| State of Jalisco | |||
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| Country |  Mexico |
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| Capital | Guadalajara | ||
| Municipalities | 126 | ||
| Largest City | Guadalajara | ||
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| - Governor | Emilio González Márquez (PAN) | ||
| - Federal Deputies | PAN: 18 PRI: 1 |
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| - Federal Senators | Eva Contreras (PAN) Héctor Pérez (PAN) Ramiro Hernández (PRI) |
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| Area Ranked 6th | |||
| - Total | 79,085 km² (30,534. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Guadalajara (ˌgwɑːdləˈhɑːrə Spanish pronunciation) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality 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 Guadalajara (ˌgwɑːdləˈhɑːrə Spanish pronunciation) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality The United Mexican States (or Mexico) is a union of 31 thirty one States and one Federal District (the Mexican Federal District, or Distrito Emilio González Márquez (b November 12, 1960 in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the National The National Action Party ( Spanish Partido Acción Nacional) known by the acronym PAN, is a conservative and Christian democratic 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 Institutional Revolutionary Party ( Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI) is a Mexican Political party that wielded The Senate ( Spanish: Cámara de Senadores or Senado) is the upper house of Mexico 's Bicameral Congress. Eva Contreras Sandoval (b September 28, 1956 in Camotlán, Colima) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action 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 9 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2005) | |||
| - Total | 6,752,113 (Ranked 4th) | ||
| 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 8007 - high Ranked 13th |
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| ISO 3166-2 | MX-JAL | ||
| 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 | Jal. | ||
| Website: www.jalisco.gob.mx | |||
Jalisco is a state of Mexico. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. The capital of Jalisco is the city of Guadalajara. Guadalajara (ˌgwɑːdləˈhɑːrə Spanish pronunciation) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality In the 2005 census, Jalisco had a population of 6,752,113 people. Jalisco is known for being the birthplace of mariachi music and tequila. MARIACHI, the Mixed Apparatus for Radar Investigation of Cosmic-rays of High Ionization, is an apparatus for the detection of Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR Tequila is an agave-based spirit made primarily in the area surrounding Tequila, in the northwest of Guadalajara and in the highlands (
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Etymology
The state's name, meaning "sandy plain," derives from the Nahuatl words xalli (meaning "sand" or "gravel") and ixtli (meaning "face," or, by extension, "plain"). Nahuatl ( is a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan or Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family
Geography
The state of Jalisco borders the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the states of Nayarit to the northwest, Zacatecas, Durango, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí to the north, Guanajuato to the east, and Colima and Michoacán to the south. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions Nayarit is one of Mexico’s 31 states and is located on the central west coast bordering the Pacific Ocean. 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 Durango (duˈɾaŋgo is one of the constituent States of Mexico. Aguascalientes ˌaɰwaskaˈljen̪t̪es is a state of Mexico, situated in the center of the country San Luis Potosí is the name of both a state in Mexico and that state's capital city Guanajuato is the name of a state in Mexico and that state's capital city as well as a river in the area For the state capital of the same name see Colima Colima. There is also a volcano named Colima, and a spider genus Colima ( Zodariidae Michoacán formally Michoacán de Ocampo (from Nahuatl Michhuacān "place of the fishermen" is one of the 31 constituent states It has an area of 79,085 km² (30,535 sq mi).
Mexico's largest freshwater lake, Lake Chapala, lies within the boundaries of Jalisco. Lake Chapala (Lago de Chapala is Mexico 's largest freshwater Lake.
Government and politics
The Constitution of the State of Jalisco provides that the government of Jalisco, like the government of every other state in Mexico, formally consists of three branches: the executive, the legislative and the judiciary. The Constitution of the State of Jalisco (Constitución Política del Estado de Jalisco is the document that describes the structure and function of the Government of the For the government of parliamentary systems see Executive (government. 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 with the Governor of Jalisco, who is directly elected through secret ballot to a 6-year term, with no possibility of reelection. The following is a list of Governors of the Mexican state of Jalisco from 1921 Legislative power rests with the Congress of Jalisco which is a unicameral legislature composed of 40 deputies. The Congress of the State of Jalisco is the Legislative branch of the government of the State of Jalisco. Unicameralism is the practice of having only one legislative or Parliamentary chamber Judicial power is invested in the Superior Court of Justice of Jalisco.
