State Hidalgo
Hidalgo (Spaingie pronunciation: ), offeecially Free an sovereign State o Hidalgo (Spaingie: Estado Libre y Soberano de Hidalgo), is ane o the 31 states that, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico.
It is dividit in 84 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Pachuca de Soto.
Hidalgo | |
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| Estado Libre y Soberano de Hidalgo | |
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 State o Hidalgo athin Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 20°28′42″N 98°51′49″W / 20.47833°N 98.86361°W | |
| Kintra | Mexico |
| Caipital | Pachuca de Soto |
| Lairgest Ceety | Pachuca de Soto |
| Municipalities | 84 |
| Admission | 16 Januar 1869 |
| Order | 26t |
| Govrenment | |
| • Govrenor | Francisco Olvera ( ) |
| • Senators | Jesús Murillo Karam .svg){kind=logo} José Guadarrama .svg){kind=logo} Francisco X. Berganza |
| • Deputies | Federal Deputies |
| Area | |
| • Total | 20846 km2 (8,049 sq mi) |
| Ranked 26t | |
| Highest elevation | 3350 m (10,990 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,665,018 |
| • Rank | 17t |
| • Density | 130/km2 (330/sq mi) |
| • Density rank | 8t |
| Demonym(s) | Hidalguense |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
| Postal code | 42-43 |
| Aurie code | Aurie codes 1, 2 an 3 |
| ISO 3166 code | MX-HGO |
| HDI |  0.796 Medium Ranked 27t |
| GDP | US$ 9,987,649.06 mil[a] |
| Website | Official Web Site |
| ^ a. The state's GDP wis 127,841,908 million o pesos in 2008, amoont correspondin tae 9,987,649.06 millon o dollars, being a dollar worth 12.80 pesos (value o 3 Juin 2010). | |
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In 1869, Benito Juárez creatit the State o Hidalgo. He appointit the ceety o Pachuca as caipital o the state an addit the name "de Soto" tae it for the kennin o Manuel Fernando Soto, wha is considered the maist important drivin force in creatin the state. The state wis namit efter Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the initiator o the Mexican War o Unthirldom.
It is locatit in Eastren Mexico. Hidalgo haes mairches bi San Luis Potosí an Veracruz norlins, Puebla eastlins, Tlaxcala an México soothlins an Querétaro wastlins.
The state haes a nummer o relatively intact native culturs like the Otomi. There twa notable immigrant culturs an aw, thaim that is the descendents o Cornish miners in the 19t hunneryear an a sma Jewish enclave that claims tae be descendit frae Sephardi Jews that came tae New Spain in the 16t hunneryear.
The state contains a nummer o ecotourism, cultural an aircheological attractions includin the Huasteca aurie, the ruins o Tula, naitural het watter springs, auld haciendas an muntain ranges.
References
Bibliography
- Jimenez Gonzalez, Victor Manuel, ed. (2010). Hidalgo: Guía para descubrir los encantos del estado (in Spanish). Mexico City: Editorial Océano de Mexico SA de CV. ISBN 978-607-400-319-2. CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
External links
| Wikisource haes the text o a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica airticle about Hidalgo. |
- (in Spaingie) Hidalgo State Government Archived 2012-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Spaingie) Lengua, cultura e historia de los otomíes – Language, culture, and history of the Otomi Archived 2011-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Codices otomi – Otomi codexes in French, English & Spanish
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