Zacatecas Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas | |
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Motto(s): Labor Vincit Omnia (Wirk Conquers Aw) | |
Anthem: Marcha de Zacatecas | |
![]() State o Zacatecas athin Mexico | |
Coordinates: 23°17′34″N 102°42′02″W / 23.29278°N 102.70056°W | |
Kintra | Mexico |
Caipital | Zacatecas |
Lairgest Ceety | Fresnillo |
Municipalities | 58 |
Admission | December 23, 1823[1] |
Order | 10t |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenor | David Monreal Ávila ![]() |
• Senators[2] | Tomás Torres Mercado ![]() Antonio Mejía Haro ![]() José Trejo Reyes ![]() |
• Deputies[3] | Federal Deputies
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Area | |
• Total | 75539 km2 (29,166 sq mi) |
Ranked 8t | |
Highest elevation | 3200 m (10,500 ft) |
Population (2010)[6] | |
• Total | 1,490,668 |
• Rank | 25t |
• Density | 20/km2 (51/sq mi) |
• Density rank | 25t |
Demonym(s) | Zacatecano (a) |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
Postal code | 98, 99 |
Aurie code | Area codes 1 and 2
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ISO 3166 code | MX-ZAC |
HDI | ![]() |
GDP | US$ 5,171,913.8 th[a] |
Website | Official Web Site |
^ a. The state's GDP wis 66,200,496 thoosan o pesos in 2008,[6] amoont correspondin tae 5,171,913.8 thoosan o dollars, a dollar bein wirth 12.80 pesos (value o 3 Juin 2010).[7] |
Zacatecas ([sakaˈtekas]) offeecially Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas (Scots: Free an Sovereign State o Zacatecas) is ane o the 31 states that, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. It is dividit in 58 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Zacatecas.
It is locatit in North-Central Mexico. It mairches the states o Durango norwastlins, Coahuila norlins, Nayarit wastlins, San Luis Potosí an Nuevo León eastlins, an Jalisco, Guanajuato an Aguascalientes soothlins.
The state o Zacatecas is best kent for its rich deposits o siller an ither minerals, its colonial airchitectur an its importance in the Mexican Revolution. Its main economic activities is minin, agricultur an tourism.
"Zacatecas" is the Nahuatl-derivit name for ane o the indigenous fowks wha inhabitit the region afore the income o the Spaingie. The name ultimately haes its springheid in the Nahuatl wird for a kin o grass common in the region, zacatl. The region whaur this grass grew wis oreeginally cried Zacatlan, an its inhabitants, Zacateca, pluralizit in Mexican Spaingie tae Zacatecas.
Asides the Zacatecas, the Caxcan, Guachichil, an Tepehuan wur forbye reportit bi the Spaingie tae be wonin the region that comprises the modren state o Zacatecas.