Departments of the Second 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 I. He commissioned Mexican scholar Manuel Orozco y Berra to draw boundaries based on geography of Mexico. Each of the 50 departments was to be governed by a prefect. There were many new departments in the plan, carved out of existing Mexican states: Acapulco, Álamos, Arizona, Autlán, Batopilas, Coalcomán, Ejutla, Fresnillo, Huejuquilla, Iturbide, La Laguna, Mapimí, Matamoros, Matehuala, Mazatlán, Nazas, El Potosí, Tancítaro, Tehuantepec, Teposcolula, Toluca, Tula, Tulancingo, Tuxpan, and Valle de México (Mexico City). This plan was never implemented in full before the fall of Maximilian's regime and the return of republican rule under President Benito Juárez.

The fifty departments of the Mexican Empire

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