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List of Mexican states by HDI|blank1_name =ISO 3166-2 of [Mexico. It is located in the north-central region and it is bounded to the northwest by
Durango, to the north by Coahuila and
Nuevo León, to the east by
San Luis Potosí, to the south by
Aguascalientes and
Guanajuato and to the southwest by Jalisco and Nayarit. The state is best known for its rich deposits of silver, its colonial architecture and its importance during the revolution. The state is also known as one of the safest states in the country. Zacatecas has 58 municipalities and the main economic activities are mining, agriculture and tourism. The state shares its name with its capital and chief center of population, the city of
Zacatecas, Zacatecas.
Etymology
"Zacatecas" is the
Nahuatl-derived name for one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the region before the arrival of the Spanish. The name ultimately derives from the Nahuatl word for a type of grass common in the region,
zacatl. The region where this grass grew was originally called
Zacatlan, and its inhabitants,
Zacateca, pluralized in Mexican Spanish to
Zacatecas.
Besides the Zacateco, the
Caxcan, Guachichil, and
Tepehuan were also reported by the Spanish to be inhabiting the region which comprises the modern state of Zacatecas.
Foundation
On September 8, 1546, with the discovery of its mines, the present city of Zacatecas was founded. It was originally baptized "Minas de los Zacatecas" or "Mines of the Zacatecas". Its rich mineral wealth gave the Spanish Crown a great amount of income (the silver mines in Zacatecas and Potosi, Bolivia, were the Spanish crown's largest sources of income during colonialism), which gave the city of Zacatecas the title of "Ciudad de Nuestra Señora de los Zacatecas".
Geography
Zacatecas is located in the great central plateau of Mexico, with an average elevation of about . The state is somewhat mountainous, being traversed in the west by lateral ranges of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and by numerous isolated ranges in other parts – Mazapil, Norillos, Guadalupe and others. There are no large rivers, only the small head-streams of the Aguanaval in the north, and of the Guazamota, Bolanos and Juchipila in the west, the last three being tributaries of the Rio Grande de Santiago.
Flora
There are forest of
pines and
evergreens in the sierras; in the valleys and plains there is a great abundance of
mesquite, maguey, cactus, agave, pastures, Acacia farnesiana var. farnesiana, and many other semi-desertic plants.
Fauna
In the sierras there are many wild boar, white-tailed deer and hares; in the valleys and plains it is common to find coyote, badgers,
quails and ducks.
Economy
The agricultural products are cereals,
sugar and
maguey, the first being dependent on the rainfall, often failing altogether, the second on irrigation in the lower valleys, and the latter doing best in a dry climate on a calcareous soil with water not far beneath the surface. There is also a considerable production of
peaches, apricots and grapes, the last being made into
wine. A few
cattle are raised, and considerable attention is given to the rearing of
sheep, goats and swine. A natural product is
guayule, a shrub from which rubber is extracted.
The chief industry of Zacatecas, however, is mining for
silver,
gold, Mercury (element),
copper, iron, zinc, lead, bismuth,
antimony and
Sodium chloride. Its mineral wealth was discovered soon after the conquest, and some of its mines are among the most famous of Mexico, dating from
1546. One of the most productive of its silver mines, the Alvarado, has records which show a production of nearly $800,000,000 in silver between 1548 and 1867. Thanks to Zacatecas and its mines, Mexico has been the largest producer of silver in the world.
The state is traversed by the Mexican Central and the Mexican National railways. Its manufactures are limited chiefly to the reduction of mineral ores, the extraction of rubber from
guayule, the making of sugar,
rum,
mezcal,
pulque,
wool and
cotton fabrics, and some minor industries of the capital.
Demographics
The state of Zacatecas has a population of 1,441,734 inhabitants. It has more than tripled in a century, in 1900 its population was 462,190. About 75% of the population is mestizo and 25% is
Caucasian race. In the year 2000, Zacatecas had the smallest indigenous population percentage-wise in Mexico: 0.3%. Only the state of Aguascalientes has a smaller number of indigenous people, numbering 3,472; Zacatecas has 4,039 indigenous people.In the last ten years, Zacatecas' population has grown a mere 6%, well below the country's average growth of 20%. . It is estimated that half of the people from Zacatecas do not reside in the state. The biggest concentration of Zacatecanos outside Mexico is in the United States, with a population of approximately 800,000-1,000,000, almost as many people as in the state itself. Most are concentrated in cities such as, Chicago,
Denver,
Dallas,
Houston,
Los Angeles and
Phoenix, Arizona. It fact, there are more
Zacatecanos living in the Los Angeles area than in the city of Zacatecas itself.
Cities
The largest city in terms of population in the state of Zacatecas is Fresnillo, with a population of 183,236 (2005). It is followed by the state capital of
Zacatecas, Zacatecas with a population of 118,562 (2005). Next is Sombrerete with 61,652.
