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Guadalajara (/ ˌ ɡ w ɑː d əl ə ˈ h ɑːr ə / GWAH-də-lə-HAR-ə, Spanish: [ɡwaðalaˈxaɾa] ⓘ) is a city in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco.According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 7th most populous city in Mexico, while the Guadalajara metropolitan area has a population of 5,268,642 people, making it the ...
Time in Mexico. Mexico uses four time zones: [1] [2] UTC−08:00: Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone), comprising the state of Baja California. Some municipalities near the U.S. border [a] [b] [c] and the entire state of Baja California observe daylight saving time, setting the time forward one hour on the second Sunday of March at 2:00 and back one ...
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. Places that use: Eastern Standard Time (EST), when observing standard time (autumn/winter), are five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00).
e. 1542 – February 14: Guadalajara founded in New Spain. [1] 1560. Town becomes capital of Nueva Galicia province. [2] Royal Audiencia of Guadalajara relocated to Guadalajara from Compostela. 1591 – Jesuit college founded. [citation needed] 1618 – Guadalajara Cathedral built.
The Guadalajara metropolitan area (officially, in Spanish: Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara) [2] is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the third largest in the country after Greater Mexico City and Monterrey. It includes the core municipality of Guadalajara and the surrounding municipalities of Zapopan ...
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.It covers 1,972,550 km 2 (761,610 sq mi), making it the world's 13th-largest country by area; with a population of almost 130 million, it is the 10th-most-populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country.
Website. (in Spanish) Municipal official site. Zapopan ( Spanish pronunciation: [saˈpopan]) is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, the population of Zapopan city proper makes it the second largest city in the state, very close behind the population of Guadalajara proper.
History. It was inaugurated on March 1, 1951, by then-president of Mexico, Miguel Alemán Valdés, and the governor of the state of Jalisco, José de Jesús González Gallo. [4] The airport is named after Miguel Hidalgo, leader of the Mexican War of Independence . On May 24, 1993, the airport parking lot was the scene of a deadly firefight ...