State of Durango
Flag Coat of arms
Location within Mexico
Country	Mexico
Capital	Durango
Municipalities	39
Government
- Governor	Ismael Hernández Deras (PRI)
- Federal Deputies	PRI: 3 PAN: 1
- Federal Senators	PAN: 2 PRI: 1
Area Ranked 4th
- Total	123,181 km² (47,560. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Durango, formally Victoria de Durango is the capital and largest city of the Mexican Durango, located at. Municipalities ( municipios in Spanish) are the second-level administrative division in Mexico (where the first-level administrative division is the The United Mexican States (or Mexico) is a union of 31 thirty one States and one Federal District (the Mexican Federal District, or Distrito Ismael Alfredo Hernández Deras (b February 20, 1964) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI who The Chamber of Deputies (in Spanish: Cámara de Diputados) is the lower house of the Congress of the Union, Mexico 's bicameral The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI) is a Mexican Political party that wielded The National Action Party ( Spanish Partido Acción Nacional) known by the acronym PAN, is a conservative and Christian democratic The Senate ( Spanish: Cámara de Senadores or Senado) is the upper house of Mexico 's Bicameral Congress. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. The following table presents a listing of Mexico 's 31 federal states (and its Federal District, officially not a state ranked in order of their surface area Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 4 sq mi)
Population (2005)
- Total	1,509,117(Ranked 23th)
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
- Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
HDI (2004)	0. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. The following table is a list of the 31 federal states and the Federal District of Mexico, ranked in order of their total population based on data from the 2000 and The Central Time Zone observes Standard time by subtracting six hours from UTC during standard time ( UTC−6) and five hours during Daylight saving Areas using UTC−6 Single zone countries Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Daylight saving time ( DST The Central Time Zone observes Standard time by subtracting six hours from UTC during standard time ( UTC−6) and five hours during Daylight saving UTC−5 is the Time offset used in the North American Eastern Time Zone during Standard time and in the North American Central Time Zone during The Human Development Index ( HDI) is an index combining normalized measures of Life expectancy, Literacy, Educational attainment, and GDP 7910 - medium Ranked 15th
ISO 3166-2	MX-DUR
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Website: Durango State Government

Durango (pronounced [duˈɾaŋgo]) is one of the constituent states of Mexico. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Its population of the 2005 census was approximately 1,509,117 people. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It has Mexico's second-lowest population density (after Baja California Sur). Baja California Sur (pron BAH-hah kahl'-ee-FORE-nyah SOOR is one of the 31 States of Mexico. The city of Durango is the state's capital. Durango, formally Victoria de Durango is the capital and largest city of the Mexican Durango, located at. Most of the state is heavily mountainous and a good part forested, the Sierra Madre Occidental occupies the western and central part of the state. The Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range in western Mexico and the extreme southwest of the United States, extending 1500 km from southeast Arizona This mountain range contains a good supply of minerals, including the silver that encouraged Spanish occupation of the territory after it was discovered. These mines extend north into Chihuahua and south into the state of Zacatecas. Zacatecas is one of the 31 constituent states of Mexico. It is located in the north-central region and it is bounded to the northwest by Durango Vast desert basins in the Laguna District are irrigated by the Nazas River. The Nazas River is located in the North of Mexico and is shared by the States of Coahuila and Durango. Major crops grown in the area include cotton, wheat, corn, alfalfa, beans, sorghum and other vegetables.

Durango is famous for its scorpions. Mexicans generally refer to the people of Durango as Alacrán de Durango (A scorpion from Durango). The demonym for the natives of Durango is Duranguenses.

The major occupations in Durango are farming, lumbering and ranching. A ranch is an area of landscape including various structures given primarily to the practice of ranching the practice of raising grazing livestock such as Cattle

Francisco de Ibarra, the first to colonize Durango, settled this part of the vast northern province of Nueva Vizcaya in 1563, when he founded the capital city and named it Durango for his native town Durango, Biscay, Spain. Francisco de Ibarra (1539? &ndash 1575 was a Spanish Basque explorer and governor of the Spanish province of Nueva Vizcaya, in present-day Durango is an industrial town situated 30km east from Bilbao in the Biscay province in the Basque Country (northern Spain) Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The foundation was just one in his larger program of initiating settlements throughout the province. This was a late colonization for the Spanish, due mostly to heavy resistance by the indigenous population. From first contact to modern times, the indigenous peoples have attempted to gain some autonomy, address grievances, and maintain traditional land ownership.

