20 Facts About Jalisco

Jalisco is divided into 125 municipalities, and its capital and largest city is Guadalajara.

Jalisco is one of the most economically and culturally important states in Mexico, owing to its natural resources as well as its long history and culture.

Jalisco is made up of a diverse terrain that includes forests, beaches, plains, and lakes.

The Jalisco area contains all five of Mexico's natural ecosystems: arid and semi arid scrublands, tropical evergreen forests, tropical deciduous and thorn forests, grasslands and mesquite grasslands, and temperate forests with oaks, pines and firs.

Jalisco has eight areas under conservation measures totaling 208, 653.

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Los Altos de Jalisco region has a number of microclimates due to the rugged terrain.

Jalisco is ranked seventh in Mexico for the number of people who leave for the United States.

The nickname for people from Jalisco, "tapatio", derives from the Nahuatl word tapatiotl; Franciscan Alonso de Molina wrote that it referred specifically to "the price of something purchased.

Over its history, the Jalisco area has been occupied by a variety of ethnicities including the Bapames, Caxcans, Cocas, Guachilchils, Huichols, Cuyutecos, Otomis, Nahuas, Tecuexes, Tepehuans, Tecos, Purepecha, Pinomes, Tzaultecas and Xilotlantzingas.

Province of Jalisco was separated from Michoacan in 1607 with the name of Santiago.

On 21 February 2021, the number of infections from the COVID-19 pandemic in Jalisco that began in March 2020 reached 217, 852, and 10, 031 people had died.

Jalisco's coast includes other beaches such as Careyes, Melaque and Tamarindo along with world-famous Puerto Vallarta.

Idiom "Jalisco is Mexico" refers to how many of the things which are typically associated with Mexico have their origins in Jalisco.

Some traditional ones from Jalisco include El Son de la Madrugada, El Son de las Alanzas, El Son del la Negra and El Son de las Copetonas.

Traditional ranch style clothing of Jalisco is an imitation of Spanish dress that the women of the court wore.

Jalisco is home to three highly venerated images of the Virgin Mary which were created in the 16th century and referred to as "sisters.

Jalisco earns just under six percent of Mexico foreign earnings from tourism and employment from the various multinational corporations located in the state, exporting more than $5 billion annually to 81 countries and ranks first among the states in agribusiness, computers and the manufacturing of jewelry.

The tequila-producing area of Jalisco is a tourist attraction, with more than seventeen million visitors each year, with an estimated value of over ten million pesos per year.

Jalisco is the leader in Mexico by volume, quality and diversity of the produced exported which total more than 100 million dollars annually.

Jalisco has a total number of schools of 20, 946, with 304 institutions of higher education.