Zacatecas

Zacatecas () offeecially Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas () is ane o the 31 states that, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. It is dividit in 58 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Zacatecas.

It is locatit in North-Central Mexico. It mairches the states o Durango norwastlins, Coahuila norlins, Nayarit wastlins, San Luis Potosí an Nuevo León eastlins, an Jalisco, Guanajuato an Aguascalientes soothlins.

The state o Zacatecas is best kent for its rich deposits o siller an ither minerals, its colonial airchitectur an its importance in the Mexican Revolution. Its main economic activities is minin, agricultur an tourism.

 Etymology 
"Zacatecas" is the Nahuatl-derivit name for ane o the indigenous fowks wha inhabitit the region afore the income o the Spaingie.  The name ultimately haes its springheid in the Nahuatl wird for a kin o grass common in the region, zacatl.  The region whaur this grass grew wis oreeginally cried Zacatlan, an its inhabitants, Zacateca, pluralizit in Mexican Spaingie tae Zacatecas.

Asides the Zacatecas, the Caxcan, Guachichil, an Tepehuan wur forbye reportit bi the Spaingie tae be wonin the region that comprises the modren state o Zacatecas.

Notes

References
 C. Michael Hogan (2009) Elephant Tree: Bursera microphylla, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg



 External links 

 Portal wi News an Information about Zacatecas 
 Zacatecas state govrenment wabsteid 



Category:States o Mexico
Category:States an territories established in 1823