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) |
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governor |
Antonio Echevarría García ( PAN ) (2017–2023) |
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Federal MPs |
PT = 1 Morena = 1 PES = 1 (3 federal constituencies) |
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Senators |
PT = 1 Morena = 1 PAN = 1 |
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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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mexico: States and Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved July 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Bernal Díaz del Castillo The True Story of the Conquest of Mexico p. 722
Coordinates: 21 ° 45 ′ N , 105 ° 14 ′ W