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According to the 2020 Mexican census, Guanajuato is the sixth most populous state with 6,166,934 inhabitants and the 22nd largest by land area spanning 30,691.61 square kilometres (11,850.10 sq mi). [1] [2] Municipalities in Guanajuato are administratively autonomous of the state according to the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico ...
Cities and towns in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. According to Article 23 of the Organic Municipal Law of the State of Guanajuato, the state classifies its settlements as follows: Ciudad (city): At least 20,000 inhabitants. Villa (town): At least 7,000 inhabitants. Pueblo (village): At least 2,500 inhabitants.
Salamanca, Guanajuato; Salvatierra, Guanajuato; San Diego de la Unión; San Felipe, Guanajuato; San Francisco del Rincón; San José Iturbide; San Luis de la Paz; San Miguel de Allende (municipality) Santa Catarina, Guanajuato; Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas; Santiago Maravatío; Silao, Guanajuato
The official name of the state is Guanajuato, Estado Libre y Soberano (Guanajuato, Free and Sovereign State). "Guanajuato" comes from Purépecha Quanaxhuato, which has been translated as both "place of frogs" and "places of many hills". The coat of arms of the state is that of the city of Guanajuato, as granted by Carlos I of Spain [25] (r.
This is a list of the Top 100 cities in Mexico by fixed population, according to the 2020 Mexican National Census. [1]According to Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a locality is "any place settled with one or more dwellings, which may or may not be inhabited, and which is known by a name given by law or tradition". [2]
Guanajuato City has reached twin town and sister city agreements with a substantial number of cities for a relatively small city in a Mexican context (123rd largest city in 2015). [71] The most iconic and visible relationship is that with Ashland. [72] The rest of the sister city relationships are comparatively quite inactive. [72]
A part of the Bajío region, [5] the town lies 274 km (170 mi) from Mexico City, 86 km (53 mi) from Querétaro and 97 km (60 mi) from the state capital of Guanajuato. [6] The town's name derives from a 16th-century friar, Juan de San Miguel , and a martyr of Mexican Independence , Ignacio Allende , who was born in a house facing the central plaza.
Silao (Spanish pronunciation:), officially Silao de la Victoria, is a city in the west-central part of the state of Guanajuato in Mexico. It is the seat of the municipality with the same name. As of the 2005 census, the city had a population of 66,485, [1] [2] making it the seventh-largest city in the state. Silao is a center of agricultural ...