Manuel Doblado is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 municipality

Municipalities of Guanajuato

The Mexican state of Guanajuato is divided into 46 municipalities :- References :*Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía : «Principales resultados por localidad 2005 » ....

 located in the state of Guanajuato

Guanajuato

Guanajuato officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 46 municipalities and its capital city is Guanajuato....

. Its municipal seat
is the city of the same name. Manuel Doblado has an area of 810.43 square kilometres (2.67% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by Romita

Romita

Romita is a Mexican city located in the Southwest region of the state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 442.10 square kilometres and is bordered to the north by León, to the east by Silao, to the southeast by Abasolo and Cuerámaro, and to the east by Manuel Doblado and San Francisco...

, Purísima del Rincón

Purísima del Rincón

Purísima del Rincón is a Mexican municipality located in the state of Guanajuato. Its municipal seat is the city of Purísima de Bustos.The municipality has an area of 288.44 square kilometres , and is bordered to the north and east by San Francisco del Rincón, to the south by Manuel Doblado, and to...

 and San Francisco del Rincón

San Francisco del Rincón

San Francisco del Rincón is a city and municipality in the western part of the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. The city serves as the municipal seat for the municipality of San Francisco del Rincón...

, to the southeast by Cuerámaro

Cuerámaro

Cuerámaro is a Mexican city located in Southwest region of the state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 254.85 square kilometres and is bordered to the north by Romita, to the east by Abasolo, to the south by Pénjamo, and to the west by Manuel Doblado...

, to the south by Pénjamo

Pénjamo

Penjamo Hidalgo Cradle, is the City head-board of the homonymous Municipality, one of 46 municipalities of Guanajuato's Mexican state. It is one of the cities with major commercial movement of the State, and is considered to be the major City of the Southwest of the entity and the city number 17...

, and to the west by the state of Jalisco

Jalisco

Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...

. The municipality had a population of 38,309 inhabitants according to the 2005 census. .

The municipality has been known at various times as Piedra Gorda (from 1681 to 1693), San Pedro Piedra Gorda (from 1693 to 1899), and since 1899 as Manuel Doblado, in honor of a distinguished lawyer born in the municipality.

The municipal president of Manuel Doblado and its many smaller outlying communities is Leopoldo Villanueva Chávez.