Jesús María, Aguascalientes, Mexico

🇲🇽 Jesús María is a city in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Jesús María.

Jesús María is the second largest city in the state. It is located so close to the state capital city of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, that it has been swallowed by it, rendering it part of the Aguascalientes metropolitan area, with the function of a suburban area.

Geography The municipality has an area of 499.18 km² (192.73 sq mi).

Transport: Road • Mexican Federal Highway 70.

Adjacent municipalities • San José de Garcia Municipality (north) • Pabellón de Arteaga Municipality (north) • San Francisco de los Romo Municipality (east) • Aguascalientes Municipality (southeast) • Calvillo Municipality (west).

Demographics As of 2010, the city of Jesús María, the municipal seat, had a population of 43,012. Other than the city of Jesús María, the municipality had 346 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Jesús Gómez Portugal (Margaritas) (11,589), Paseos de Aguascalientes (4,432), Arboledas Paso Blanco (3,313), Corral de Barrancos (3,158), El Llano (2,571), classified as urban, and Maravillas (2,208), Paso Blanco (1,709), Tepetates (1,683), General Ignacio Zaragoza (Venadero) (1,630), Paseos de las Haciendas (1,596), Valladolid (1,411), San Antonio de los Horcones (1,254), Los Arquitos (1,120), Miravalle (1,071), and Ejido la Guayana (Rancho Seco) (1,028), classified as rural.