For the town tortas mexicanas Nayarit, see Xalisco. The state’s GDP was 566,809,524 million pesos in 2008, amount corresponding to 44,281,994.
06 million dollars, being a dollar worth 12. 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 the seventh-largest state in Mexico, accounting for 4. Jalisco is made up of a diverse terrain that includes forests, beaches, plains, and lakes.
Its five natural regions are: Northwestern Plains and Sierras, Sierra Madre Occidental, Central Plateau, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, which covers most of the state, and the Sierra Madre del Sur. Santiago River and its tributaries, rivers that empty directly into the Pacific and rivers in the south of the state. The other main surface water is Lake Chapala, and is the largest and most important freshwater lake in Mexico, accounting for about half of the country’s lake surface. The lake acts as a regulator of the flow of both the Lerma and Santiago Rivers. Jalisco has eight areas under conservation measures totaling 208,653. Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve accounts for sixty percent of all legally protected land at 139,500 hectares. Thirteen plant communities are present in the state.
Forty five to fifty percent of the state is characterized by deciduous and sub-deciduous forests. They occur along the coastal plains as well as in canyons in the central part of the state from sea level to 1600masl. Some areas, scattered within the tropical sub-deciduous forest along the coastal plains, are dominated by palms. Most of the state has a temperate climate with humid summers which are tropical.
There is a distinct rainy season from June to October. The climate can be divided into 29 different zones from hot to cold and from very dry to semi moist. In most of the state, most of the rain falls between February. C and an average precipitation of about 2,000 mm annually. C, and average annual precipitation between 300 and 1,000 mm.
In the highlands of the Sierra de Manantlán, Cacaola, Tepetates and Mascota near the coastal plains there is the most rainfall reaching 1600 mm per year. On October 23, 2015, Jalisco was hit by Hurricane Patricia. This was the second most intense hurricane ever registered and made landfall near Cuixmala, Jalisco. As of 2020, the state population was 8,348,151, the fourth most populated federal entity in Mexico—after the State of Mexico, Mexico City, and Veracruz—with 6.
Despite the fact that the number of children per woman has dropped by more than half from a high of 6. 8 in 1970, the total population has grown from 5,991,175 in 1995 to the present number. One important factor in population growth is migration into the state. About three quarters of these live in the Greater Guadalajara area.
The state ranks third in socioeconomic factors. As of 2010, there were 1,801,306 housing units in the state. There is also emigration from the state, mostly to the United States. Jalisco is ranked seventh in Mexico for the number of people who leave for the United States.
As of 2000, 27 of every 1000 residents lived in the United States, higher than the national average of 16 per 1000. The Huichols are concentrated in the municipalities of Mezquitic and Bolaños in the north of the state. In this same area are four of this ethnicity’s most important ceremonial centers, San Andrés Cohamiata, Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán, San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán and Tuxpan de Bolaños. The fifth, Guadalupe Octán, is in Nayarit. Another distinct group living in the state is foreign temporary residents or expats, the overwhelming majority of which are from the United States and Canada, concentrated in and around the small town of Ajijic by Lake Chapala. According to the 2020 Census, 1. Jalisco’s population identified as Black, Afro-Mexican, or of African descent.