Ocampo, Guanajuato

Ocampo is a city (and municipality) located in the northwest region of the Mexican state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 1,019.49 square kilometres (3.7% of the surface of the state) and is bordered and to the south and east by San Felipe, to the north by the state of San Luis Potosí, to the west by the state of Jalisco. The municipality had a population of 20,984 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. . The municipaility is named after Melchor Ocampo, a 19th-century liberal statesman. The municipal president of Ocampo and its many smaller outlying communities is Raul Castillo. Fifty schools are located in Ocampo. They include: