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Guanajuato is the name of a state in Mexico and that state's capital city. This article is about the state. For the city, see Guanajuato, Guanajuato. The Mexican city of Guanajuato is the capital of the state of the same name
State of Guanajuato
Flag of State of Guanajuato
Flag		 Coat of arms of State of Guanajuato
Coat of arms
Location within Mexico
Location within Mexico
Country Flag of Mexico Mexico
Capital Guanajuato
Municipalities 46
Largest City León
Colonized 1520s
Government
 - Governor Juan Manuel Oliva Ramirez (PAN)
 - Federal Deputies PAN: 14
 - Federal Senators Humberto Andrade Quezada (PAN)
Luis Alberto Villarreal García (PAN)
Francisco Arroyo Vieyra (PRI)
Area
Ranked 22nd
 - Total 30,491 km² (11,772. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. The Mexican city of Guanajuato is the capital of the state of the same name Municipalities ( municipios in Spanish) are the second-level administrative division in Mexico (where the first-level administrative division is the The major metropolitan areas of Mexico, as reported in the 2005 census Incorporated places over 100 The city of León, formally León de los Aldama is the fifth most populous city in Mexico and the first in the state of Guanajuato. The United Mexican States (or Mexico) is a union of 31 thirty one States and one Federal District (the Mexican Federal District, or Distrito Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez (born March 21, 1960 - is a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party (PAN who currently serves The Chamber of Deputies (in Spanish: Cámara de Diputados) is the lower house of the Congress of the Union, Mexico 's bicameral 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. Luis Alberto Villarreal García (b November 11, 1974 in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato) is a Mexican politician affiliated to The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI) is a Mexican Political party that wielded 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 6 sq mi)
Population (2005)
 - Total 4,893,812 (Ranked 6th)
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 7662 - medium
Ranked 22nd
ISO 3166-2 MX-GUA
Postal abbr. 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 Human Development ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO Gto.
Website: Guanajuato

Guanajuato is a state in the central highlands of Mexico. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. It shares its name with its capital city, Guanajuato. The Mexican city of Guanajuato is the capital of the state of the same name Guanajuato means "place of frogs" in the local indigenous language. The local Tarascan Indians believed that the frog represented the god of wisdom. A rock formation outside of Guanajuato, looks like frogs. "Las Ranas" is the way to reference anyone from this state as frogs are their state animal. Guanajuato is the home state of former Mexican president Vicente Fox Quesada, and famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera and singer-songwriter Jose Alfredo Jimenez

After central Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico coast, Guanajuato was one of the first areas of Mexico colonized by the Spanish, in the 1520s, for its rich silver deposits. Vicente Fox Quesada ( born July 2 1942) is a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006 and currently Diego Rivera (December 8 1886 &ndash November 24 1957 was born Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez José Alfredo Jiménez (born January 9, 1926 in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, died November 23, 1973 in Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( Spanish: Golfo de México) is the ninth largest Body of water in the world Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Silver (ˈsɪlvɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol " Ag " (argentum from the Ancient Greek: ἀργήντος - argēntos gen Guanajuato's colonial architecture is very well preserved along with over 35 old churches in its capital alone, and is very European in nature.

Today, Guanajuato's mines are still among the richest-producing silver mines in the world (historically one of the largest). The state also produces tin, gold, copper, lead, mercury, and opals. Tin is a Chemical element with the symbol Sn (stannum and Atomic number 50 Gold (ˈɡoʊld is a Chemical element with the symbol Au (from its Latin name aurum) and Atomic number 79 Copper (ˈkɒpɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol Cu (cuprum and Atomic number 29 Characteristics Lead has a dull luster and is a dense, Ductile, very soft highly Mercury (ˈmɜrkjʊri also called quicksilver or hydrargyrum, is a Chemical element with the symbol Hg ( Latinized hydrargyrum OPAL ( Open Pool Australian Lightwater reactor) is a 20 megawatt pool-type nuclear research reactor that was officially opened in April 2007 Guanajuato also leads the nation in shoe production and various farm products such as lettuce and potatoes. The state's main export products are motor vehicles and autoparts, footwear, leather goods, chemicals, electric machinery and materials, fruits and vegetables.

In addition to the state capital city of Guanajuato, the state includes the cities of San Luis de la Paz, Acámbaro, Celaya, León, Salamanca, Irapuato, San Miguel de Allende, Salvatierra—the first city of Guanajuato, Cortazar, Tarimoro, and Dolores Hidalgo, the cradle of Mexican independence. San Luis de la Paz, a charming city with great historic and cultural wealth was founded in August 25 1552 as a defensive town in the Silver Road which linked the Zacatecas mines Acámbaro is a city and municipality in the southeastern corner of the Mexican state of Guanajuato, on the banks of the Lerma River, and the Celaya is a city and its surrounding municipality in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, located in the southeast quadrant of the state The city of León, formally León de los Aldama is the fifth most populous city in Mexico and the first in the state of Guanajuato. Salamanca ( Otomi: Xidoo "Place of Tepetate " is a city in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Irapuato is a Mexican city (and municipality) located at the foot of the Arandas mountain (in Spanish: el cerro de arandas) in the south San Miguel de Allende is the seat of the municipality of Allende Guanajuato, Mexico, a historic town founded in 1542 that has become an attractive tourist destination Salvatierra is a Mexican city (and municipality) located in the valley of Huatzindeo in the lowlands of the state of Guanajuato. Cortazar is a city and its surrounding municipality located in the southeastern quadrant of the state of Guanajuato in Mexico. Tarimoro is the municipal seat of the municipality of Tarimoro in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Dolores Hidalgo (in full Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional) is a city and its surrounding municipality in the north-central part of the Mexican