Image:Presidencia puri.jpg|FresnilloImage:SanFranciscoZacatecas.jpg|Zacatecas, ZacatecasImage:San Francisco.jpg|Sombrerete, ZacatecasImage:Jerez0002.jpg|Jerez de García SalinasImage:Tlaltenango.jpg|
Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román
Touristic cities
The state had touristic cities like: Zacatecas, Zacatecas,
Sombrerete, and Jerez de García Salinas, and places like Sierra de Organos, Sierra de Cardos, Altavista. Arriba fresnillo.
- Zacatecas: The colonial center of this city is a UNESCO World Heritage site and features elaborately decorated buildings, cobblestoned streets, and wrought-iron lanterns.
- Sombrerete: Colonial city established in 1555 as a village, actually is a small city, is the fifth most important in the state, and consider the second most beautiful city in the state. The city features old and beautiful churches built in the New Spain Era, decorated and old buildings. The municipality had touristic forests, and Sierra de Organos, famous place in the world for filmed western movies.
- Jerez de Garcia Salinas: City near of Zacatecas City, had colonial buildings and the Parroquial Church, known internacionally by Lopez Velarde a writer born in that city.
Government
The current governor of Zacatecas is
Amalia García (Party of the Democratic Revolution) who will end her 6 year term in 2010 after winning the election of 2004. She became the first female governor on September 12, 2004. The state is represented by three representatives in the Senate of Mexico: Mejía Haro Antonio (
Party of the Democratic Revolution),
Tomás Torres Mercado (
Party of the Democratic Revolution) and José Isabel Trejo Reyes (National Action Party (Mexico)). Zacatecas also has 9 representatives in the
Chamber of Deputies of Mexico: 9 of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, 3 of the National Action Party (Mexico) and 1 of the
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico.
Administrative divisions
See: municipalities of Zacatecas.Zacatecas is subdivided into 58 municipalities
(Municipality). Municipality of Mazapil by far is the largest municipality in the state, occupying about 16% of the area of the state. The
Municipality of Momax is the smallest one in area with only 164.538 km².
Major communities
Notable people
- Antonio Aguilar, singer, actor
- Cynthia Klitbo, actress
- Pepe Aguilar, singer
- Rebecca de Alba, model
- Susana González, actress
- Don Juan de Oñate, Mexican-born conquistador of Spanish parents
- Manuel María Ponce, composer
- Los Acuario de México, music group
- Los Temerarios, music group
- Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet of the 19th Century, poet of "La Suave Patria"
- Florinda Meza, actress
External links
- Zacatecas state government
- Zacatecas Web Portal
- Towns, cities, and postal codes in Zacatecas
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List of Mexican states by HDI|blank1_name =ISO 3166-2 of [Mexico. It is located in the north-central region and it is bounded to the northwest by
Durango, to the north by Coahuila and
Nuevo León, to the east by
San Luis Potosí, to the south by Aguascalientes and
Guanajuato and to the southwest by
Jalisco and Nayarit. The state is best known for its rich deposits of silver, its colonial architecture and its importance during the revolution. The state is also known as one of the safest states in the country. Zacatecas has 58 municipalities and the main economic activities are mining, agriculture and tourism. The state shares its name with its capital and chief center of population, the city of
Zacatecas, Zacatecas.
Etymology
"Zacatecas" is the Nahuatl-derived name for one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the region before the arrival of the Spanish. The name ultimately derives from the Nahuatl word for a type of grass common in the region,
zacatl. The region where this grass grew was originally called
Zacatlan, and its inhabitants,
Zacateca, pluralized in
Mexican Spanish to
Zacatecas.
Besides the
Zacateco, the
Caxcan, Guachichil, and Tepehuan were also reported by the Spanish to be inhabiting the region which comprises the modern state of Zacatecas.
Foundation
On September 8,
1546, with the discovery of its mines, the present city of Zacatecas was founded. It was originally baptized "Minas de los Zacatecas" or "Mines of the Zacatecas". Its rich mineral wealth gave the Spanish Crown a great amount of income (the silver mines in Zacatecas and Potosi, Bolivia, were the Spanish crown's largest sources of income during colonialism), which gave the city of Zacatecas the title of "Ciudad de Nuestra Señora de los Zacatecas".
Geography
Zacatecas is located in the great central plateau of Mexico, with an average elevation of about . The state is somewhat mountainous, being traversed in the west by lateral ranges of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and by numerous isolated ranges in other parts – Mazapil, Norillos, Guadalupe and others. There are no large rivers, only the small head-streams of the Aguanaval in the north, and of the Guazamota, Bolanos and Juchipila in the west, the last three being tributaries of the Rio Grande de Santiago.
Flora
There are forest of
pines and
evergreens in the sierras; in the valleys and plains there is a great abundance of
mesquite,
maguey,
cactus, agave, pastures, Acacia farnesiana var. farnesiana, and many other semi-desertic plants.
Fauna
In the sierras there are many wild boar,
white-tailed deer and hares; in the valleys and plains it is common to find
coyote,
badgers,
quails and
ducks.
