Localities (Spanish: Localidades) are the basic level of administrative divisions of Mexico that correspond to distinct settlements.
The divisions of municipalities and boroughs are regulated solely by constitutions and laws of the respective federative entities.
The federal government has established the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, INEGI) to maintain the statistics and encoding of the administrative divisions across the country.
The INEGI uses the term localities (Spanish: localidades) to collectively refer to these types of division.
The INEGI's definition of localities is: "All places with one or more dwellings, who may be inhabited or not, and can be classed as urban or rural.