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Jalisco is a state in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
. The capital of Jalisco is the city of Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco

Guadalajara is the capital city of the Mexico state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of the state and in the western-Pacific area of Mexico....
. In the 2005 census, Jalisco had a population of 6,752,113 people. Jalisco is known for being the birthplace of mariachi
Mariachi

Mariachi is a type of musical group, originally from Cocula, Jalisco, Mexico. Usually a mariachi consists of at least three violins, two trumpets, one Mexican guitar, one Mexican vihuela one guitarr?n and occasionally a harp....
 music and the home of tequila
Tequila

Tequila is an blue agave distilled beverage made primarily in the area surrounding Tequila, Jalisco, in the northwest of Guadalajara, Jalisco and in the highlands of the western Mexican state of Jalisco....
.

state's name, meaning "sandy plain," derives from the Nahuatl
Nahuatl language

Nahuatl is a group of related languages and dialects of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.Collectively they are spoken by an estimated Nahua peoples, most of whom live in Central Mexico....
 words xalli (meaning "sand" or "gravel") and ixtli (meaning "face," or, by extension, "plain") with the suffix -co (place).

state of Jalisco borders the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
 to the west, and the states
States of Mexico

The Mexico are a federation made up of thirty-one "free and sovereign states". These states constitute one federated State or Union. The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the Mexico City, a territory which does not belong to any state but to all, as well as the islands, atolls and reefs that do not belong to any stat...
 of Nayarit
Nayarit

Nayarit is one of Political divisions of Mexico and is located on the central west coast, bordering the Pacific Ocean. Nayarit is surrounded by the states of Sinaloa to the northwest, Durango to the north, Zacatecas to the northeast and Jalisco to the south with the Pacific Ocean bordering it to the west....
 to the northwest, Zacatecas
Zacatecas

Zacatecas States of Mexico of Mexico is located in the north-central region and it is bounded to the northwest by Durango, to the north by Coahuila, to the east by San Luis Potos?, to the south by Aguascalientes and Guanajuato and to the southwest by Jalisco and Nayarit....
 and Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes

Aguascalientes is a States of Mexico of Mexico, situated in the center of the country. The name means "hot waters" in Spanish language and originated from the abundance of hot springs in the area, thus the corresponding adjective for the state and its inhabitants is the whimsical demonym hidroc?lido ....
 to the north, Guanajuato
Guanajuato

Guanajuato is a state in the central highlands of Mexico. It is named after its capital city, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, which comes from the local indigenous P'urh?pecha language, meaning "Hill of Frogs"....
 to the east, and Colima
Colima

Colima is a state in western Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima, Colima.Colima is a small state, sharing a border with the Mexican states of Jalisco to the north and east, and Michoac?n to the south....
 and Michoacán
Michoacán

Michoac?n formally Michoac?n de Ocampo , is one of the 31 constituent States of Mexico of Mexico. It borders the states of Colima and Jalisco to the west, Guanajuato and Quer?taro to the north, Mexico to the east, Guerrero to the south-east, and the Pacific Ocean to the south....
 to the south.






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Jalisco is a state in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
. The capital of Jalisco is the city of Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco

Guadalajara is the capital city of the Mexico state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of the state and in the western-Pacific area of Mexico....
. In the 2005 census, Jalisco had a population of 6,752,113 people. Jalisco is known for being the birthplace of mariachi
Mariachi

Mariachi is a type of musical group, originally from Cocula, Jalisco, Mexico. Usually a mariachi consists of at least three violins, two trumpets, one Mexican guitar, one Mexican vihuela one guitarr?n and occasionally a harp....
 music and the home of tequila
Tequila

Tequila is an blue agave distilled beverage made primarily in the area surrounding Tequila, Jalisco, in the northwest of Guadalajara, Jalisco and in the highlands of the western Mexican state of Jalisco....
.

Etymology

The state's name, meaning "sandy plain," derives from the Nahuatl
Nahuatl language

Nahuatl is a group of related languages and dialects of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.Collectively they are spoken by an estimated Nahua peoples, most of whom live in Central Mexico....
 words xalli (meaning "sand" or "gravel") and ixtli (meaning "face," or, by extension, "plain") with the suffix -co (place).

Geography

The state of Jalisco borders the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
 to the west, and the states
States of Mexico

The Mexico are a federation made up of thirty-one "free and sovereign states". These states constitute one federated State or Union. The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the Mexico City, a territory which does not belong to any state but to all, as well as the islands, atolls and reefs that do not belong to any stat...
 of Nayarit
Nayarit

Nayarit is one of Political divisions of Mexico and is located on the central west coast, bordering the Pacific Ocean. Nayarit is surrounded by the states of Sinaloa to the northwest, Durango to the north, Zacatecas to the northeast and Jalisco to the south with the Pacific Ocean bordering it to the west....
 to the northwest, Zacatecas
Zacatecas

Zacatecas States of Mexico of Mexico is located in the north-central region and it is bounded to the northwest by Durango, to the north by Coahuila, to the east by San Luis Potos?, to the south by Aguascalientes and Guanajuato and to the southwest by Jalisco and Nayarit....
 and Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes

Aguascalientes is a States of Mexico of Mexico, situated in the center of the country. The name means "hot waters" in Spanish language and originated from the abundance of hot springs in the area, thus the corresponding adjective for the state and its inhabitants is the whimsical demonym hidroc?lido ....
 to the north, Guanajuato
Guanajuato