Municipalities and regions
Like the rest of Mexico, the state of Jalisco is divided into municipalities (communes), most of which are named after the town that serves as the municipal seat. The Mexican state of Jalisco is divided into 126 municipalities Unlike English-language municipalities, Mexican municipalities include both a central city or town and surrounding villages, towns and rural land. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or Each municipio has a municipal president. A presidente municipal ( English: " municipal president " is the chief of government of Municipios in Mexico The largest municipio in Jalisco is Mezquitic.
The municipalities are grouped into the following regions (regiones):[1]
- Altos Norte
- Altos Sur
- Centro
- Ciénega
- Costa Norte
- Costa Sur
- Norte
- Sierra de Amula
- Sierra Occidental
- Sur
- Sureste
- Valles
Demography
The population of Jalisco is around 6,753,114 inhabitants according to the 2005 INEGI census. The 2000 INEGI census indicates that there are about 4,000,000 people in the greater Guadalajara metropolitan area. The overall population growth rate for Jalisco in the 2000-2005 period was 1. 8%, and it is estimated that the economically active population is 1,756,501 people.
The majority of Jalisco's population is of Spanish descent, including many from the Criollo caste. Criollo is a term that dates back to the Spanish colonial Casta system ( Caste system) of Latin America People of Amerindian descent, mostly of Huichol origin, make up about 0. For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. The Huichol or Wixáritari are an indigenous ethnic group of western central Mexico, living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the Mexican states of 4% of the population. In addition to those of Huichol descent, some Nahua communities exist along the coast as well as in the interior of the state near present day towns of Tenemaxtlán and Atenguillo. The Nahuas are a group of indigenous peoples of Mexico. Their language of Uto-Aztecan affiliation is called Nahuatl and consists of many The state also contains a large Mestizo population, who are of mixed European and Amerindian descent, centered mostly in and to the east of Guadalajara. Mestizo is a Spanish term that was coined during the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry in Latin According to the latest available census that shows ethnic information, the population was 47. 41% of European descent (White), 43. A White Mexican ( Mexicano Blanco) is any citizen of Mexico who is primarily or solely a descendant of European and/or Middle Eastern 83% Mestizo, and 6. 76% Amerindian[2].
Mestizos
The high population of Mestizo people in Jalisco may have a number of causes. One theory states that Spanish colonial policies favored fairer skinned Amerindians and easily accepted them into European society as long as they acculturated, which allowed for extensive mixing of the races. While this may have been common practice throughout the Spanish Empire, it would have been especially effective in Jalisco due to the many different indigenous tribes (estimates range from 45 to over 60) living within such a small geographic area.
In addition, banning of the Native languages and cultural traditions or migrations within Jalisco (forced or otherwise) led to mixing of many different Amerindian cultures as smaller groups were absorbed into larger groups. Jalisco was also the center of the Amerindian slave trade whereby the Spanish colonial authorities (along with their indigenous allies) raided villages and captured indigenous people for slave labor. The slaves were commonly sent to other areas of Jalisco as well as to other parts of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España was a name given to the Viceroy -ruled territories of the Spanish Empire in North America, Some were traded as far away as New Mexico, the Philippines, and Peru), so racial mixing was extremely widespread. New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP Peru (Perú Piruw Piruw officially the Republic of Peru ( reˈpuβlika del peˈɾu is a country in western South America. [3]
Tequila
Jalisco is the center of the Mexican tequila industry, and the town of Tequila, Jalisco, which gave its name to the famous liquor, is located there. Tequila is an agave-based spirit made primarily in the area surrounding Tequila, in the northwest of Guadalajara and in the highlands ( Tequila is a municipality in the central part of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The volcanic soil covering much of the state of Jalisco is particularly well suited for the cultivation of the blue agave plant, which is used as the base for tequila. Plate tectonics and hotspots Divergent plate boundaries At the Blue agave, the tequila agave of the Agave tequilana species is an Agave plant that is an important economic product of Jalisco
See also
References
- ^ http://www.jalisco.gob.mx/nuestroedo/Municipios/index.html
- ^ Consejo Nacional de Población (CONAPO) 2002. The Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition or shaft tomb culture refers to a set of interlocked cultural traits found in the western Mexican states of Jalisco
- ^ (Spanish) Jalisco. Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Retrieved on 2007-12-06. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev
External links
- (Spanish) Jalisco State Government
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