Municipality in Colima, Mexico
Cuauhtémoc is a municipality in the Mexican state of Colima . Its municipal seat is the city of Cuauhtémoc, Colima .
The municipality of Cuauhtémoc covers a total surface area of 373.2 km². In the 2005 INEGI Census, it reported a total population of 25,576 (down from 26,771 five year earlier),
of whom 7,513 lived in the municipal seat.
The municipality was created on 15 January 1915. Its name honours the last tlatoani of the Aztec people, Cuauhtemoc .
Settlements in the municipality
Locality
Population
Municipal total
25,576
Cuauhtémoc (municipal seat)
7,513
Quesería
8,133
El Trapiche
2,700
Alcaraces
1,800
Buenavista
1,200
All the municipality's other settlements have fewer than 1,000 inhabitants.
Government
Municipal presidents
Term
Municipal president
Political party
Notes
1919[1]
Luis Zamora Guízar
1920
Valentín Mendoza
1921
J. Jesús Curiel
1922
Toribio Rodríguez
1923
Filomeno Preciado
1924
Miguel Tejada Rosas
1925
Jesús Vizcaíno
1926
Miguel Tejada Rosas
1926
Rafael Curiel
1927
Francisco Velasco
1928-1929
Benito Tejeda Rosas
1930
Anastacio García
PNR
1931
Heliodoro Bayardo
PNR
1931
J. Trinidad Santa Ana
PNR
1931
Raymundo Preciado
PNR
1932
??
PNR
1933-1934
Anastacio García
PNR
1935
Amado Barbosa
PNR
1935
Ildefonso González
PNR
1936
J. Trinidad Santa Ana
PNR
1937
Ramón Barbosa
PNR
1937
Jesús Muñoz
PNR
1938
Amado Barbosa
PNR
1938
Leopoldo Heredia
PRM
1939-1940
J. Concepción Meza
PRM
1940
Rafael Curiel
PRM
1941
Florencio Larios T.
PRM
1942
Víctor González C.
PRM
1943-1945
Rafael Curiel
PRM
1946-1948
Francisco Velasco Galindo
PRI
1949-1950
Porfirio González Curiel
PRI
1951
Carlos Zamora Ceballos
PRI
1951
Irineo González
PRI
1952-1954
Rafael Tejada Ochoa
PRI
1955
Vicente Silva Preciado
PRI
1956-1958
José Preciado González
PRI
1959-1961
Gabino Pinto Solís
PRI
1962-1963
Jorge Velasco Márquez
PRI
1964
José Tejada Velasco
PRI
1965
David Díaz Romero
PRI
1966-1967
Gonzalo Verduzco Curiel
PRI
1968-1970
Valentín Santa Ana Ugarte
PRI
1971
Rodolfo Núñez Silva
PRI
1972-1973
Rafael Ávalos C.
PRI
1974-1976
Vicente Silva Preciado
PRI
1977-1979
Rodolfo González Rodríguez
PRI
1980-1982
Librado Silva García
PRI
1982
Lino Romero Velasco
PRI
1983-1985
Alfredo Romero Velasco
PRI
1986-1988
Epigmenio Plascencia Rangel
PRI
1989-1991
L. Humberto Santa Ana Ugarte
PRI
1992-1994
Ricardo Galindo Velasco
PRI
1995-1997
Salvador Solís Aguirre
PRI
1998-2000
José de Jesús Plascencia Herrera
PRI
2000-2003
César Ceballos Gómez
PRI
2003-2006
Salvador Solís Aguirre
PRI
2006-2009
José Luis Aguirre Campos
PRI PVEM
Coalition "Alliance for Colima"
15/10/2009-14/10/2012
José de Jesús Plascencia Herrera
PRI
15/10/2012-14/10/2015
Indira Vizcaíno Silva
PRD
15/10/2015-23/03/2018[2]
Rafael Mendoza Godínez
PAN
He applied for temporary leave, to run for reelection
24/03/2018-2018
Moisés Morán Gallegos
PAN
Acting municipal president
2018-09/12/2020[3]
Rafael Mendoza Godínez
PAN
He was reelected on 01/07/2018. Resumed. Applied for temporary leave again
10/12/2020-14/01/2021
Julio Borjas Cárdenas
PAN
Acting municipal president
15/01/2021-14/10/2021
Rafael Mendoza Godínez
PAN
Resumed
15/10/2021-14/10/2024[4]
Gabriela Mejía Martínez
PAN PRI PRD
Coalition "It Goes for Colima"
References