Nayarit

Nayarit is a Mexican state located on the Pacific coast. It was founded in 1917; the area of ​​today's state introduced previously, since 1885, the Military District of Tepic dar. It has about 900,000 inhabitants to 26,979 km ². In the capital, Tepic 500,000 inhabitants. The name comes from the Tepic Indian language of the region, meaning " place between mountains ". It lies between Sinaloa and Jalisco, has one of the Nayarit to 1885. In this state is located the small swamp settlement Mexcaltitlán, which is sometimes considered to be the original homeland of the Aztecs.

At this state includes the Tres Marias Islands.

History

The conquistador Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán began in December 1529 his campaign of conquest against the peoples in the western New Spain. He also subdued Nayarit. The poor treatment of the native Indians broke in the spring of 1540 in Tepic, the capital of present-day state, the Mixton - war. He widened as a rebellion against the Spanish colonial power in other regions of Mexico from.

Structure

Nayarit is divided into 20 municipios:

  • Acaponeta
  • Ahuacatlan
  • Amatlán de Cañas
  • Bahía de Banderas
  • Compostela
  • El Nayar
  • Huajicori
  • Ixtlán del Río
  • Jala
  • La Yesca
  • Rosamorada
  • Ruiz
  • San Blas
  • San Pedro Lagunillas
  • Santa María del Oro
  • Santiago Ixcuintla
  • Tecuala
  • Tepic
  • Tuxpan
  • Xalisco
Ranked list of Mexican states Governor Colonial empire Ruiz, Nayarit Aguascalientes Baja California Baja California Sur Campeche Chiapas Chihuahua (state) Coahuila Colima Durango Guanajuato Guerrero Hidalgo (state) Morelos
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