Ciudad Lerdo (Lerdo City) is a small city in the northeastern portion of the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...

Durango Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...

. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is located at co-ordinates 25.33° N, 103.31° W, bordering southeastern

Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

. As of 2010, the city of Lerdo had a population of 79,669, up from 71,373 people as of 2005. Lerdo Municipality had a population of 141,043. The municipality has an area of 1,868.8 km² (721.5 sq mi). It is part of a greater

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that includes Torreón Municipality and Matamoros Municipality in Coahuila, as well as Gómez Palacio Municipality in Durango. The city is lush with vegetation, but has an arid climate. Ciudad Lerdo is known for its parks, gardens, and ice cream made with fresh milk from local dairies.

Notable people

Dario Alvarado-Torres Dario is a masculine given name, etymologically related to Darius. Given name * Dario Allevi (born 1965), Italian politician * Dario Argento (born 1940), Italian film director * Dario Badinelli (born 1946), Italian triple jumper * Dario Bellezza ...

, U.S. Political Candidate in Oklahoma 2014–Present * Nestor Mesta Chayres, "El Gitano de México" - lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist on the international concert stage. * Francisco Sarabia, first pilot who flew non-stop from Mexico City to New York in 1939. *

Jesús López Luevanos Jesus ( AD 30 or 33) was a Jewish preacher and religious leader who most Christians believe to be the incarnation of God and Muslims believe was a prophet. Jesus may also refer to: People Religious figures * Elymas Bar-Jesus, a Jew in the ''Ac ...

, governor from 1940-1944, notable for uniting all three cities in the Laguna. *

Pepe Jaramillo Pepe Jaramillo (born José Jaramillo García; October 27, 1921, Lerdo - April 30, 2001, Andalucia) was a notable Mexican pianist, composer, arranger, and recording artist. He was most active in London as an EMI recording artist in the 1960s and ...

, renowned pianist of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. *

Luis Ramírez Castruita Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

, baker and designer, known by no one. He has the particular ability of telling useless and doubtful stories compulsively. 1980–Present. * Sonia Sandoval Famous purchaser and dancer

Sister cities

Ciudad Lerdo has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International: * Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States

References

Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005
INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
Durango
Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

External links

Ayuntamiento de Lerdo
Official website {{Authority control Populated places in Durango