Jalisco

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Jalisco
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Capital Guadalajara
surface 80,386 km² (rank 6 )
population 7,950,682 (rank 4 )
Population density 84 inhabitants per km²
(2010 census)
governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez ( MC )
(2018-2024)Template: future / in 4 years
Federal MPs MC = 13
PAN = 3
PRD = 2
Morena = 1
PT = 1
(20 federal constituencies)
Senators MC = 2
PES = 1
ISO 3166-2 MX-JAL
Postal abbreviation Jal.
Website www.jalisco.gob.mx
Flag of the state of Jalisco

Jalisco [ xaˈlisko ], officially Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco (Spanish Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ), is a Mexican state , located on the Pacific Ocean in the west of the country. It borders in the northwest on Nayarit , in the north on Zacatecas and Aguascalientes , in the east on Guanajuato and Michoacán and in the south on Colima . It covers an area of ​​80,386 km² and has about 7,350,000 inhabitants. The capital is Guadalajara .

In ancient times, Jalisco was a kingdom of the Chimalhuacán Confederation , which had friendly relations with the Aztecs . In 1539 the area was subjugated by the Spaniards , it was called Nueva Galicia a province of New Spain .

The biggest tourist attraction is the seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta . The famous city of Tequila is also located in this state.

geography

The state stretches from the Pacific coast over the volcanic mountains in the south with the Colima and the valley of the Río Grande de Santiago with the capital Guadalajara to the mountain range of the Sierra Madre Occidental .

Centrally located in Jalisco is the Lago de Chapala , the largest lake in Mexico.

Population development

year population
1950 1,746,777
1960 2,443,261
1970 3,296,586
1980 4,371,998
1990 5,302,689
1995 5,991,176
2000 6,322,002
2005 6,752,113
2010 7,350,682
2015 7,844,830

administration

Jalisco is divided into twelve regions, which are divided into 125 Municipios .

history

In December 1529, the conquistador Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán started his campaign of conquest against the peoples of western New Spain . He subjugated Jalisco, Zacatecas, Nayarit and Sinaloa. The ruthless search for gold and the bad treatment of the native Indians sparked the Mixtón War in the spring of 1540 . This developed into an uprising against the Spanish colonial power and spread to other regions of Mexico.

On June 3, 1932, a powerful earthquake struck Jalisco, killing around 400 people.

economy

Jalisco is now one of the wealthiest states in Mexico. It is rich in mineral resources, including silver, gold and copper, has a diverse industry and is the land of tequila , which is distilled from the blue agave in the vicinity of the city of the same name .

Guadalajara , the capital of Jalisco, is also called the "Silicon Valley of Mexico", a title that it occasionally has to share with Monterrey in northeastern Mexico. More than 25,000 engineers work here, and since 2014 more than 120 million US dollars have been invested in start-ups.

Personalities

Interesting

In Jalisco, the Río Teuchitlán is the only place where the highland carrot (also: Tequila carafe ) Zoogoneticus tequila can be found . However, this is now considered to be extinct there; it is still kept and propagated in aquariums.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mexico: States and Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bernal Díaz del Castillo The True Story of the Conquest of Mexico p. 722
  3. ↑ Significant Earthquake. In: www.ngdc.noaa.gov. NOAA , accessed February 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Emile A. Okal, José C. Borrero: The 'tsunami earthquake' of 1932 June 22 in Manzanillo, Mexico: seismological study and tsunami simulations . In: Royal Astronomical Society (Ed.): Geophysical Journal International . tape 187 , no. 3 , October 13, 2011, p. 1443-1459 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1365-246X.2011.05199.x (English).
  5. ^ Adam Popescu: Is Mexico the next Silicon Valley? Tech boom takes root in Guadalajara. The Washington Post , May 14, 2016, accessed February 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ B. Kabbes & M. Kempkes (1999): Planned stud book program for the preservation of Zoogeneticus tequila in the aquarium. DGLZ-Rundschau (1): 5-6

Web links

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Coordinates: 20 ° 34 ′  N , 103 ° 41 ′  W