Guanajuato is a state in the central highlands of Mexico. It is named after its capital city, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, which comes from the local indigenous P'urh?pecha language, meaning "Hill of Frogs"....
 to the east, and Colima
Colima

Colima is a state in western Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima, Colima.Colima is a small state, sharing a border with the Mexican states of Jalisco to the north and east, and Michoac?n to the south....
 and Michoacán
Michoacán

Michoac?n formally Michoac?n de Ocampo , is one of the 31 constituent States of Mexico of Mexico. It borders the states of Colima and Jalisco to the west, Guanajuato and Quer?taro to the north, Mexico to the east, Guerrero to the south-east, and the Pacific Ocean to the south....
 to the south. It has an area of .

Mexico's largest freshwater lake, Lake Chapala
Lake Chapala

Lake Chapala is Mexico's largest freshwater lake. It is centred around , 45 km southeast of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and stands on the border between the States of Mexico of Jalisco and Michoac?n, at 1,524 metres above sea level....
, lies within the boundaries of Jalisco.

Government and politics

The Constitution of the State of Jalisco
Constitution of the State of Jalisco

The Constitution of the State of Jalisco is the document that describes the structure and function of the government of the Jalisco....
 provides that the government
Government

Government is the body within any organization that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws, regulations, or rules. Typically, the government refers to a civil government -- local, provincial, or national -- but commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also administered by governing bodies....
 of Jalisco, like the government of every other state in Mexico, formally consists of three branches: the executive
Executive (government)

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, the legislative
Legislature

Legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to create and change laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law....
 and the judiciary
Judiciary

In law, the judiciary is the system of courts which administer justice in the name of the Sovereignty or state, a mechanism for the dispute resolution....
.

Executive power rests with the Governor of Jalisco
Governor of Jalisco

The following is a list of Governors of the states of Mexico of Jalisco from 1921....
, who is directly elected through secret ballot to a 6-year term, with no possibility of reelection. Legislative power rests with the Congress of Jalisco
Congress of Jalisco

The Congress of the State of Jalisco is the legislative branch of the government of the State of Jalisco. The Congress is the governmental deliberative body of Jalisco, which is equal to, and independent of, the executive ....
 which is a unicameral legislature composed of 40 deputies. 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. Unlike English-language municipalities
Municipality

A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....
, Mexican municipalities (or municipios) include both a central city or town and surrounding villages, towns and rural land. Each municipio has a municipal president
Municipal president

A presidente municipal is the chief of government of municipios in Mexico. The position is comparable to the mayor of a city in the United States although the jurisdiction of a presidente municipal includes not only a city but the municipality surrounding it....
. The largest municipio in Jalisco is Mezquitic
Mezquitic

Mezquitic is a municipality in the north of the state of Jalisco, Mexico.It is bordered to the north east and west by the state of Zacatecas. It also shares its northern border with the municipality of Huejuquilla el Alto and it shares its southern border with the municipalities of Villa Guerrero, Jalisco and Bola?os....
.

The municipalities are grouped into the following regions (regiones):
  • 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 indicated that at that time there were 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

Tequila

Jalisco is the center of the Mexican tequila
Tequila

Tequila is an blue agave distilled beverage made primarily in the area surrounding Tequila, Jalisco, in the northwest of Guadalajara, Jalisco and in the highlands of the western Mexican state of Jalisco....
 industry, and the town of Tequila, Jalisco
Tequila, Jalisco

Tequila is a municipality in the central part of the States of Mexico of Jalisco, Mexico. The municipal seat is the city of Santiago de Tequila, generally called Tequila without further qualification....
, which gave its name to the famous liquor, is located there. 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.

Mariachi

There are many hypotheses about where this lively music originated from, but most people agree that Cocula
Cocula

Cocula is a municipality and town in the Mexico state of Jalisco. It is located 35 miles southwest of Guadalajara, Jalisco, on Mexico Highway 80 ....
, Jalisco was its birth place. Today, Mariachis are seen as a symbol of the Mexican Revolution and as the Mexican pride. Mariachi groups are usually hired for festive occasions, such as birthday parties, quinceañera
Quinceañera

The Quincea?era or Quince a?os is, for Latino and Italian cultures, a girl's celebration of her fifteenth birthday, which is commemorated in a different way from her other birthdays....
 (traditional parties for women who are turning 15 years of age), and weddings.

Huichol people

In the north of Jalisco, the indigeneous Huichol
Huichol

The Huichol or Wix?ritari are an indigenous ethnic group of western central Mexico, living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango....
 people live in towns that are difficult to access due to their relative isolation in mountainous areas. They call themselves wixarica, "The People," in their own language. The name "Huichol" is dervived from the name that was given to them by Nahuatl speakers.

Related to Nahuatl, the Huichol language
Huichol language

The Huichol language is an indigenous language of Mexico which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan languages language family. It is spoken by the ethnic group widely known as the Huichol , whose mountainous territory extends over portions of the States of Mexico of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Durango, mostly in Jalisco....
 belongs to the Coracholan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

See also

  • Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition
    Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition

    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, Nayarit, and, to a lesser extent, Colima to its south, roughly dating to the period between 300 Common Era and 400 Common Era, although there is not wide agreement on this end-date...


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