Economy
The agricultural products are cereals, sugar and
maguey, the first being dependent on the rainfall, often failing altogether, the second on irrigation in the lower valleys, and the latter doing best in a dry climate on a calcareous soil with water not far beneath the surface. There is also a considerable production of peaches,
apricots and
grapes, the last being made into
wine. A few
cattle are raised, and considerable attention is given to the rearing of
sheep,
goats and swine. A natural product is guayule, a shrub from which
rubber is extracted.
The chief industry of Zacatecas, however, is
mining for
silver, gold, Mercury (element), copper, iron,
zinc, lead,
bismuth,
antimony and
Sodium chloride. Its
mineral wealth was discovered soon after the conquest, and some of its mines are among the most famous of Mexico, dating from 1546. One of the most productive of its silver mines, the Alvarado, has records which show a production of nearly $800,000,000 in silver between 1548 and 1867. Thanks to Zacatecas and its mines, Mexico has been the largest producer of silver in the world.
The state is traversed by the Mexican Central and the Mexican National railways. Its manufactures are limited chiefly to the reduction of mineral ores, the extraction of rubber from
guayule, the making of sugar, rum,
mezcal, pulque,
wool and
cotton fabrics, and some minor industries of the capital.
Demographics
The state of Zacatecas has a population of 1,441,734 inhabitants. It has more than tripled in a century, in 1900 its population was 462,190. About 75% of the population is
mestizo and 25% is Caucasian race. In the year 2000, Zacatecas had the smallest indigenous population percentage-wise in Mexico: 0.3%. Only the state of Aguascalientes has a smaller number of indigenous people, numbering 3,472; Zacatecas has 4,039 indigenous people.In the last ten years, Zacatecas' population has grown a mere 6%, well below the country's average growth of 20%. . It is estimated that half of the people from Zacatecas do not reside in the state. The biggest concentration of Zacatecanos outside Mexico is in the United States, with a population of approximately 800,000-1,000,000, almost as many people as in the state itself. Most are concentrated in cities such as,
Chicago, Denver,
Dallas, Houston,
Los Angeles and
Phoenix, Arizona. It fact, there are more
Zacatecanos living in the
Los Angeles area than in the city of Zacatecas itself.
Cities
The largest city in terms of population in the state of Zacatecas is Fresnillo, with a population of 183,236 (2005). It is followed by the state capital of Zacatecas, Zacatecas with a population of 118,562 (2005). Next is Sombrerete with 61,652.
Image:Presidencia puri.jpg|
FresnilloImage:SanFranciscoZacatecas.jpg|Zacatecas, ZacatecasImage:San Francisco.jpg|
Sombrerete, ZacatecasImage:Jerez0002.jpg|Jerez de García SalinasImage:Tlaltenango.jpg|
Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román
Touristic cities
The state had touristic cities like:
Zacatecas, Zacatecas,
Sombrerete, and
Jerez de García Salinas, and places like Sierra de Organos, Sierra de Cardos, Altavista. Arriba fresnillo.
- Zacatecas: The colonial center of this city is a UNESCO World Heritage site and features elaborately decorated buildings, cobblestoned streets, and wrought-iron lanterns.
- Sombrerete: Colonial city established in 1555 as a village, actually is a small city, is the fifth most important in the state, and consider the second most beautiful city in the state. The city features old and beautiful churches built in the New Spain Era, decorated and old buildings. The municipality had touristic forests, and Sierra de Organos, famous place in the world for filmed western movies.
- Jerez de Garcia Salinas: City near of Zacatecas City, had colonial buildings and the Parroquial Church, known internacionally by Lopez Velarde a writer born in that city.
Government
The current governor of Zacatecas is
Amalia García (
Party of the Democratic Revolution) who will end her 6 year term in 2010 after winning the election of 2004. She became the first female governor on September 12, 2004. The state is represented by three representatives in the
Senate of Mexico: Mejía Haro Antonio (Party of the Democratic Revolution),
Tomás Torres Mercado (
Party of the Democratic Revolution) and José Isabel Trejo Reyes (
National Action Party (Mexico)). Zacatecas also has 9 representatives in the
Chamber of Deputies of Mexico: 9 of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, 3 of the National Action Party (Mexico) and 1 of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico.
Administrative divisions
See: municipalities of Zacatecas.Zacatecas is subdivided into 58 municipalities
(Municipality).
Municipality of Mazapil by far is the largest municipality in the state, occupying about 16% of the area of the state. The Municipality of Momax is the smallest one in area with only 164.538 km².
Major communities
Notable people
- Antonio Aguilar, singer, actor
- Cynthia Klitbo, actress
- Pepe Aguilar, singer
- Rebecca de Alba, model
- Susana González, actress
- Don Juan de Oñate, Mexican-born conquistador of Spanish parents
- Manuel María Ponce, composer
- Los Acuario de México, music group
- Los Temerarios, music group
- Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet of the 19th Century, poet of "La Suave Patria"
- Florinda Meza, actress
External links
- Zacatecas state government
- Zacatecas Web Portal
- Towns, cities, and postal codes in Zacatecas
