000 2,119 125.13
I 263,547 Mérida José García Jurado 24,000 4,902 53.76
XXXI 192,823 Zacatecas Jose María Avila 16,000 1,785 108.02

The information from this table was the estimate for the year 1865.[2]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Almanaque Imperial para el año de 1866 (PDF). J.M. Lara. 1866. pp. 57–68.
  2. ^ La división territorial del Segundo Imperio Mexicano, 1865. Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México, UNAM
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