17 Facts About Durango

Durango, officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango, is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in the northwest of the country.

The capital city, Victoria de Durango, is named after the first President of Mexico, Guadalupe Victoria.

Durango is landlocked, bordered by Chihuahua, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Nayarit and Sinaloa.

Images of the animal appear drawn or etched into a variety of objects, but since the 1980s, the city of Durango has promoted souvenirs which have real dead scorpions encased in plastic.

Durango composed works with patriotic themes such as Cuauhtemoc, Corazon Latino and Danza Yaqui.

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Durango sits on a corridor that linked central Mexico with the northwest.

Durango was the center of a colonial entity called Nuevo Vizcaya or sometimes Mexico del Norte .

The next expedition into the area occurred in 1552 under Gines Vazques de Mercado, arriving to where the city of Durango is, naming the area the Guadiana Valley after an area in Spain with a similar environment.

Durango divided the new territory into six provinces: Guadiana, Copala, Maloya, Chiametla, Sinaloa and Santa Barbara, naming a head of government for each.

The name Durango comes from Ibarra's hometown for some time the city was called Durango and Guadiana interchangeably.

Durango constructed the second major palatial residence of the city of Durango.

The Durango Cathedral has one of the larger collections of 18th-century cathedral music in the America, roughly comparable to those in Oaxaca and Bogota, but smaller than that of Mexico City.

However, the city of Durango remained the political center of the state as well as the regional commercial center for agricultural and handcrafted products.

Durango was one of the areas active during the Mexican Revolution.

The most important leg of this highway for Durango is that which connects it from the capital to Mazatlan, Sinaloa.

Durango has historically been an area associated with banditry and smuggling.

Durango is part of the "golden triangle" of Mexico's drug trade.