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Tepic (Spanish pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality.. Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of 915 metres (3,002 ft) above sea level, on the banks of the Río Mololoa and the Río Tepic, approximately 225 kilometres (140 mi) north-west of Guadalajara, Jalisco.
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The Tepic Territory was created, by decree of President Manuel González Flores, on 12 December 1884.Its first political leader was General Leopoldo Romano. During his government, and that of his successor, Pablo Rocha y Portú (1897–1904), great industrial and agricultural advances were recorded.
The Municipality of Tepic is one of the 20 municipalities dividing the Mexican state of Nayarit, being the most populous and most densely populated municipality in Nayarit; its head city (the seat of the municipal government), the city of Tepic, is also the capital of the state.
Nayarit covers 27,815 square kilometers (10,739 sq mi), making it one of the smaller states in Mexico. [16] Nayarit is located between latitude lines 23°05' north and 20°36' south and longitude lines 103°43' east and 105°46' west. [17] Its terrain is broken up by the western ends of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains.
Ixtlán del Rio is an archaeological site located in the Ixtlán del Rio municipality, on the south west region of the Mexican state of Nayarit.It is also known as "Los Toriles" and contains the only vestiges of the western cultures in Nayarit.
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