Jalisco

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Jalisco

Location

Statistics
Capital	Guadalajara
Area	79,085 km² Ranked 6th
Population (2005 census)	6,752,113 Ranked 4th
HDI (2004)	0.8007 - high Ranked 13th
Governor	Gerardo Octavio Solís Gómez (acting) (PAN)
Federal Deputies	PAN: 18 PRI: 1
Federal Senators	PAN: 2 PRI: 1
ISO 3166-2 Postal abbr.	MX-JAL Jal.

Jalisco is one of states of the United Mexican States (Mexico). Jalisco has an area of about 79,085 km² or 30,535 square miles (some municipalities are currently being disputed with neighboring states).

Jalisco borders the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the states of Nayarit to the north west, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí to the north, Guanajuato to the east, and Colima and Michoacán to the south. In 2003 Jalisco had an estimated population of 6,487,000 people.

The capital of Jalisco is the city of Guadalajara. Within Jalisco are included the cities of Chapala, Ciudad Guzmán, Talpa de Allende, Tepatitlan, and Puerto Vallarta. Guadalajara and the surrounding municipalities of Tonalá, Tlaquepaque, Tlajomulco, and Zapopan make up the Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone or Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara.

Most of Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest freshwater lake, lies within the boundaries of Jalisco.

Jalisco is known for being the birthplace of Mariachi music, Tequila, Vicente Fernandez, and Carlos Santana.

[edit] Demographics

Jalisco's population is mainly Mestizo. It also has one of the largest communities of Europeans/ Whites in Mexico, many of them are Spaniards, French, Italian, Germans. There is also large communities of Slavic peoples & Eastern Europeans, mainly in Guadalajara.