Spanish colonists became highly attracted to the Durango area for its mining and grazing prospects. In 1823, shortly after Mexican War of Independence's victory over Spain, Durango earned the right to become a separate state. Year 1823 ( MDCCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common

Municipalities

Durango is divided into 39 municipalities (municipios). A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or See municipalities of Durango. The Mexican state of Durango is divided into 39 municipalities ( municipios)

Major communities

• Durango (Victoria de Durango)
• El Salto
• Gómez Palacio
• Lerdo (Ciudad Lerdo)
• Santiago Papasquiaro
• Tepehuanes
• Santa María del Oro
• Guanaceví

References in Popular Culture

• Bob Dylan co-wrote a song called "Romance in Durango" with Jacques Levy for his 1976 album Desire (album). Durango, formally Victoria de Durango is the capital and largest city of the Mexican Durango, located at. El Salto is a town in the southwestern part of the Mexican state of Durango. Gómez Palacio is a city and its surrounding municipality in northeastern Durango, Mexico, located at 25 Lerdo is a small Mexican city in the eponymous municipality of northeastern Durango state, at co-ordinates 25 Santiago Papasquiaro is a town of 47360 people (2005 census located in a valley in west-central Durango, Mexico. Other use the Tepehuán people Tepehuanes is one of the municipalities of the Mexican state of Durango. Guanaceví is a town located in the northwest of the Mexican state of Durango. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Jacques Levy ( 29 July 1935 &ndash 30 September 2004) was a Jewish American Songwriter, Theatre director Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Desire is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 17th studio album released by Columbia Records in 1976

• In Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, the sports car driven by Alexander deLarge and his droogies is called a "Durango 95. A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 Satirical Science fiction Film adaptation of a 1962 novel of the same name, by Anthony " [1] [2].

• Punk rock band The Ramones often opened their live act with a song called "Durango 95". The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first Punk rock group

• Actor John Candy suffered a fatal heart attack in Durango, while filming his final motion picture Wagons East. John Franklin Candy (October 31 1950 &ndash March 4 1994 was a Canadian Comedian and Actor. Wagons East! is a 1994 Western Comedy film directed by Peter Markle and starring John Candy and Richard Lewis.

• In the book The House of the Scorpion, Mateo Alacran (referred to as "El Patrón"), a drug lord, was born in Durango, as was Celia. The House of the Scorpion is a Science fiction novel by Nancy Farmer published in 2002. The last name he adapted, "Alacran," is a reference to the term Alacran de Durango.

• The film Dragonball by James Wong will be filmed in this state.

The 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt was set in the state of Durango.

Famous Duranguenses

• Francisco "Pancho" Villa
• Patty Gurrola Medina del Arenal
• Ramón Aguirre Salazar
• Dolores Del Rio
• Fanny Anitua
• Ricardo Castro
• Maria de los angeles Mendoza (Martinez)
• Guadalupe Victoria
• Felipe de J. Doroteo Arango Arámbula ( June 5 1878 &ndash July 20 1923) better known as Francisco or " Pancho " Villa Dolores del Río ( August 3, 1905 &ndash April 11, 1983) was a Mexican Film actress. Guadalupe Victoria, born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix ( September 29, 1786 - March 21, 1843) was a Mexican Martinez de la Garza
• Manuel De Jesus Chairez Aguilar

References

External links

• (Spanish) Durango State Government
• (Spanish) Towns, cities, and postal codes in Durango
• John P. Schmal, "The history of indigenous Durango" detailing the series of revolts
• (Spanish) Music history and Durango small harp
• (Spanish) Night Life at Durango
• (Spanish) Messages, Photographs, Local Towns
• (Spanish) Climate Stations in Durango