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Durango:
Durango
State is located on the north end of the inner zone of
Mexico. Its territory is between the 22º 24' and 26º
50' north latitude and 102º 25' and 107º 08' 50'' west
longitude of the Greenwich meridian.
In
Durango State the largest distance from north to south
is of 250 Km. and from west to east is 480 km. and a
population of approximately 1'448,661 inhabitants.
The
Tropic of Cancer go through near the Villa del Mezquital,
leaving behind to the south portion of the Sierra Madre
and the meridian 105º, that is the hour limit. To 40
kilometers at west of the capital and longitudinally by
the Llano de Guatimape.
Durango
State bounded on the north by the State
of Chihuahua; on the northeast
by the State
of Coahuila, on the southeast
by the State
of Zacatecas, on the south by
the State
of Nayarit and the Sate
of Jalisco; and on the west
with the State
of Sinaloa.
The
total area of Durango State is of 119,648 km2
(46,196 mile2), for it size it has the fourth
place on Mexico.
The
word Durango has a Basque origin, it means "Fertile
lowland bathed by rivers surrounded by elevations or
mountains".
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