The first battle in Mexico's war for independence resulted in a march from Dolores Hidalgo upon the capital of the state and the subsequent burning of the granary which held all the Iberian-born Spaniards (approximately 500 men, women and children), by peasants of pure Amerindian or mixed (Mestizo) descent who had been put to work in very harsh conditions. Dolores Hidalgo (in full Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional) is a city and its surrounding municipality in the north-central part of the Mexican Alhóndiga de Granaditas (public granary is an old grain storage building in Guanajuato City, Mexico. For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. Mestizo is a Spanish term that was coined during the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry in Latin

Guanajuato, Guanajuato
Guanajuato, Guanajuato

The state of Guanajuato accounts for more than its proportional share of economic migrations of workers to the United States and Canada. The Mexican city of Guanajuato is the capital of the state of the same name According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race Among the areas favored by migrants from this part of Mexico are the U. S. cities of Dallas, Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, Evanston, Illinois, Los Angeles, California, and Palisade, Colorado. Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U Evanston Illinois is an affluent suburban Chicago Municipality on Lake Michigan on the North Shore in Cook County, Illinois directly Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Palisade is a Statutory Town in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.

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Geography

The state of Guanajuato borders the states of San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Michoacán and Jalisco. San Luis Potosí is the name of both a state in Mexico and that state's capital city Querétaro (former formal name Querétaro Arteaga) is a state in central Mexico. Michoacán formally Michoacán de Ocampo (from Nahuatl Michhuacān "place of the fishermen" is one of the 31 constituent states Jalisco is a state in Mexico. The capital of Jalisco is the city of Guadalajara. It means hills of the frogs. It has an area of 30,589 square kilometers (11,810. 5 sq mi). In the 2005 census, the state had a population of 4,893,812 people. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The literacy rate stands at about 88 percent.

Guanajuato is located in the geographic center of Mexico, about three and half-hours from Mexico City, and its capital city is one of Mexico's most famous tourist spots. It is a UNESCO world heritage site and city planners must abide by strict rules when building and refurbishing buildings in order to maintain their colonial integrity. The city is situated in the Veeder mountains at over 2,000 meters (6,562 ft) above sea level and the buildings climb up the side of the mountains surrounding the city center. The buildings are colorful and there are many historical buildings such as the Reyna and several haciendas-ranches or manor houses-that have been preserved as museums, public gardens and hotels.

The town of Guanajuato has been depicted in various works of art. Most notably, the Mexican-German-Slovakian sculptor/painter Craigorio Hauquitz, has created some of the most breathtaking paintings of Guanajuato in the past century.

Every October, Guanajuato hosts the annual International Cervantes Culture Festival, which is centered in the capital city. The festival features high-level performers and artists from around the world, as well as from many regions of Mexico, in addition to the (often overlooked) traditional presentation of plays by Miguel de Cervantes. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( in modern Spanish; September 29, 1547 &ndash April 22, 1616) was a Spanish Novelist

Government and politics

The Constitution of the State of Guanajuato provides that the government of Guanajuato, like the government of every other state in Mexico, consists of three powers: the executive, the legislative and the judiciary. The Constitution of the State of Guanajuato (Constitución Política del Estado de Guanajuato is the document that describes the structure and function of the Government of For the government of parliamentary systems see Executive (government. Political power ( Imperium in Latin is a type of power held by a group in a Society which allows administration of some or all of In Political science and Constitutional law, the executive is the branch of government responsible for the day-to-day management of the State. A legislature is a type of representative Deliberative assembly with the power to create amend and change Laws The law created by a legislature is called Legislation In Law, the judiciary or judicial system is the system of Courts which administer Justice in the name of the sovereign or State

Executive power rests in the Governor of Guanajuato, who is directly elected by the citizens, using a secret ballot, to a 6-year term with no possibility of reelection. This is a list of the Governors of the Mexican state of Guanajuato since 1917 Legislative power rests in the Congress of Guanajuato which is a unicameral legislature composed of 36 deputies. The Congress of the State of Guanajuato (aka Congress of Guanajuato) is the Legislative branch of the government of the State of Guanajuato. Unicameralism is the practice of having only one legislative or Parliamentary chamber Judicial power is invested in the Superior Court of Justice of Guanajuato.

The last Local elections in Guanajuato were held on July 2, 2006. A local election was held in the Mexican state of Guanajuato on Sunday July 2, 2006. Events 310 - Pope Miltiades is elected 626 - In fear of assassination Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Municipalities

Main article: Municipalities of Guanajuato

The State of Guanajuato is divided into 46 municipalities, each headed by a municipal president (mayor). The Mexican state of Guanajuato is divided into 46 municipalities (municipios A presidente municipal ( English: " municipal president " is the chief of government of Municipios in Mexico Municipalities are named after the city that serves as municipal seat; e. g. the municipal seat of the Municipality of Guanajuato is the City of Guanajuato.

Economy

Fondos Guanajuato Financial Official website

Major Cities

Other pictures

Panorama of Guanajuato, GTO
Panorama of Guanajuato, GTO

References


External links

Dictionary

Guanajuato

-proper noun

  1. A state in the central highlands of Mexico.
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