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Durango, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Durango, [b] is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in the northwest portion of the country. With a population of 1,832,650, the 8th lowest of Mexico's states, Durango has Mexico's second-lowest population density, after Baja California Sur .
[4] [1] [5] The city's official name is Victoria de Durango, renamed in honor of the first president of Mexico, Guadalupe Victoria, a native of the state of Durango. The city is at an altitude of 1,890 m (6,201 ft) in the Valley of Guadiana. Durango was founded on 8 July 1563, by the Spanish explorer Francisco de Ibarra.
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of Mexico. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height on the summit above a geodetic sea level. [2] The first table below ranks the 40 highest major summits of México by elevation.
According to the 2020 Mexican census, Durango is the 25th most populous state with 1,832,650 inhabitants, but the 4th largest by land area spanning 123,575.36 square kilometres (47,712.71 sq mi). [1] [2] Durango has a population density of 14.8/km 2 (38.4/sq mi), making it Mexico's second-lowest dense state, after Baja California Sur. [1] [2]
This polygon is located in the north-central part of Mexico, between the parallels 24° 22' and 26° 23' North and meridians 102° 22' and 104° 47' West in the southernmost part of the Bolsón de Mapimí. The average altitude of the region is of 1,139 meters (3,737 ft).
As of 2020, the city of Santiago Papasquiaro had a population of 30,063. [2] Other than the city of Santiago Papasquiaro, the municipality had 416 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Ciénega de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (2,532), and José María Morelos (Chinacates) (1,521), classified as rural.
Canelas is a town and seat of the municipality of Canelas, in the state of Durango, northwestern Mexico. [1] Canelas is also known for its fantastic Coffee & Guava and a wedding that took place, that of the famous Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera and Emma Coronel Aispuro. Reports indicate that this wedding took place in 2007 in Canelas. [2]
El Salto is a city and seat of the municipality of Pueblo Nuevo in the southwestern part of the Mexican state of Durango.In 2015, the town had a total population of 24,241, [1] Situated on a pine-forested plateau about 2,580 meters (8,464 feet) above sea level in the Sierra Madre mountain range, the town is home to a large lumber industry.