The shape and size and of the state of Jalisco are represented by the characteristics that the state possesses in relation to the political and territorial division, the relief and the surface.
The state of Jalisco is located in the western part of the Mexican country. Its geographical limits are: to the north with Zacatecas and Aguascalientes; to the south with Colima; to the northwest with Nayarit; to the northeast with Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí; to the southeast with Michoacán and to the southwest with the Pacific Ocean.
The strange shape of its territory is due to the fact that it encompasses and limits part of three great physiographic provinces that make up the Republic of Mexico. These provinces are the Sierra Madre Central, the Neovolcanic axis and Mesa Central.
Shape of the state of Jalisco
Relief
In the relief of Jalisco you can find mountain ranges, hills, canyons, plains and narrow valleys. The canyons can reach 400 masl (meters above sea level), as one of the lowest points.
The most significant elevations in the state are as follows:
Cerro Gordo at 2670 masl (meters above sea level)
Sierra el Tigre at 2840 masl
Sierra de Manantlán at 2840 masl
Sierra Alta at 2850 masl
Sierra Huichola at 2860 masl
Cerro Viejo at 2880 masl
Tequila Volcano at 2940 masl
Sierra de Tapalpa at 2960 masl
Colima volcano at 3820 masl
Nevado de Colima at 4260 masl
Size of the state of Jalisco
This state has a land area of 80,137 square kilometers. It covers 7% of the total size of Mexico.
The population of the state of Jalisco, according to INEGI data in the 2010 census, is 7,844,830 inhabitants. Which places it as the fourth with the largest population in the country.
The territorial political division of the state is 125 municipalities. These are:
Acatic
Acatlán de Juárez
Market Ahualulco
Amacueca
Amatitan
Ameca
Arandas
Atemajac de Brizuela
Atengo
Atenguillo
Atotonilco el Alto
Atoyac
Autlán de Navarro
Ayotlan
Ayutla
Bolaños
Cape Corrientes
Cañadas de Obregón
Casimiro Castillo
Chapala
Chimaltitán
Chiquilistlán
Cihuatlan
Cocula
Colotlan
Conception of Buenos Aires
Cuautitlán de García Barragán
Cuautla
Cuquío
Slaughtered
Ejutla
El Arenal
The Grullo
The lemon
The jump
Incarnation of Diaz
Etzatlan
Gomez Farias
Guachinango
Guadalajara
Hostotipaquillo
Huejúcar
Huejuquilla el Alto
Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos
Ixtlahuacán del Río
Jalostotitlan
Jamay
Jesus Maria
Jilotlán de los Dolores
Jocotepec
Juanacatlan
Juchitlan
The boat
The Huerta
The Chamomile of Peace
Moreno Lakes
Magdalena
Pet
Mazamitla
Mexticacan
Mezquitic
Mixtlan
Ocotlan
Ojuelos de Jalisco
Pihuamo
Poncitlan
Vallarta Port
Quitupan
San Cristóbal de la Barranca
San Diego of Alexandria
Saint Gabriel
San Ignacio Cerro Gordo
San Juan de Los Lagos
San Juanito de Escobedo
Saint julian
San Marcos
San Martin de Bolaños
San Martin Hidalgo
San Miguel el Alto
San Pedro Tlaquepaque
San Sebastian del Oeste
Saint Mary of the Angels
Santa Maria del Oro
Sayula
Felling
Talpa de Allende
Gordian Tamazula
Tapalpa
Tecalitlán
Techaluta from Montenegro
Tecolotlan
Tenamaxtlan
Teocaltiche
Teocuitatlán de Corona
Tepatitlán de Morelos
Tequila
Teuchitlan
Tizapan el Alto
Tlajomulco de Zúñiga
Toliman
Tomatlan
Tonala
Tonaya
Tonila
Totatiche
Tototlan
Tuxcacuesco
Tuxcueca
Tuxpan
Union of San Antonio
Union of Tula
Guadalupe Valley
Juárez Valley
Villa Corona
Villa Guerrero
Villa Hidalgo
Villa Purification
Yahualica by González Gallo
Zacoalco de Torres
Zapopan
Zapotiltic
Zapotitlán de Vadillo
Zapotlán del Rey
Zapotlán the Great
Zapotlanejo
Related topics
History of Jalisco.
Jalisco ethnic groups.
Jalisco traditions.
Jalisco flag.
Jalisco Shield.
Jalisco economic activities.
References
- Don M. Coerver, SB (2004). Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History. Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: ABC-CLIO.
- INEGI. (sf). Retrieved on December 23, 2017, from Cuentame.inegi.org.mx
- Platt, LD (1998). Census Records for Latin America and the Hispanic United States. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com.
- Stacy, L. (2002). Mexico and the United States. Pennsylvania: Marshall Cavendish.
- Undersecretary of Mines and Basic Industry, C. d. (1992). Geological-mining Monograph of the State of Jalisco. Mexico: Council of Mineral Resources.