Hidalgo | |
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Estado Libre y Soberano de Hidalgo | |
![]() State o Hidalgo athin Mexico | |
Coordinates: 20°28′42″N 98°51′49″W / 20.47833°N 98.86361°W | |
Kintra | Mexico |
Caipital | Pachuca de Soto |
Lairgest Ceety | Pachuca de Soto |
Municipalities | 84 |
Admission | 16 Januar 1869[1] |
Order | 26t |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenor | Francisco Olvera (![]() |
• Senators[2] | Jesús Murillo Karam ![]() José Guadarrama ![]() Francisco X. Berganza |
• Deputies[3] | Federal Deputies
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Area | |
• Total | 20846 km2 (8,049 sq mi) |
Ranked 26t | |
Highest elevation | 3350 m (10,990 ft) |
Population (2010)[6] | |
• Total | 2,665,018 |
• Rank | 17t |
• Density | 130/km2 (330/sq mi) |
• Density rank | 8t |
Demonym(s) | Hidalguense |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
Postal code | 42-43 |
Aurie code | Aurie codes 1, 2 an 3
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ISO 3166 code | MX-HGO |
HDI | ![]() |
GDP | US$ 9,987,649.06 mil[a] |
Website | Official Web Site |
^ a. The state's GDP wis 127,841,908 million o pesos in 2008,[7] amoont correspondin tae 9,987,649.06 millon o dollars, being a dollar worth 12.80 pesos (value o 3 Juin 2010).[8] |
Hidalgo (Spaingie pronunciation: [iˈðalɣo]), offeecially Free an sovereign State o Hidalgo (Spaingie: Estado Libre y Soberano de Hidalgo), is ane o the 31 states that, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. It is dividit in 84 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Pachuca de Soto.
In 1869, Benito Juárez creatit the State o Hidalgo. He appointit the ceety o Pachuca as caipital o the state an addit the name "de Soto" tae it for the kennin o Manuel Fernando Soto, wha is considered the maist important drivin force in creatin the state.[9] The state wis namit efter Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the initiator o the Mexican War o Unthirldom.
It is locatit in Eastren Mexico.[10] Hidalgo haes mairches bi San Luis Potosí an Veracruz norlins, Puebla eastlins, Tlaxcala an México soothlins an Querétaro wastlins.[11]
The state haes a nummer o relatively intact native culturs like the Otomi. There twa notable immigrant culturs an aw, thaim that is the descendents o Cornish miners in the 19t hunneryear[12] an a sma Jewish enclave that claims tae be descendit frae Sephardi Jews that came tae New Spain in the 16t hunneryear.[13]
The state contains a nummer o ecotourism, cultural an aircheological attractions includin the Huasteca aurie, the ruins o Tula, naitural het watter springs, auld haciendas an muntain ranges.
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Wikisource haes the text o a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica airticle about Hidalgo. |