Nayarit

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Nayarit
Coat of arms of Nayarit
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Capital Tepic
surface 26,979 km² (rank 23 )
population 1,084,979 (Rank 29 )
Population density 35.5 inhabitants per km²
(2010 census)
governor Antonio Echevarría García ( PAN )
(2017–2023)Template: future / in 3 years
Federal MPs PT = 1
Morena = 1
PES = 1
(3 federal constituencies)
Senators PT = 1
Morena = 1
PAN = 1
ISO 3166-2 MX-NAY
Postal abbreviation Nay.
Website www.nayarit.gob.mx

Nayarit [ naʝaˈrit] , officially Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit ( Spanish Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit ), is a Mexican state , located on the Pacific coast .

It has existed since 1917; the area of ​​today's federal state was previously, since 1885, the military district of Tepic. It has about 1,000,000 inhabitants on 26,979 km². About 330,000 people live in the capital Tepic . The name Tepic comes from the Indian language of the area and means "place between mountains". It lies between Sinaloa and Jalisco , to which Nayarit belonged until 1885 .

Nayarit is further subdivided into 20 Municipios . In Nayarit lies the small swamp settlement of Mexcaltitán , which is sometimes thought to be the original home of the Aztecs .

The Marias Islands also belong to the state .

Population development

year population
1950 290.124
1960 389.929
1970 544.031
1980 726.120
1990 824,643
1995 896.702
2000 920.185
2005 949.684
2010 1,084,979
2015 1,181,050

history

The conquistador Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán began his campaign of conquest against the peoples of western New Spain in December 1529 . In doing so, he also subjugated Nayarit. The bad treatment of the indigenous Indians triggered the Mixtón War in the spring of 1540 in Tepic, the capital of today's state . As a rebellion against the Spanish colonial power, it spread to other regions of Mexico.

Web links

Commons : Nayarit  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Nayarit  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mexico: States and Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved July 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bernal Díaz del Castillo The True Story of the Conquest of Mexico p. 722

Coordinates: 21 ° 45 ′  N , 105 ° 14 ′  W